Trusting Aaron Pelley and his firm Cultiva Law was, by far, the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. For starters, they absolutely refused to prepare for trial - I personally had to go through court records and dig up all the impeachment material myself - they acted super uninterested in any of it. So I did. I dug up at least half a dozen instances to impeach lying witnesses - and I made them promise they would use it. But Cultiva flaked. And I could see it coming - I tried so hard to get this material into trial. But I was fighting them at every turn. Even when they committed to me that they would use it - they completely betrayed me. It was all lies with them.
In addition to failing to impeach plaintiffs two most important witnesses - they completely missed a deadline for an expert witness. I was harping on them - do not forget this, do not forget this. But they forgot it. It was like watching the Keystone Cops up close. I can't believe the incompetence.
In addition to this, they completely broke numerous agreements about how my case was to be presented.
Sure, he's got some good reviews here - but you gotta realize - most of them (or perhaps all) didn't actually go to trial with Cultiva and Pelley. I did. And it was such an unthinkable disaster I almost blame myself for not doing more research to uncover that this is not what these guys actually do, nor are any good at it. But neither do they have any humility whatsoever to admit this. Nor were they straightforward. They are all ego, bluster, and B.S. Insanely, and brazenly, Pelley always referred to himself and Cultiva as "the best." And I was dumb enough to believe that they were at least halfway competent.
I do not know how these guys sleep at night. I think of them as completely unconscionable, extremely selfish, and all around horrible attorneys. They destroyed my life. And they don't even care. I have worked with about ten law firms over the years, and Pelley is the least ethical, least trustworthy, least caring, most ambitious, most unaware, most arrogant. It is just a stew of malfeasance, ineptitude, and complete disregard for what we had agreed upon. These people held my life in their hands, and they didn't care, and they didn't honor any of what they said they'd do. I have no words to express the intensity of my negative feelings for Aaron Pelley. read more