Destin Michelle Gillum

Destin is the most unprofessional and least helpful person imaginable. She is unable to return phone calls or emails regardless of how many attempts to reach her. However, she is quick to reach out for payment after she ignores the inquires about your case. She does not take accountability for her ac...tions and is quick to place blame. She submitted my counter claim to the WRONG ATTORNEY and did not catch her mistake for over 3 months, and this caused monumental problems for my case. Upon being fired i requested my documents be sent to my new representation. My new attorney and I reached out for over 3 weeks requesting documents, and she neglected to respond or send documents. Eventually the documents were sent by Destin, but no accountability for her negligence was displayed. My new attorney did more in 1 week than Destin did in 1 year. Unprofessional, irresponsible and immature are putting it lightly. Stay away at all cost

We retained Destin for a crucial legitimation/custody case and paid her $2500 retainer just to get started. She failed to respond to ANY of my emails and failed to follow through with 3 scheduled phone calls. Basically she did nothing. We contacted her for advice when I was summoned for a hearing to ...take place in 3 business days in Fla where my girlfriend was hiding with my child to determine how she would handle that or if she could not - what we needed to do in the 3 days we had before appearance. Both my mother and I expressed concern and urgency to no avail. We heard NOTHING from her and were forced to terminate her representation and seek another attorney on an urgent basis. We got more help over the phone with a firm we had not retained than we ever got from Ms Gilliam. Now as we are trying to get refunded she still has not replied to a SINGLE email or phone call and it is our intention to report our experience to the bar. DO NOT waste your time with this attorney!