Short story: do not hire him. Benjamin Northcut Gibson III was hired for $5,000 to defend against a lawsuit and to counter-sue. In exchange for $5,000 payment I had to ask for a receipt, which would not have been issued otherwise. He neither offered to...
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Short story: do not hire him. Benjamin Northcut Gibson III was hired for $5,000 to defend against a lawsuit and to counter-sue. In exchange for $5,000 payment I had to ask for a receipt, which would not have been issued otherwise. He neither offered to produce nor produced any sort of written agreement specifying the legal services he was hired to provide. Eventually, when asked about the counter-suit, he lied that the suit must be settled before a counter-suit could be filed. Suits and counter-suits are settled at the same trial. When I confronted him with this truth he denied that I hired him to also counter-sue. His correspondence with my legal adversaries' attorney was exceedingly friendly to the extent that I had to remind him that they were our legal adversaries and reprimanded him for being overly cordial. A court date was set. Mr. Gibson told me my presence at court was unnecessary. At that court date Mr. Gibson and the opposing lawyer simply agreed to drop the original lawsuit in exchange for not counter-suing. Mr. Gibson did not want me present in court because I never would have allowed that kind of "settlement" or "resolution". The other party owed me about $49,000 for default on an $840,000 agreement to buy and sell real estate. I got none of that which was owed me and lost the $5,000 fee he charged. Worse yet, due to Mr. Gibson's aforementioned misdeeds, a legal encumbrance placed upon my property prevented me from selling it. Years later, by myself, I had the matter dismissed due to abandonment of the case.