Julie Agent Schlax

Julie is dishonest and not trustworthy. She was selling her dad's Mini Cooper, I sent her a $300 deposit. The car was sold to someone else, and Julie refuses to return my deposit. This is fraud. If she can't be trusted with a small deposit, how can she be trusted with a large retainer? A police repo...rt has been filed against Julie, and we are working on filing a complaint against the Florida Bar and other governing agencies.

Our 14yr old daughter was sexually assaulted by a man whom she met at school. When my husband was informed of this devastating news he immediately went to this mans place of employment with a tire tool. Having never seen the man but knowing his name, my husband hit a man twice in the elbow with the t...ire tool, it was the wrong man. He caused minor damage to this person, immediately apologized, and turned himself in. He was under extreme duress, had just had back surgery and was heavily medicated, our son had just gotten out of ICU after having a near death seizure, and he had just found out our daughter was raped. My husband has no criminal record at all prior to this and the prosecutor mentioned having a mental health evaluation because of the medication, which she also did not inform us of. We hired Julie at an enormous fee, she did little work for or with us, she did not inform us of a plea offered by the state, she recommended we plead no contest and be at the mercy of the judge, I actually obtained copies of emails sent between her and the prosecutor telling him what a strong case the state has; that is not DEFENSE! She rarely returned a call or email, and now our life is ruined because she is a part time attorney with no defensive criminal trial experience. My husband who had a 13 year career, insurance for our family, is a great provider, husband, father, best friend, prayer partner, church trustee, and outstanding member of this community, is now sitting in prison for 34.5 months with 10 years of probation. All of this because this attorney failed to do her job, convinced us to trust her, failed to stand up to the prosecutor at sentencing, and took advantage of the fact that we are Christian people with absolutely no experience with the judicial system. We are devastated, our life and our children's lives, especially that of our severely handicapped son and our daughter (who is now in rape and Christian counseling, are devastated. Please do not make the same mistake we made. Just because an attorney has a good rating from a few clients and business associates does not mean they are a good attorney, the majority of the people represented can not speak because they are probably incarcerated. If you have a serious legal matter, do not hire Julie Schlax. She is very sweet and is a wolf in sheeps clothing, took our money and hasn't looked back.