Tom was very courteous and nice to me. It was my first time with any legal trouble and he acted like my friend. He asked for payment right away, which I expected, but then seemed to never put work into my case. I called him every 4 or 5 days for the month leading up to the court date to get updates. ...There were no updates. A week before my case, he told me he had to be a county over defending an inmate. By that point there was no way I could get a new lawyer. On the day of the case, he was over an hour late, and did absolutely nothing to help my efforts. I happened to watch a young man with the exact same case stand before the judge who hadn't hired a lawyer, and we got the exact same punishment. Tom took my money, which for me was a significant amount, and did nothing worthwhile for me. He embodied the bad things I've heard about lawyers all my life.