Retained this firm approx 8 years ago to help with business litigation. They billed me an exhoribant amount of money totaling over 250K in fee's. Paid most of the bills... Even though I did not agree with them. However, I did not agree with the balance due of over 40K... And opted for arbitration with a firm that Bastian chose called AAA. We scheduled an arbitration/mediation date and Instead of proceeding with mediationand manged to negotiate a settlement with Jim Bastian for a payment of 20K. I sent them $20K just so they would stop threatening me with more lawsuits. Even though they received the check, they did not cancel the mediation and 3 lawyers showed up to AAA and got a default for the full amount against me for over 70K... I was shocked. I thought we had already settled this case days before the mediation. I signed the agreement and sent them a check thinking everthing was done and paid in full. They went to the mediation behind my back and proceeded to get a deafult against me for much more money. They used personal information that I gave them in confidence against me for their own personal gain. Both myself and my new attorney, Walter Weiss were shocked at the lack of ethics used by this firm. They went into court ex parte to get a TRO and froze my bank account even though I was not properly served. This kind of representation is what gives attorney's such a bad name. I paid this firm a ton of money. And they deceived me. I am now forced to spend a ridiculous amount of time and more money to defend this... They know that it doesn't cost them anything but their time to go into court... And I have to retain new counsel just to get some justice. Beware of these guys... They are as nasty as it gets... I know everyone has attorney horror stories... But these guys took it to a new level.
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