If you hire Roger Layne, you will regret it. My dear friend hired Roger to help with a divorce and I have sat in on some of the meetings and the mediation. Absolute waste of time and money. Zero communication. Lazy. Didn't even bother trying to settle case. Just ignored it and let it drag on until he was fired and a new attorney retained. Roger was completely negligent. This firm might be good, but Roger would rather watch a Vols game during mediation than actually take an interest in what's going on with his client. When my friend got his file, it was sloppy and the new lawyer could barely make heads or tails of it. Roger couldn't even bother having an assistant type up his hand written notes that are nearly illegible. The notebook pages were just scanned in and saved. Discovered motions for default judgment based on inactivity on Roger's part, that were filed by opposing counsel that my friend had never been made aware of (I wonder why...). Roger dropped the ball on interrogatories and somehow neglected to review or submit them FOR MONTHS. When opposing counsel did ask follow up questions, Roger "forgot" to tell my friend and said "oops, I dropped the ball..." When reviewing the answers, that had been given orally in a meeting with Corissa, discovered they were unprofessionally written, with information missing and inaccurate, additionally, paperwork (i.e. bank statements, etc completely missing). I had to go in and organize, correct and fix the file so that it made any sense at all and help my friend try to recover all the evidence and that was lost. At this point he had lost all hope and motivation. When you pay an attorney to care and they treat you this way, it's hard to stay silent. How this firm continues to keep him on board amazes me. My best advice... go anywhere else. Seriously. $5000 and a whole year wasted, just to start over with a better attorney who actually wants to help. Watching a friend be treated so carelessly during one of the hardest times of his life and seeing his hope slowly go down the drain was very upsetting. If Roger had any conscience, he'd refund the retainer as a gesture of apology and acknowledgement of mistakes made, but I doubt that will happen. Let me make this clear, I was NOT the client or party to this law suit. My friend was the client and I have had to pick up the pieces and help him through this process.
Update: The new attorney has done more in 2 weeks than Roger did in the several months he "worked" for my friend. What a shame that this firm allows such sloppy work to sully their reputation. read more