I will summarize this the best I can. I retained this attorney Pau Walier in September on 2007 to handle my divorce. A marriage of 3 years. I gave him a retainer of $1500.00 and then continued to pay him monthly at a rate of $350.00 per month or more.
Every court date resulted in no progress. He hadn't even arranged for the return of my personal; property, 10 months! By July the matter was still not resolved and I had enough of his nonsence. I was billed repeatedly for services that were either not provided or for services that I never authorized. He offered me credits but refused to itemize them on his billing statement.
I offen questioned him about his billing practices as I noted early on that he had only recorded one payment I made then never itemized a payment again. My friend made a payment on my behalf on May 30th. I still had a few dollars in credit on my account at that time so the additioanl $500 payme t was a great help if I needed it.
There were no further court appearences between May 30th and July 3rd when I terminted his services. My friend called him for a refund of the $500 and he refused.in fact he told her this was a Ball'sy request and that she will not be receiving any refund as he would use up all the rest of the retainer on billable charges.
This he did. I terminated him on July 3rd and he continued to bill me for nonsence through the entire month of July thus using every nickel I had in retainer. I was told later by another local attorney to watch this guys billing practices as the FBI were also very interested in his craetive accountving techniques.
I have to say that I have worked in credit and financial services for more than 25 years and also handled white collar crime investigations and to be quite honest this guys billing practice is exactly what I would be looking for.
I had retained another attorney locally who has had to clean up alot of Mr. Waliers crap and this attorney helped me. $1250.00 and one court appearence and the divorce was settled! I am presently attempting to recover some of my $5,000.00 by means of Bar Association Arbitration.
Do yourself a favor stay clear of Paul Walier this guy is a nothing but a white collar criminal! Oh and never hire a lawyer off a Billboard!
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