Samuel Eliceo Manrique

0 stars! Devastated! Manrique took our money ($3,500.00 retainer fee) and has not worked our case one bit! He first assigned us a “retired” paralegal to which was a horrible experience. We expressed our concerns then and when Manrique pleaded with us to give him another chance and apologized for even... assigning this retired paralegal to us and for the lack of communication he advised us that he would assign someone new named Amanda. We spoke and thought we would try again and give another chance. It’s been about a little over a year and during that time we did not get a set and confirmed court date. We were presented by the paralegal at the time with a supposed dated within September of 2022 and it was the beginning of the year at that time. She said she was going to work with the courts to see if she can get a date sooner and shoot for April. We never got any response or confirmation and everytime I tried to contact to get an update there was always an excuse. One was Manrique was on a vacation with his mom due to her illness he wanted to just take her around the world I guess. The other, the paralegal was going through personal issues and a death in the family. Even after waiting months for a response I never got anything. We felt so uncomfortable and felt we were being scammed! In which we was scammed! We reached out to the paralegal Amanda to state we did not want Manrique to represent us at all and we wanted our money back- our retainer. At this point they started disappearing. Mr . Sam Manrique ignored my calls and did not even address the issue. He never contacted us to even discuss what was going on. He never replied or contacted us to give us our money back. Simply nothing! Till this day no call no nothing and it is now end of July going into August 2022. For a family with low income and our savings at the time spent on what we though was going to be successful turned to simply be a burden, emotional abuse, and inhumane. We were promised no additional fees because of the first issue and now look, completely abandoned and robbed by this lawyer. During these times and babies to feed this has been such a impact financially- Mr. Manrique shame on you and God will triumph over our enemies and sees all wrongs and will repay. Vengeance belongs to the Lord