I was researching the internet for a bankruptcy lawyer that can handle my request to file a chapter 7 bankruptcy. I found a clean professional looking website and decided to give Litchney Law Firm my information.in response, I went through their process, received a 15-20 minute phone call asking a series of questions from their attorney Lucas Garcia and was led to believe I could trust this lawyer to handle chapter 7 filing efficiently.
Lucas mentioned on the phone, provided you can pay us in full and provide the documents, we can complete your case filing and discharge 100 days from the date you pay us in full. He even mentioned giving me a discount from the original chapter 7 filing fee of $2200 down to $1495 with a $299 court filing fee provided I paid in full before July 20. I sent both cashiers checks and all the documents needed in certified mail on July 14.
From that point on I entrusted Lucas word to handle my case efficiently, and to notify me if theres anything I'm lacking. After the first talk, the next time I spoke with Lucas was in October. I found myself conducting all the follow ups with no responses to a majority of my emails or voice mail messages, and the response from Litchney Law Firm has stayed the same. That my case is being worked on and in some sort of prescedings.
I became disgruntled and upset, by the time I finally spoke to Lucas again in October I requested my refund, and he told me if he was to refund me, that I'd owe more that what I paid for based on the work they put into my case. I have no properties or cars under my name. What I do have is a lot of bad credit and collections from mistakes I made when I was younger, and decided that I wanted a fresh start with no debts. His response to me was that my case would be completed sometime by July because they have huge flow of other cases. I asked him what happened to the 100 days as you mentioned when we first spoke.
I left the case alone, because I wasn't getting anywhere with any responses from the same old answer that Litchney Law Firm phone personnel provided me. That my case is being worked on, but they can't seem to give me an actual status update.
My family told me to pick up the phone, give Litchney Law Firm a call, and see if I can get a response on the status of my chapter 7 filing. Currently, its approaching 10 months on May 15 since I've paid in full. I have sent several emails since Friday April 29 and left two voicemails, and have tried to get in touch with an attorney or the person in charge of my case. My calls seem to be screened, and even if I mentioned I'm going to call the California State Bar Association and report this, my call is still screened from speaking with an attorney. I was told by the their phone clerk Christy that I should expect and email from Justina regarding status of my file, and so far its just an empty promise. After 3 more emails stretching from Apr 29th May 2-3, and two follow up calls on May 3-4, still no response either by email or phone.
I decided to speak and request 2nd opinions from a bankruptcy attorney that helped my parents file their chapter 7. The attorney that helped my parents mentioned that because I have no properties, no cars, and mostly collections under my name, that my case isn't complicated using current software intended to organizing my filing and that it'd typically take at least 3 hours of work to put what I submitted in order.
Lucas from Litchney Law Firm said that its not worth requesting a refund from their firm because I would owe more than what I originally paid based on the amount work per hour. It is approaching 10 months this coming May 15 and I'm still getting the same answer, that Litchney Law Firm is working on my case.
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