Jared Edward Hammett

I've had quite enough of attorneys who return your emails and phone calls when they bloody well feel like it, if at all, as if you work for them. No, they work for you. Why do they persist with this imperious, arrogant attitude? Because no one calls them out on it, that's why. Mostly because ...people who go to attorneys already have enough on their plate. When I hired Jared, I told him it was with the stipulation that he not pull this all-too-common hallmark of attorney arrogance, of blowing off clients. Specifically, I told him I expected him to return my calls/ emails within at least 2 or 3 business days. He agreed. Well, we got started, and not a peep out of him for about a month, when he was making inroads for me, but not advising me. I complained, and he promised better. Then I sent an email with some questions. After hoping and praying in vain for 10-days that he might deign to respond, I promptly fired him. He didn't change one thing about how he normally blows off clients, even after personally agreeing to respond to me in a timely manner. So after firing him, I got the first correspondence, finally, including a letter from the opposing party, which I didn't know about, saying they would offer me a rather meager sum to part ways. I took it, as I no longer had representation, and thought it was better than nothing. I have a theory that during intro to law, they have a class on how to never respond to your clients. Some naive student in the front row sticks up his hand and says, "But professor, these people who come to us are going through difficult times in their lives, and have paid us thousands in retainers. Shouldn't we act like we actually work for them, and treat them with some courtesy?" Then a trap door opens under his seat and he falls into fire in the basement like on Austin Powers. Just a theory.