Jorge Luis Gonzalez

I hired this attorney for a simple child support and custody modification, but he took 2 years to resolve my case, I had to call The Florida Bar to file a complaint and that's when he decided it was time to work on my case. He only cares about his retainer fee and his attorney's fees from both s...ides. My experience with Mr. Gonzalez and his staff was a nightmare and unless you want to waste your money and time hire this attorney.

I went to seek representation from Mr Gonzalez regarding a case where I was seeking custody of my children due to years of the mother neglecting the children's needs. He is personable unlike his Bird Road staff super incompetent and unprofessional. He asked me for a retainer I paid it and we continu...ed. He represented me throughout the case until the end when I received temporary custody of my children. Which I received them due to the mother not appearing to the hearings and lack of compliance with the judges rulings . Which was not in anyway due to Mr. Gonzalez's performance in a court room. My reason for this review is to educate other before making an error In retaining this lawyer. His firm took advantage of me / client at a crucial stage of their case. Their practices lack of follow through and moral work ethic is a joke and extremely frustrating.... I called his office over twenty times (for three seperate issues about my case) informing them I needed their assistance with NO return call ever! Now that the mother is trying to fight for her children back by obtaining another lawyer and he now has to do some real litigation he threw me a curve ball and billed me over $3500.00 in legal fees and a new retainer to be paid in 7 days! When I received my itemized bill the retainer had been exhausted 3 months earlier. I questioned his office on why they didnt inform me of the retainer being exhausted prior so i could setup a payment plan? That is poor pay roll issues on his end and due to their error I now had to pay this large sum instead of a fraction.. He himself couldn't even call me back when I went to speak with him in person at his office to question what had happened. Instead they removed themselves as my representation before the deadline of payment leaving me in a real bind after all my efforts to obtain timeshare with my children. I wouldn't recommend this law firms services to my own enemies.