Rasheed Karim Allen

He worked for me as an attorney on a wrongful discharge case. He allowed the defense to take control of the case while taking $20,000 of my money as council. I had to hire another attorney to get the case, dismissed without penalty to me. All the while Mr. ALAN was in disciplinary with the Florida ba...r. He never told me this. Do not hire this person.

I hired lawyer asap however without my knowledge he was appointed i paid the initial 1500 and then on going payments to equal 5000.00. So to make a long story short he went through with my case and served me. It was hard to contact him his staff were rude and only would take messages. then 2 weeks b...efore trial he demanded 5000 more dollars or he would have to drop my case. Welp...I declinedto pay and he dropped my case the weekend before trial. he promised inspite of to do his best for me even though he were to be dropped. I trusted him and had high hopes. Well trial came and left and the judge was nasty to me and so was his lawyer. A few days letter the time sharing and calculated cs payments affidavit came in mail. After reading it i didn't like the outcome undenounced to me another was to follow later that day but before then only of knowledge of me receiving one i quickly called allen office and the clerk said for me to pay asap i did that. then hours later another letter from court came with revision and i was ok with that decision so i called allen to get money back he ignored me and clerk never answered me again. he took 1500 from week before my baby bday and had no remorse. i liked him up until this point

I hired Mr. Allen to represent me for a simple Landlord-Tenant case. Mr. Allen took my initial payment and told me that it was necessary to file my case. After 2 weeks, Mr. Allen contacted me again and demanded another substantial payment for an upcoming scheduled hearing. I asked Mr. Allen what beca...me of my initial payment and he quickly dismissed my inquiry stating it had been used in the initial filing. I paid him because I needed to get possession of my property back. To the short of it, I learned that Mr. Allen had filed the initial paperwork but he did not attend the hearing after I paid him. As a result, the court dismissed my case. I emailed him and called numerous times and left messages with his assistants but he never returned my calls or messages. I had to hire another attorney. It turns out he has a history of taking his client’s money and not following through on his cases. In October 2019, the Supreme Court of Florida Publicly Reprimanded him for taking his client’s money and not handling their cases. You can find the disciplinary action on the Florida Bar’s website. I wish I would’ve known.

Before I hired Mr. Allen he was available on the phone to talk in length and would explain everything to me and have you feel that you are in good hands. Once check was cashed there's almost no communication what so ever. He would never answer the phone or call back. EVER! We agreed on 2 separat...e phases. Phase 1 was to file the motion to cancel sale with a requested hearing and second thing was to appeal the denied 30 day extension to the sale date, he estimated $1500 retainer for it and he assured me that this is the amount needed to complete this. Phase 2 for $1000 retainer was to file an appeal in the higher court if the judge denied our motion to cancel sale. We paid $1500 for phase 1, Mr, Allen filed the motion to cancel, so far so good. Then he was supposed to file an appeal for the 30 day extension of the sale that the judge denied, but he didn't do it claiming it was void due to an earlier discharge. Ok, I accepted it knowing now I have some credit. On Feb' 13th we noticed on the Clerk of Court that opposing counsel scheduled a hearing, and with her notes she said "I attempted to resolve this matter by making a good faith effort to contact opposing counsel, Rasheed Allen, by telephone and emails as follow; Feb 8th 2017 placed phone call left a message Feb 8th 2017 sent email requesting telephone conference on Feb 9th 2017 Feb 9th 2017 sent email requesting telephone conference on Feb 10th 2017 Feb 10th 2017 called Mr. Allen in accordance with his requested time and was unable to reach him" I sent him an email (since he refuses to communicate by phone) stating that I saw an update on the clerk whats going on? He replied that the other parties have scheduled a hearing, and began to demand more money, When I asked why he wasn't available for the opposing counsel, and requested that he call her back perhaps they want to settle, he explained that its not necessary to speak to them (?? really) and he also refused to contact them when I asked him to and as my Lawyer he should have done (again he will never make a phone call for any reason!). He then demanded immediate payment of $1,000 to prepare for the upcoming Hearing "the invoice must be paid today. If the invoice is not paid we will assume you don't want us to continue representation". When questioning our credit from phase 1 as he didn't do half of what we agreed, he replied that "The hearing is in 10 days. To file an appeal we must have a court record from the hearing which includes paying a court reporter and obtaining a transcript. As we discussed...." "As we discussed" he always says that thinking he covers his lies when most of the time we NEVER discussed! Not having too many options and didn't want our case dropped and wanted our lawyer to attend the hearing and have court reporter, we paid the $1000 and the nightmare took a shocking turn. The day of the hearing - we hear NOTHING from Mr. Allen when the hearing was at 8:30 am. We check the clerk of court at noon to see our Case has been dismissed, Title issued to 3rd Party with NO OBJECTIONS due to defense lawyer not appearing!! He didnt even show up! He stole our money, lied to us he would be there and never showed up,,,we lost the House immediately! Calls to him ofcourse not returned, He finally emailed us at 3:00 and I quote "had another hearing at the same time (in another county)". Total nightmare. When we tried to confront Mr. Allen about a refund and all the steps that he was supposed to do, he said "The fee agreement says nothing of fees for certain services. That "the $2500 was the hourly retainer for initial research, review and preparation. ??? Total Scam! All lies!! We filed a complaint with the Florida bar and will report this con artist to every possible outlet to prevent him from deceiving and doing damage to other people. He is morally bankrupt, unethical and should be disbarred!

My family and I came to Mr. Allen June 2014 for a legal matter dealing with our home and other matters, he was very professional and very knowledgeable about everything we asked him about and he also kept us informed on every outcome and dates on our case. Mr. Allen is a sharp and spontaneous individ...ual who doesn't mind going that extra mile to help you in anyway he can. We recommend him to the fullest.