William Stanley Winters

Not surprisingly this attorney is currently on suspension, having lost his license to practice during a disciplinary investigation.... If your looking this attorney up, then you've likely received one of his mass mailings, trying to drum up new business for himself. Unfortunately, I was one of the ...people who retained him. Not only did this process take ten times longer than it should have due to his inattentiveness, but I also received several more of his mass mailings while he was supposed to be working on my appeal. In short... IF you want an attorney who: 1. Doesn't return phone calls. 2. Doesn't answer emails. 3. Misses court dates. 4. Fouls up legal responses with simple spelling/grammatical errors and by excluding details you provided him multiple times. 5. Doesn't send anything owed to you until you continuously remind him and is untruthful about having sent/received payments. If you enjoy all of these things, then this is the guy for you. Furthermore, his office staff is just as untruthful as he is and covers up for him when he doesn't want to speak with you on the phone. Fantastic!!! There are a lot of better choices out there, but if this were your only choice, you'd be better off representing yourself.

I retained Mr. Winters in early 2010 to file a property tax appeal after receiving a letter from him offering his services. His fee was 1/3 of the first year's tax savings plus the filing fee. I did not hear from him until a day or so before my case was scheduled to come before the board, at which ...point he informed me that it would be best to settle because the board would require an expensive appraisal. He said that the town had offered a settlement. I agreed to accept settlement and Mr. Winters told me that the settlement would be applied in 2011. Excepting the second advertising letter that he sent me in 2011, as if I was not already his client, I did not hear from Mr. Winters again. He did not respond to my request for documentation of the settlement letter or my request for an update about the status of the case. When I called, his secretary told me that I just had to wait to see the tax savings. The bottom line is that despite filing an appeal and reaching a settlement in early 2010, I did not see any property tax savings until about October of 2011, and Mr. Winters never communicated the reason why this was so. I was actually shocked to see that any tax savings were realized at all, because I felt that my case had slipped through the cracks. Mr. Winters billed me in full promptly after the tax savings were finally applied.