Christopher John Karpinski

I hired Mr. Karpinski on 11/26 to represent my grandson. He assured me he was well connected with the State Attorney and could resolve the case. In December by zoom meeting in 45 seconds he told the judge he had not received the case yet, understandable. January by zoom was a repeat of December. Fe...bruary he told the judge by zoom, again 45 seconds, he had just gotten the case and had not had a chance to review. In the meantime he did not interview my grandson and ignored all but one of his calls. My grandson's wife finally got in touch with him and gave him information in a 3 minute telephone call and Mr. Karpinski told the judge in that zoom meeting he was interviewing witnesses. I then wrote Mr. Karpinski a letter expressing my disatisfaction with his handling of the case. I did not hear from him. I then called him to discuss progress, he did not return my call. Finally on the morning of the April zoom meeting I contacted people involved with the case and found he had not tried to interview anyone and I texted Mr. Karpinski to say he was fired. THEN HE CALLED ME. He said he called an outside vendor and they might be willing to take my grandson as a client once again, but he had not gotten a definitive answer from them and oh well he hadn't talked to the State Attorney about it either yet. At that point I had paid him $2100.00. I amassed the telephone time he spent with me, my grandson, his wife, and estimated the time of the outside vendor at 15 min. to be generous. I have any emails I sent him. He never could associate my name, with my grandson's case so if he read over the case, I doubt he read it in depth. I am being generous to say he spent an hour and a half on the case in total. I told him I expected a refund of most of the money I paid him considering his hourly rate, I thought $1500 refund was fair. It has been two and a half months and he has not even called to offer an excuse why he hasn't repaid the money. It's pretty good to take on clients, take their money and do little for it. You could make a fairly good living at it.