Paul was my divorce attorney. He is kind, compassionate and patient to a fault! I would recommend him to anyone. It is too bad lawyers get such a bad wrap when there are good ones out there and Paul is an excellent example. He is courteous and professional. During this most difficult time he was help...ful beyond words. I hope I don't need to hire him again but if I do require legal services in the future he is hands down the lawyer I would be contacting.

I highly recomend Mr. Phipps. I had a child custody / suppport case for which i tried to resolve by myself and filed a lot of paperwork and dragged for about a year and a half until my daughters mother started threatening me about resorting to extorsion and diffamation to get her way ( she wanted for... me to have supervised visitations every other weekend , wanted to move to tallahassee, wanted for me NOT to have decison making authority and wanted a $900.00 a month child support payment , she stopped working so that it would look that she had no income ). i looked at several other lawyers but their retainer was too high for me on my financial situation at the time .Mr. Phipps came recomended by a co worker of mine who had been represented by Phipps and won his case allowing him to have a 50/50 shared custody of his daughter ( which was my goal as well) Upon contacting Mr. Phipps his secretary was promt on scheduling a phone conference with him so he could look over my case free of charge to determine if he could help me. He listned and scheduled me into his office to look at the paperwork I had already filed. He was conpasionete and conserned, the hearing was in less than a week when i went to talk to him . he quickly worked with me on a retainer i could afford since i had filed a lot of the paperwork already correctly on my own . imediately ccontacted pinellas clerk of couirt and moved my hearing date re did my my child support calculations and imputed her minimun wage since she could not produce tax returns proving she didn't have an income or the inhability to work He prepared a portfolio which blew away the magistrate since everything he asked was in front of him before he asked for it (on the magistrates own words "i'm not used to this level of organization i wish all my cases for the rest of the day would be like this ") he navigated the magistrated through all the evidence and i was in and out of that courtroom in under 45 minutes with everything I asked for. Thanks to Mr. Phipps i'm able to see my daugher 3 days a week I have shared custody and an affortable and fair child support payement and the hablility to have a say so on the decisions that affect my daughters life ( i was not married to the mother so i had no parental rights on the eyes of the law before this aside from paying child support ) . All that and i got money left over on my retainer which he promptly refunded after my final judgment was received . If you want to make sure the court system doesn't rail road you, need someone that will work with you and that will be real about expectations and find the best way for you to approach your case without leaving you bank rupt . this is your lawyer .

I could offer a ton of reasons which would provide, in my opinion, valid justification for what I am about to share with you. Please please please, heed my advice and pass over this attorney. Lets began. One, he rarely available or willing to show compassion and dedication to your case. I could imagi...ne, judging from personal experience, that a divorce is completely DEVASTATING! Your entire life is suddenly in shambles and things become that much worse if your case would involve a minor child. With that being said, you would want an attorney that would dedicate themselves to making sure they not only have your best interest at heart, but that they would also try their best to diligently make the best of the situation. Well, also speaking from experience, I could tell you this...you wont find that in Paul Phipps. I could remember Phipps taking a two week vacation in the middle of my case. At least that what he told me. I found this out after spending two weeks trying to email and call him with absolutely NO RESPONSE! I fired him after that but, I hired him back because I did not have the money to retain another attorney. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. I wasn't like most clients. I was fairly intelligent and I expected results. I kept up with my case and expected Phipps to do the same. To my surprise, he didnt. Phipps just completed the bare minimums and left things that way. You shouldn't expect any and every attorney to be aggressive, instead you should definitely expect the attorney to fight for you (again, it's about your best interest). I felt, more times than often, that Phipps would tell me things just to give me hope and to stop my persistence that I had with every little concern that I had in my case. Again, these were my expectations for someone I am paying for their assistance, I will not continue on and on about things Phipps did wrong in my case because I might lose your interest and things might start to sounds as if I am complaining. I just say one last thing. When my case was heard in court (because as you would assume my former spouse was willing to be cooperate and decided to be mature during the divorce process <-- Sarcasm), Phipps completely crumbled. I was attacked and picked apart on the witness stand by the opposing attorney, he would not argue the issues that I felt was important to me so I was stuck with the outcome that did not work in my favor. Because of his actions or lack their of, we were not allowed to argue the fact that my former spouse left the jurisdiction of Hillsborough. Therefore, my former spouse was allowed to move, without argument, with my child outside of Hillsborough County. The things that I endured during my divorce as Phipps being my attorney still enticing anger within me. Instead, I vowed to use this and any other venue to spread the word about Phipps work ethics. This way, hopefully no one else would go through what I went through. If you chose not to heed my advice, then I hope things would work out better in your favor than things worked for me. If they don't, please help others not to receive poor assistance from Phipps. Thank you for your time

I was going through a messy divorce and didn't have a lot of money since I wasn't getting any help from my ex and have 2 kids. Mr Phipps was kind enough to take my case for a very minimal fee . To him it was more about helping than the money which is very rare now a days. I had called several lawye...rs and the amount of money they wanted to charge me was just unbelievable, and they too claimed they were giving me a good deal. He was like and angel that was sent to me through a very difficult time in my life. He is very kind and caring and honest. I would highly recommend him to anyone that is looking for a great lawyer.