luckycharm
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Hi guys,
I was going to apply for an asylum. I hired an attorney. He charged hourly at the initial interview, then he offered a flat rate to hadle the case. I agreed and gave him the full fee he wanted.
After receiving the money he showed no interest in my case, he could not remember a thing about me during the second appointment when I brought all the documents and evidence. I had to introduce him to my case all over again. He was very slow, would not listen to me at all. We basically did everything we already did at the first appointment. I realized I wasted my time and money on him. The next appointment he kept us waiting in the guest room for 30 minutes. He had his lunch and wrote an article (according to him) during my appointment time.
When he invited me to his room, I asked my money back and told him that I was not satisfied with his services. He was very rude, he raised his voice and slammed the door saying GOODBYE!. After 10 minutes he returned and gave me discharge paper which I signed and he also gave me a check for flat fee I paid him. I immediately cashed the check. After a week I received a letter, he indicated to bring his forms back and he also indicated he stopped payment to my account. Indeed my bank account went to minus with additional fees for negative balance.
I went to see him, and returned all the forms. He told me "he is not returning full fee because it was non refundable and that I agreed to him and signed the papers at the initial interview". I looked at the paper and realized that it was not our agreement paper. I told him that I never saw that paper before and I never signed it. He immediately interrupted me and covered the paper. and told me "however I am going to charge you for the time I spent on your case"
He did not spend anytime on my case, I paid hourly for the time he spend sloooooowly in front of me. We had refundable flat fee agreement. And he didi not filed my application to the USCIS. I did not filled in his intake forms. That is because he has to fully refund the flat fee I payed. But he is claiming that we had a retainers agreement which is non refundable. I asked full refund according to flat fee agreement. he yelled at me "then sue me, we will see you in the court". He did not return my requests and did not listen to me. I was not given a chanvce to speak.
I don't know what to do... please advice. he is such a mean and rude person. The only thing he carse is money as he admitted at the initial interview...
I was going to apply for an asylum. I hired an attorney. He charged hourly at the initial interview, then he offered a flat rate to hadle the case. I agreed and gave him the full fee he wanted.
After receiving the money he showed no interest in my case, he could not remember a thing about me during the second appointment when I brought all the documents and evidence. I had to introduce him to my case all over again. He was very slow, would not listen to me at all. We basically did everything we already did at the first appointment. I realized I wasted my time and money on him. The next appointment he kept us waiting in the guest room for 30 minutes. He had his lunch and wrote an article (according to him) during my appointment time.
When he invited me to his room, I asked my money back and told him that I was not satisfied with his services. He was very rude, he raised his voice and slammed the door saying GOODBYE!. After 10 minutes he returned and gave me discharge paper which I signed and he also gave me a check for flat fee I paid him. I immediately cashed the check. After a week I received a letter, he indicated to bring his forms back and he also indicated he stopped payment to my account. Indeed my bank account went to minus with additional fees for negative balance.
I went to see him, and returned all the forms. He told me "he is not returning full fee because it was non refundable and that I agreed to him and signed the papers at the initial interview". I looked at the paper and realized that it was not our agreement paper. I told him that I never saw that paper before and I never signed it. He immediately interrupted me and covered the paper. and told me "however I am going to charge you for the time I spent on your case"
He did not spend anytime on my case, I paid hourly for the time he spend sloooooowly in front of me. We had refundable flat fee agreement. And he didi not filed my application to the USCIS. I did not filled in his intake forms. That is because he has to fully refund the flat fee I payed. But he is claiming that we had a retainers agreement which is non refundable. I asked full refund according to flat fee agreement. he yelled at me "then sue me, we will see you in the court". He did not return my requests and did not listen to me. I was not given a chanvce to speak.
I don't know what to do... please advice. he is such a mean and rude person. The only thing he carse is money as he admitted at the initial interview...
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