Chester Lavester Banks

You can be a good Christian but awful at your job. He completely gave us terrible advise and was awful in court, awful is being nice. He mumbled the Judge had to tell him to speak up. He called my daughter by the wrong name, he had no clue what he was doing, the other attny chewed him up and spit h...im out. Afterwards he said that went well and I had to remind him we lost. We had to hire another attny to try to undo what he did. Again you can be a good Christian but terrible at your job. I regret the day we hired him.

I showed up at Banks and Associates planning to represent myself for an emergency child custody hearing...in 22 hours! I've been burned pretty badly by the last attorneys I hired, so I had actually gone on a free referral to get as much legal advice as I could to do so. After 45 minutes of consulting... with Mr. Banks, I realized that my case wasn't quite as cut and dry as I thought. I felt comfortable enough after our conversation that I decided to hire him, even though he expressed - at the front end - that he didn't think we wouldn't walk out of court with a verdict in our favor, since my child's opinion would be given strong consideration by the court due to age...but he took my case anyway. He went through all the information I provided (much of which he couldn't use...and he told me so), sorted through what was relevant, saw through the BS, and presented my case before the judge as if he had been on it since before my child was potty trained, even with all my last minute "oh, by the way's." He's an honest, up front attorney who will give it to you straight and, if your opinions differ, he will fight for the result YOU want and, at least in my case, win! There aren't words to express my gratitude for the excellent job Mr. Banks did. I hold no reservations in saying that the time I'll be able to spend with my child before the age of majority is all thanks to him proving to the judge that there was no legal basis for the emergency motion.

I was going thru a divorce and hired Mr. Banks to represent me. He forgot to include one of the cars that I paid off while we were married so my wife got to keep it. He also charged me $6,000 dollars for work he allegedly performed less than two weeks after retaining his services. By the time my divo...rce was complete, I had paid almost $8,000 dollars, got no custody of our 13 year old daughter, and was ordered to pay over $500 dollars a month in child support. Afterwards, While standing outside of the court room trying to figure out what just happened, Mr. Banks walked up and told me that he thought that went well...! Two weeks later I receive a bill from Mr. Banks stating I still owed him $1,300 dollars. Still upset, I reviewed all of the invoices and realized that I had actually overpaid him. This man had the audacity to tell me that they made an accounting error and I still owed him the $1,300!!! I politely told him to take me to court and hung up. I never received another phone call from Mr. Banks. There is not a rating low enough that I could give this man.