Dale Edwin Sanders

Dale Sanders represented me in an auto accident claim in which I was the injured party. Mr. Sanders represented me in a professional manner and acted tirelessly in seeking me the best financial results. He kept in constant contact and encouraged me to ask any questions that I had. I am very grateful ...for all the hard work that Mr. Sanders put towards my case and I am very pleased with my settlement.

I was referred to Mr. Sanders from a former boss and found him to be very knowledgeable, highly professional and detailed oriented. He guided me through a complex process to accurately identify and document expenses that supported my case; and planned a strategy to maximize a favorable outcome. Throu...gh his detailed analyses of my corporate records and his understanding of the law he was able to negotiate an optimum outcome on my behalf. The settlement included an initial partial payment with monthly payments secured with a property lien. Mr. Sanders kept me informed of the status of the case, as well as conversations with opposing counsel and shared all relevant documents.

I was referred to Mr. Sanders from a former boss and found him to be very knowledgeable, highly professional and detailed oriented. He guided me through a complex process to accurately identify and document expenses that supported my case; and planned a strategy to maximize a favorable outcome. Thro...ugh his detailed analyses of my corporate records and his understanding of the law he was able to negotiate an optimum outcome on my behalf. The settlement included an initial partial payment with monthly payments secured with a property lien. Mr. Sanders kept me informed of the status of the case, as well as conversations with opposing counsel and shared all relevant documents.

I deeply regret hiring this attorney and would not do so again. I retained Sanders to assume legal representation in a discrimination and retaliation action in 2013. I voluntarily gave him a 50% contingency as compensation plus he was allowed to collect fixed payments of $1140 per month. His performa...nce of the legal representation was not what I expected. When he took over the representation, he withdrew the discovery requests of previous counsel and propounded his own discovery requests. He also incurred time and expense amending the original complaint. While he defended the 2 depositions scheduled by opposing counsel, despite my repeated requests, he failed to notice and schedule depositions of key witnesses. While he held that the discovery obtained from the opposing counsel was deficient, he never attended the Rule 37 meeting required by DC to address discovery shortfalls. Despite orders by the Court that the parties should not expect additional extensions in the discovery schedule, he moved for a second extension of case deadlines (on the last day of discovery!) stating that he needed time to obtain additional discovery and that depositions would be forthcoming. This request was denied by the Court within two weeks. The DC Superior Court held in Orders denying Sanders request for a second extension that any failures of Sanders to get the required discovery was due to tactical choices made by Sanders during his legal representation of me. Shortly thereafter, the case settled with no dollar amounts awarded. But it gets worse much worse. Literally within days of the settlement, despite the contract explicitly stating that Sanders was to be compensated on a 50% contingency (which I gave him – the standard appears to be 33 1/3 %) Sanders hired a friend and tried to sue me in Alexandria Circuit Court claiming that he was owed an hourly fee, ultimately demanding over $100,000. This was in violation of the parties’ agreement to arbitrate any dispute over fees under governing Bar Rule XIII. On Sanders requirement to arbitrate, in an email on October 1, 2013 Sanders falsely informed me that (1) under the DC arbitration program his consent was required for any arbitration and (2) he did not give his consent. In December 2017 the Alexandria Court - after 4 years of expensive litigation – agreed with me and ruled that any dispute over refunds due was required to be heard in arbitration in DC before the DC ACAB. But perhaps most alarmingly he continues to harangue me in emails to my home email address and my work email address. His latest "nasty gram" in June 2018 revealed that 5 years later he knew intimate details of my life including my living arrangements and recent employment activity. Very disturbing. I absolutely do not recommend.