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.

Don't hire him. His fee structure escalates if your case is escalated. I am entitled to a clerks hearing, but he was refusing to try to get one for me. He's not motivated to get your case dismissed early in the process. I have no criminal record and a clean driving record. And I've been driving ...for 35 yrs. This attorney is only 39 yrs old. After he gets a your signed contract, he won't return your calls. I waited 3 days for a return call and had to call 2xs about an urgent, vexing matter. I was then treated poorly and yelled at. Meanwhile I'm reading witness statements and they contain info that incriminates themselves. Not sure he even read anything. I fired him. BEWARE!!! If you hire him he'll let your case go to trial and you'll have a criminal record. I guess most of his clients are OUI cases, so maybe they aren't entitled to a clerks hearing. After I fired him, I received an automated email from his office introducing his associate who litigates! She looks incredibly young. I guess ALL of his clients wind up going to trial. AVOID. There are much better attorneys out there, for less $$$ too.

Matt has made this weird "journey" I have been on for a DUI somewhat palatable. I know the mistake I've made, but Matt was not judgmental and seemed to care about my situation. He was also very helpful in understanding the RMV and has worked with me to help me get back on the road. I appreciate him ...very much!