Matthew N. Gilman

Today I had to go to Barnstable District Court. Julie represented me. She was exceptional. She called me prior to going to court, and she explained everything to me. I could have lost my license, but she got me a Continued Without A Finding. I will be on unsupervised probation for 2 years…but I co...uldn’t have hoped for more. The woman who hit my car when I failed to yield was trying to get $1800. from me. I can’t thank Matt Gilman Law for their help. The other woman got nothing (because she showed up at court with nothing proving that she spent any out-of-pocket on anything). Without the help of Matt Gilman and Julie I could have lost my license for 60 days. Thank you Matt and Julie. I recommend Matt Gilman to everyone.

On Christmas Day 2020 I was issued a citation for Hit & Run Personal Injury and issued an Immediate Threat Suspension. He told me it would be $1000 for the Magistrates hearing for the Hit & Run and $1500 for the RMV and BOA license suspension hearings. We couldn't proceed with the suspension hearings... till the Hit & Run was disposed of. So I paid him $1000 just for the Hit & Run Magistrates hearing and told him I'll decide how to proceed when that is disposed of. The courts were closed due to COVID so it took 1 year to get a hearing date. I'd call him every few weeks to see how things were progressing and he wouldn't return my calls. He would call in a few days. This created a lot of stress. I also felt that he was judgmental and with some of his remarks had already ruled me guilty. This put me into a deep depression as I thought I was going to jail because you can go to jail for Hit & Run. I finally got a hearing notice for January 10, 2021. I contacted him to let him know of the hearing date and he told me he wasn't doing anything in January and would postpone the hearing date. I couldn't believe it. We waited a whole year to get a hearing and he was postponing it. How long would it take to get another hearing date? When I asked him why, he said that I was getting too personal. I reminded him that I was his client and I had a right to know why he couldn't attend the hearing. He said he was having hip replacement surgery. I asked him when was the surgery because if it was before the hearing date he could still attend the hearing and take care of it. He told me he had a right to take time off from work and that the surgery was on the 11th the day after my hearing. I informed him that he had a duty to represent his clients and that he was FIRED. I told him I wanted a full refund of my money or I was filing a complaint with the Board of Bar Overseers. He sent me a check FEDEX overnight but it wasn't for the $1000 I paid him but $2500. I called him and he issued a check for the right amount and FEDEXED it overnight. Very incompetent and unprofessional. Doesn't he keep any financial records? He had the audacity to ask me to reconsider and rehire him for my suspension hearings. I got another hearing date in a month with another attorney and the Police decided to drop the complaint with no criminal complaint issued so the Hit & Run is resolved but I still have a license suspension. This whole experience has been mentally draining. I am 66 and this is a hardship. He has good reviews but there are some bad ones. Believe me please do not hire him or this may happen to you. One bad review called him a CROOK. I believe by sending me the wrong refund amount he was trying to pull some kind of scam. How incompetent. He seems to think some people are stupid which they aren't. This man needs to be disbarred and not allowed to practice law anywhere in any state. Very unprofessional and a total jerk with no respect for his clients.

He told me prior to representation that he would get me back on the road with no problem for an (Immediate threat). After receiving my first payment he was inconsistent with communication, finally when speaking to him he recited my past record to me and proceeded to call me a "drug dealer"! I hired ...him for an appeal and had already done what the RMV asked of me, he sends me a list of tasks to complete that are far more then the RMV itself asks and I would have to pay even more money out of pocket! He was very judgemental in brief conversation ,rude and unprofessional!!! e a "drug dealer"