Kenneth Foard McCallion

Hiring Kenneth Foard McCallion wasn’t just a mistake - it was a disaster that destroyed my case and years of my life. What I went through with him was a level of incompetence, indifference, and collapse so extreme that I still feel sick thinking about it. For three years, I watched McCallion drift... through my lawsuit like a man who had already retired but hadn’t bothered to tell anyone. He ignored most of my emails, never communicated unless opposing counsel forced a response, and made constant, sloppy mistakes — misspellings, wrong terminology, basic errors no competent attorney should make. He refused to prepare, refused to engage, and refused to take responsibility for anything. And then came the invoices where he wouldn't even make an effort to make them seem real, with his smug “discounted invoice” tagline each and every time. But all of that was nothing compared to the nightmare that unfolded at trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom was the single most shocking professional collapse I’ve ever seen. In my opinion, McCallion was severely mentally impaired for the entirety of the trial. He wasn’t just “off.” He looked cognitively lost - unfocused, confused, disoriented, and barely functional. He froze for long stretches, unable to speak. He asked questions that made no sense. Objections were sustained almost every time he tried to say anything. The judge reprimanded him repeatedly. He had almost nothing written down. He had no plan, no structure, no understanding of the flow of the trial. He looked like a vagrant who had wandered into the courtroom by accident. And then came the excuses. On two separate days, he told the judge and me that he was “running a fever.” But before the second trial day, his paralegal wife told me he had gone to the doctor for foot pain, which instantly raised even more disturbing questions: Was he heavily medicated? Was this cognitive decline? Was he simply unable to function? I don’t know the cause, but I know the effect: he was not mentally capable of serving as an attorney. Not even remotely. He never used the defendant’s deposition testimony - not once - even when the defendant lied blatantly. He failed to challenge outrageous falsehoods. He missed opportunities that any competent lawyer would have pounced on. He stated an audio file was “corrupted” because he had no idea how to play it. My case, which survived a motion to dismiss, survived summary judgment, and was fully trial-ready, was destroyed by the person who was supposed to protect it. The consequences for me were devastating: financially, emotionally, personally. Years of work gone. A verdict that cost me hundreds of thousands, if not over a million dollars. And the sickening reality that none of this was inevitable, it was the direct result of Ken McCallion. And as if that weren’t enough, after the trial, when I asked him basic questions about what happened, he responded with a “pay-to-play” demand. He wanted more money just to explain his own failures. Kenneth Foard McCallion should not be practicing law. Not even for free. Not even as a favor. The man I saw in that courtroom was not a functioning trial attorney. He was, in my view, a danger to anyone who hires him. I once believed he kept working at this stage of his life because he loved the profession. Now I know he’s doing it for a quick buck - in which he outsources his work to a young associate overseas so he can do as little as possible - with no regard for the destruction he leaves behind. I cannot imagine worse than Kenneth Foard McCallion.