Raphael Cullen Connor

I retained Raphael Connor at the Law Offices of John W. Lee PC for help with my divorce process. 1. Mr. Connor went to a pendente lite hearing to represent me after I asked him to reschedule, telling him I was afflicted with a very severe bout of kidney stones and was under the influence of narcot...ics, resulting in a pendente lite order and, thus, didn't request the conditions I'd like to have been attached to the order, that allowed my wife to take actions which harmed my interests in my business. 2. Mr. Connor didn't inform me of the pendente lite hearing before it happened and I had to hear about it with only a few days notice from my wife. 3. Mr. Connor didn't inform me of a letter from my wife's attorney, which had a deadline that led to their request of a show cause hearing. Instead, he said that he never received the letter from my wife's attorney, even though the invoice he sent me indicates that the same day he should have received the letter, he did something concerning it. Thankfully, the show cause was averted when I was able to convince my wife's attorney that I didn't breach the pendente lite order. 4. Mr. Connor rarely replied to my emails and calls in a timely manner, if he replied at all. 5. Despite being told, on numerous occasions, to CC me in all correspondence with my wife's attorney, Mr. Connor failed to do this. 6. Upon requesting advice, Mr. Connor often didn't give advice. 7. When my wife breached the pendente lite order numerous times, ordering her not to engage in harassing behavior, I asked Mr. Connor to file show cause hearings, which he did not do. On more than one occasion I directed Mr. Connor to file a show cause for my wife's breaches, and he ignored me, despite being very clearly directed to do this. After a terrible judicial settlement conference, he told me he didn't file the show cause hearings because he thought he could resolve everything at the judicial settlement conference. Mr. Connor's refusal to file show causes for these breaches made it more costly for me in the end as there was nothing to deter my wife from committing other breaches that caused significant harm. 8. During our Judicial Settlement Conference, Mr. Connor told me that the judge would give my wife our business if I didn't come to an agreement with her that was disadvantageous to me. A business that he knew my name was on most of the documents for. He seemed most interested in closing the case rather than getting the best result for me, his client. 9. During our Judicial Settlement Conference, Mr. Connor just accepted my wife's claims as fact and, without my consent at all, offered her and her attorney something like "how about each party walk away with this, without paying each other anything, and (my wife) gets to keep the business?" His doing so put me in a significant position of weakness in negotiations. 10. Mr. Connor didn't request any interrogatories or discovery from my wife, whilst I was burdened immensely by a large amount of discovery, until after the Judicial Settlement Conference, leaving me in a position of disadvantage when it came time to negotiate at the judicial settlement conference. 11. Mr. Connor's actions cost me significantly more money in the end as I was forced to fire him. His firm offered me a refund and I implored his lawfirm, John W. Lee, to help salvage the case and fix the problems he caused but they didn't do so.