Taylor Bayona Law Group

Amazing people that does good work
May 5th, 2020

hired them to represent me in a custody case, told them my budget, i was assured it was going to be enough to complete my case, then once hired getting a response from emails or phone calls was next to impossible, the GAL assigned to the case kept having to call me because they were not responding to her either. Gave them a retainer of $2500, received one bill showing that I had only used have of it, but they were showing i only had less than half of my retainer credited to me and asking me for more money, left multiple messages and emails to find out where the rest of my retainer was, never answered, finally, because I used all the money i had to hire them, i was forced to negotiate a settlement on my own, when i sent them the notice that they didn't represent me anymore (GAL wouldn't talk to me until i did because they were supposed to be "representing me") it took them 2 weeks to even acknowledge they received it, and then it was lies and excuses, i asked for the rest of my retainer back since I only got 1 invoice showing i had used only half of what I gave them, they, all of a sudden had all these invoices I was never sent that made no sense and listed the same thing multiple times, and said i was actually out of money, when i first met with them, i was told, that because i was referred to them, i would receive an hourly rate of $250 instead of $300, but none of the invoices reflected that, and when i questioned them, they acted like they had no idea what i was talking about. the settlement i got, i could have completely gotten with out them, as it was basically the same as the GAL's recommendation, get a real lawyer and don't go to this chop shop, they clearly only care about getting retainers and nothing else
Jan 7th, 2019