4 years ago
Go somewhere else!! The experience I had was hones...
Go somewhere else!! The experience I had was honestly humiliating. I will say, the girls who worked at the front desk and all of my paralegals were so professional as well as Mike Della! Unfortunately he was not my attorney. I never leave reviews, but I was asked to by my attorney and I can honestly say that there is NO WAY I can leave a good review. The first thing that bothered me was the way I was questioned about the doctors I had been seeing. I had to notify them of every office and doctor that was treating me. The attorney who was defending the person who had hit my car looked really far into my medical history and gave a full list of every doctor I saw. So my attorney called me with the biggest attitude and pretty much made it seem like I was lying to him. If he did his research before calling he would have realized most of those doctors had absolutely NOTHING to do with my accident or any injuries I had. The whole conversation made me cry to the point where I wanted to drop the whole thing. Another thing that was pretty annoying was that I got emails two or three times of personal information for different clients of theirs that had nothing to do with me. Fast forward to my deposition. I met someone the day of that I had never met before. I wondered if he really knew my case. He coached me on what to say and what not to say and I really wish it went differently because it affected what I could say in trial. The trial was the worst part! I kept asking my attorney to discuss certain things in court because I was the one in the car. I know better than him and the other attorney was making me out to look like a liar. He kept saying don't worry we have this in the bag. All he did was make fun of everyone in the room. I almost turned around to the guy who I was trying to sue and apologized. The judge would ask him to stop doing something and he'd start tapping his feet and looking up in the air like he was waiting for her to just finish speaking and then he'd proceed to do what she just ask him to stop doing. He kept saying "watch what I do to this guy" before talking like the whole trial was some type of game. I spent years being miserable after this car accident. It wasn't a game to me! After each day I would go home and think of what could have been said or what witnesses I would like there. I would text him and everything would be ignored. On our breaks I saw the defendant always talking with his attorney. I spent my breaks alone while my attorney went to TWO retirement parties for judges in the building. After all of the comments he made about everyone in the courtroom during the trail.. loud enough for everyone to hear, we eventually lost. I remember feeling so crushed and looking over at him and seeing nothing but rage. After the jury left and everything was over he marched down the hall, threw his bag across the floor and ran downstairs to demand why the jury went with the defendant. I got to listen to all the reasons and it was something so simple that we could have discussed if he only answered all of my text messages or what I asked him to discuss in person. He got so loud and angry with them that some of them said " I'm sorry. I've done my time I'd like to leave." He then yelled WELL LEAVE! The arguing was so bad that I had to ask a security guard to take me to a side exit so I could get to my car. I was too afraid to walk by them. Not to mention it was so humiliating to see my attorney acting like a child when I hired him to do a professional job! I later texted him and thanked him for all the work he had put in to my trial and knew that sometimes you can't win everything and my only reply was days later asking for a review. What hurts the most is that Mike Della had previously called me stating the amount that was being offered to me and let me know that I can either take that or go to trial, but to keep in mind that I could possibly lose. I later told my attorney that I was thinking of settling and he said no we're going to trail. I wish I said no! Worst experience and wasted years of my life stressing