David Byron Bice

We hired Mr. Bice and it was about the biggest waste of money I have ever experienced. I threatened to fire him several times and this is what it took just to get him to return my calls or emails. In the end he wrote 1 letter and had a judge sign one document and charged me over $2000. I had to dema...nd invoices and then was basically charged every time he finally contacted me. The fee for the actual document work was correct but I did ALL the leg work in my case. So my bill should have been $5-700. Then I was nickel and dimed for his own lack of communication. He could use a BIG lesson in customer service. All I could say to him was I was very disappointed. He is the very reason Lawyers get such a bad name. In the end I was refunded very little of my retainer by him producing an invoice that I hadn't even seen. Do not hire this guy. He doesn't care about his customers and he isn't very nice to deal with either.

Bice could be an outstanding lawyer. When you actually get his attention, he is great. He represented me against my ex-wife who filed a frivolous lawsuit. Without exaggeration, I had to manage the case. I had to remind him five or six times of the basic facts, even though it was a simple case. ... He just wasn't paying attention. When I hinted at filing a grievance with the State Bar, he snapped into action and was absolutely OUTSTANDING from then on. But prior to that, it was over a year of him seeming like he just had no idea what my case was about. So he CAN do it, he just chooses not to. And the worst of it was getting outrageous bills for nothing. I got a $200 bill one month and asked him what it was for, and he said he mailed a letter asking for a document. I asked for the letter, and it was one sentence. He charged me an hour to type one sentence, and put a stamp on an envelope. Now that's just wrong, it could not have taken him more than 2 minutes. He also forgot to file for an extension, which meant the day before I was supposed to be in court, I was in the hospital calling the court myself to arrange the extension, because Bice was nowhere to be found. His response was, "well, there was not harm, so no liability for me." But had I not checked on it myself, and solved the problem myself, my case would have been lost because he was off and even his secretary had no idea what he was doing or why he was't there, or if he'd be back in time to solve the problem. Was he out fishing? I never found out. He seems to think that his time is worth way more than what he agrees is his billable rate, so he makes everything take five times as long, and then puts in a half-effort. So do the math, you're really paying him ten times more than what he agreed to.

David Bice did an excellent job representing me in a very complex case involving an investment controversy. He is very level headed and helped me realize through his calm demeanor that we just had to work through the variety of details and be patient. I felt that his fees were reasonable for the ag...gravation, time and energy that he expended on my behalf. The end result was favorable.