I was very young and inexperienced with attorneys when I hired him back in 2021. The state of Texas seized my assets that attorney Bret Schmidt capitalized on by having me sign a document that's stated whatever assets we received back from the state of Texas he gets 50 percent(50%). The total amount was $540,109 and we was only able to get $210,000 which $104,313 went to me, $70,000 went to Law Office of Bret W. Schmidt, P.C. and $35,000 went to Scott H. Palmer, P.C which was the 3rd party I had no knowledge about. I also had 2 criminal cases that was $5,000 each and the cases were ongoing for 4 years and no motions were filed but the invoices were still sent every month. Also kept you trying to review the discovery of my case to see what evidence the court would try to use on me and he wouldn't let me view it. Kept saying things like "it's a lot to download" or "my computer not fast enough". Then he became very unresponsive to my calls and texts, I could not get in touch with him until days later. Few conversations we did have he was no longer calling me by name, he was referring to me as "dude". When I brought all of this to his attention he wanted to persuade me to sign a plea without me not knowing what I'm up against cause I have not seen the evidentiary discovery. I knew then I had to find a new attorney. I have PTSD which I informed my attorney this as well and this entire process and everything I went through with this attorney has made it worse. I had to spend $10,000 for a new attorney which it took a 2 weeks to come into agreement with the state of Texas Frank Crowley Courthouse
Criminal District Court #5. I was able to watch all discovery with my new attorney which took about 2 hours and the deal I got with Micheal was extremely better than the deal I got with Bret. Almost felt as if Bret was working with the prosecutor. Bret last offer to me was a felony 2 years probation deferred and time served. My new attorney Micheal Smith got me a misdemeanor with no probation, time served. read more