Gary B. Fuller

I am in the process of setting up a trust and am looking for a lawyer to help me arrange that. I contacted Mr. Fuller around 2:30pm on a Thursday and spoke to his assistant. She said she would send me a questionnaire to fill out, and we agreed that Mr. Fuller would contact me at 4pm. His assistant em...ailed me the questionnaire. I reserved a small conference room at work, and sat ... and Mr. Fuller never called. He did not call back on Friday, either. I looked over the questionnaire, and -- not surprisingly for a trust -- it requested a lot of personal information (e.g., my full name, DOB, and SSN, as well as similar information for my wife and children; banking institutions and approximate balance information). That is all very reasonable and necessary information. However, Mr. Fuller's office explicitly requested that I return this information via *e-mail*. I am a computer professional, and I simply will not return a wealth of private information -- with a roadmap for identity theft and fraud -- over an unencrypted and insecure connection. That was not an acceptable security practice in 1994, and it certainly shouldn't be considered acceptable 20 years later. I finally called Mr. Fuller again the following Monday, and said that I would be more than willing to drop the questionnaire off in person and we could go from there. He personally reiterated that I should return this wealth of private information via insecure email. I told him I was a computer professional and did not feel comfortable doing that, but would more than happy to drop the questionnaire off in person. Mr. Fuller sighed heavily, and said (almost sarcastically) "you can certainly bring the questionnaire back in person, but you'll be handing it to my assistant and not me directly. Do you feel comfortable doing *that*?" At this point the conversation was over. Mr. Fuller may be a good attorney, but during my interactions with his office, he had little grasp of privacy or security, and was utterly and immaturely dismissive of my concerns and came across as unwilling to work with me. I will most certainly be retaining a different lawyer.