Highly unethical attorney. We chose Tim since he was a member of our legal plan to represent us in a civil case. After telling us that the plan would not cover our case, we paid Tim a $2500 retainer. During this time Tim would...
Read MoreHighly unethical attorney. We chose Tim since he was a member of our legal plan to represent us in a civil case. After telling us that the plan would not cover our case, we paid Tim a $2500 retainer. During this time Tim would be proactive and mail us copies of whatever documents he would send or file with the courts. I looked over our legal plan and found that his charges should have, in fact, been covered by our plan.Our legal plan's counse determined that this was so and advised Tim of the same. Since being notified that his time would be covered by the plan and to not use my retainer for covered charges, I stopped getting any correspondence from his office. No copies of any documents, no phone calls, no more updates, nothing. Tim never even told us that there was a hearing for summary judgement. The only reason we found out was from a copy of the order from the court, itself. After the hearing, we found out that Tim didn't even argue our case as we had discussed. We eventually lost our case. Tim didn't even bother to notify us until over a week later. When asked about our options, Tim determined that he no longer wanted to represent us and referred us to another attorney who wouldn't even return our calls. When asked about the refund of the $2500 retainer, Tim put us off for over 6 weeks until he finally acknowledged he was trying to "come up" with the money. Our legal plan counsel had also been contacting him to return our retainer without further delay. Throughout this time and during our case Tim would never initiate contact with us. We had to initiate contact with him. Even then, it would take anywhere from a week and a half to a month before he would respond. Tim eventually decided after 46 days that he was no longer going to refund our money despite knowing that his charges were covered by our plan. I have yet to get a breakdown of how my retainer was spent, much less anything else. I would never refer him to anyone. Now he is running for circuit court judge. If Tim is representative of our judicial and legal system, then we, as citizens, have very little when it comes to faith in our legal system.
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2 Reviews on “Smith J Timothy in Birmingham”
I made the mistake of hiring Mr. Smith to represent my son who had been charged with donestic violence and wasdd arrested. I must in all honestly say that this lawyer was kind to me and my son in that after he was released, Mr. Smith took him to purchase some clothes and taxied him to the bank and to a hotel since his car was inaccesible. It appears, however, that he charged us for every hour he spent being “kind.” What followed was a series of mishaps, bad counsel, lack of representation and a complete and utter debacle which landed my son back in jail for contempt of court for actions based on the instructions and advice of this lawyer. We haven’t seen him or heard from hiim since my son was incarcerated the second time except for a call to plead is own case for what had taken place. We had to hire a new lawyer to try to wade through the absolute mess which has been made, and Mr. Smith refunded $350 out of the $3000 he was paid to handle the case. I am writing this review with the hope it will prevent anyone else from making the mistake we have made. Hiring Mr. Smith was extremely costly in terms of time, money, human dignity, loss of job and a legal catastrophe. Please do not consider hiring him for any legal problem you may have. He is not competent nor is he ethical. He should not be practicing law. When this terrible chapter in my life is over, I am going to seek damages.
It is hard to accurately express how incompetent and damaging this lawyer can be. He was kind to my son in a very difficult situation but charged us for every minute he spent being “kind.” My son’s case was so botched he spent 5 days in jail for contempt of court based on the advice and consultation of this lawyer who never showed his face again except to explain why he kept $2700 of the retainer for a job which has cost us time, money, human dignity, loss of job and personal humiliation. He should not be practicing law. He works from his home which is totally inaccessible, so do not skip all the red flags like we did and hire this man to protect you. You will be very sorry.