Babiedwal1

Review of Devry Smith Frank LLP

My mom was rear ended by another vehicle where my ...

My mom was rear ended by another vehicle where my sister and I were passengers. We filed a claim and everything was going smoothly, timely, and professionally thanks to our Law Clerk Murrad at the time. Suddenly, half way through our claim Murrad left the firm and all things went down hill from there. No one seemed to be handling our file and when we went to speak with our supposed to be Lawyer Mark he gave us the run around. No updates were given into what was going on with our claim. Years went by and I decided to push the issue and was told that another Lawyer David Schell would be taking over our file. We never heard anything from either Mark or David Schell even when we inquired for an update. It took about 3 or 4 years before we were able to get a solid response about our settlement. My mom and I attended a Disclosure hearing and had no Lawyer to represent us when the other Lawyer was grilling us about personal details of our lives. Instead they sent a very young female Law clerk who just sat there and said nothing in our defense. Mind you the questions we were asked had nothing to do with the car accident and it seemed malicious in nature. That's why we should have had proper representation by a Lawyer who took 30% of our settlement. In the end, I ended up with $5,000, my mom $16,000, and the Lawyer ate about $20,000 - $30,000 (can't really remember the exact number but it was a lot). I mean i know we have to pay 30% in fees but for what? Like what work did they do on or file that warranted the lawyer to get more than me? I requested a time sheet depicting the work and fees to prove the work that was done on our file. They provided a copy but I strongly believed that it was drafted up at the last second by one of their fancy law clerks. I also strongly believe that our settlement was left sitting in a corner collecting dust to add more money to their hefty fees. I would not recommend as I still have nightmares about how greedy these Lawyers can be. I mean do they really think they deserve $20,000 for not showing up to represent their clients? Not proving legal advice, feedback, and by simply keeping in touch? We shouldn't have to chase a lawyer that is being paid quite nice in the end. They were also unreachable by phone and we literally had to go down to their office multiple times just before we actually got a 2 minute legal advice telling us not to go to trial out of ear of being counter sued blah blah blah