BEWARE‼After reading the positive reviews on Todd I thought he might be a safe bet. I SHOULD'VE…read morePAID ATTENTION TO ALL HIS NEGATIVE REVIEWS and saved myself a nightmare experience!
I met with him for 2 hours, explained my desperate - time constraining situation, and begged for him to help me and protect me legally. He said he would, and he gave me his word as we shook hands, and I paid him $5000.00 that he required, THEN I NEVER HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN for 36 days!!! So I called and left a voice message but STILL DID NOT HEAR BACK FROM HIM!!! On the 41st day of STILL NOT HEARING from Todd, I called again and his secretary talked to him while putting me on hold - BUT HE STILL WOULDN'T TALK TO ME! She said - "he said he will call you RIGHT BACK". He NEVER CALLED ME! The next day, (day 42) I drove half an hour to his office to get there at 8am. I asked for my $5000.00 dollars back. The secretary called Todd and all he said was "ok".
After that, on 7/12/24, I received a phone call from Todd and we discussed each other's position and Todd said that he would be willing to help me again. My husband and I told him only if he would agree to bill us hourly instead of $5000 dollars and communicate to the opposing party and to us in a reasonable timely matter. Todd agreed to that.
It wasn't until Monday morning (7/22) of not getting anywhere with Todd that I sent him a lengthy email stating my concerns and displeasure over my entire experience and he only replied "We will address your topics pursuant to the attached service agreement. Please sign and return it at your earliest convenience." and finally sent the contract to sign. However, his contract did not state the terms and conditions that we agreed upon and stated that we would pay him another $5000 dollars instead of being billed hourly. So, I had to again email him inquiring why his new contract did not state our agreement. My anxiety, frustration level, trust, and faith at this point through all the nonsense was through the roof.
On Tuesday (7/23) Todd sent a contract correctly stating our terms of agreement and my husband and I signed and returned it stating - "My husband and I were hoping that we could come down and meet with you at your next soonest time because a few things have changed and I need to show you some things and it would be rather difficult to try and explain it in a email if that is ok with you? We will try and accommodate your schedule to come at your next available opportunity." By the following Monday 29th, after not ever hearing back from Todd to get his next available appointment time, I decided that it was not going to be in my best interest to proceed forward with Todd due to his inability to maintain reasonable lines of communication, inability to perform one single task for me since May 29th, inability to perform any task for me in a timely manner, inability to uphold terms agreed upon and changing them for his benefit after the fact, and causing me almost 3 months of complete wasted time causing escalated anxiety, worry, and stress.
It was completely irresponsible, inconsiderate, unprofessional, and incompetent.
Not only did he not keep his word that we shook on, but he cost me wasted time on my case and added problems that I have filed a complaint with the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, as there is an issue with Supreme Court Rule #'s - 4-1.3 Diligence, 4-1.4 Communication, and 4-1.5 Fees. And contacted the Better Business Bureau as well as leaving this review on other platforms to hopefully protect others from going through what he put me through. There's an endless sea of lawyers out there, so I caution you on considering this one - unfortunately his word and handshake as a man has meant nothing! I had very high hopes just to be duped! -Mrs. McGhee
