Joel Grim Bowden

In the 8 months or so I had hired Joel Bowden regarding an accident which was caused by another, I never once met Mr Bowden until the last day. You see his Paralegals handle everything for the most part. I had to have surgery which didn't help my pain and I will have to suffer with this for the rest ...of my life thanks to Bowden and his team. I worked very hard at doing all the leg work for his paralegal, she usually would avoid my calls until she wanted to return my call (usually the following week) I obtained enlargements of the accident scene and I actually felt like I was working for myself with all the work I put in on my own case, this went on for over 1/2 a year, I was called on a Friday that the 'other sides' attorney wanted to ask me questions on that following Monday. I was not prepared or instructed by either the paralegal Teresa or Joel Bowden as to how I should conduct myself during this Deposition.. the other lawyer came in and obviously he knew mr Bowden, they were talking about another lawyer and golf while I sat way past the time I was instructed to be there.. the lawyer asked me questions and I answered them truthfully. after I was told to sit in another meeting room and mr Bowden came in and told me that I shouldn't have answered 1 or 2 questions the lawyer asked me, Well I guess if I would have been given instructions or formally introduced to my own lawyer before hand then I would have had a better understanding of what I was going into, instead joel threw me into the devils den, for me to fend for myself. all of a sudden my case went from being a ''Good Case'' as I was always told to being not so good and he doubt I would get far if he went to court, I asked him that I would prefer going to court and have a jury trial. he said he didn't want to take it that far... so all the evidence, even sworn affidavit, the photo evidence that was gathered for all those months was for nothing, he offered me $1,500 and there is no telling what he walked away with, these people are only set up to accept settlements, they may say they go to court however their bark is just that, a worthless bark!!! I wouldn't refer these clowns to anyone, not even an enemy. My surgery ended up ruining my credit because of my inability to pay and I could have never imagined that I would be treated this way. I thought they had my best interest at heart, seeing that I was the client... Nope- In reading these reviews I was surprised that their common theme was to have the client do all of the work and in the end the hope the adjuster will want to settle..... this though me a valuable lesson to not trust any lawyer because of the way I was treated...