Legal troubles are never fun, and the process of finding and retaining a lawyer less so. Google search any given lawyer and you'll find endless half-literate horror stories from people who lost their cases and blame their attorney for it, with allegations that would serve as inspiration to a Mafia don.
In my situation, I was having issues with a collector that was harassing my wife and I day and night over the course of years in an effort to try to collect an invalid debt. Even the company to whom I supposedly owed the initial debt to agreed it was erroneous, but the debt had already been sold. In any case I knew my rights but didn't think I had any actual recourse. It got to a point where they started up with their chest-thumping litigious nonsense on an already bad day for me and I retained Mr. Clapp as counsel to put an end to it.
Though I initially saw the words "bankruptcy lawyer" and overlooked him, the problem fell within his domain and thus I have absolutely no regrets about hiring him. During our scheduled appointments, he was courteous and professional, and well-versed in all aspects of this particular field of law (credit law? I don't know what it would technically be). Unlike some of the other attornies I talked to, his office didn't look like Saul Goodman's-- it was clean, modern and professional (some places I went to were just dingy and gross-- I don't tolerate sloppiness from someone who might have to represent me in court).
Anytime I had a question, he had an answer, or got back to me with one shortly, and even managed to fix a few other minor issues I was having that other attornies I had talked to said was either impossible or something I would have to do on my own.
A few sternly-worded letters from Mr. Clapp put an end to this particular collector's campaign of harassment, and the few times I've had follow-up questions in terms of mitigating the damage done to my credit by this collector, he has been more than helpful.
I really cannot recommend Mr. Clapp enough-- if he was willing to go so far above and beyond for my minor legal request, if I ever filed bankruptcy, I'd definitely be going to him with my case. read more