I'm forced to give him 1 star just to send a review but David Craig Paquin really deserves 0 stars. In fact, I wouldn't be wasting my time writing this if it weren't for the fact that I'm trying to save people time, headaches, and most importantly, the money! He never disclosed that he was not a federal attorney and yet still took my brother's federal case. He mislead us assuring us my brother would only be required to serve no more than year and it turns out he was sentenced to 5 years. I realize ultimately, the Judge appoints the time but if David Paquin would have been more familiar with the Federal/Criminal laws then he probably would not have given anyone high hopes. Even after the sentencing David assured us my brother would only be serving 1/2 the time. FALSE. We have consulted with several other "real" federal attorneys and they've assured us that that federal cases work different where the inmate is required to serve at least 85% of the sentence, if not the full term. It has been a year since the sentencing and we have not received the refund for the bail bond that was posted when we were told it would take less than 3 months. He would not return our phone calls so we had to go several times to his office only to find it closed. Recently, we were finally able to communicate with him but he only gives us excuses as to why we have not received the bail money back, e.g. he was kidnapped in Mexico, his car was broken into and files were stolen hence why my brother's file was lost.........etc. If you ever want to hear crazy, super hero stories, just go to David. But don't hire him for something as important as a criminal case. I admit we probably should have done our homework on him before we hired him but we didn't and now my brother and the family are paying the price. Don't hire him. He doesn't care about you or even his reputation. If he cared he would have filed the motion to get us the refund when we told him we'd be filing a complaint with The State Bar of California. But as expected, he has done nothing. read more