Robert Kerr Michael

I hired Attorney Bo Michael after being wrongfully dismissed from a teaching position at an Orlando College that I'd held for 7 years due to the unethical behavior of another school employee. I met with him and he seemed enthusiastic about my case and competent despite a cheap suit and bad hair dye ...job. When it came time to collect a $1000 retainer, his paralegal, Lauren Martinez, was quick to send emails and respond to questions. But then nothing else was ever done for me except to send a one single paragraph letter to the college's Human Resources department, which didn't even get a response. My wife and I made several phone calls and sent multiple emails over 3 months to see what progress, if any, the case was making. No one ever answered the phone, it always went straight to voicemail. No one ever returned any of the phone calls and only after many months would an email be answered. And then the wrong information would be sent or attachments of documents that needed to be signed would be left off. There was no way to speak to the Attorney except through the completely incompetent and unprofessional paralegal. After seven months of a very frustrating lack of communications, we fired them in registered letter and they acted dumbfounded. Do not choose to have this poorly run practice represent you. The money we spent on this bad experience was tough to come by at the time and was a painful loss for my family. It would have been a better use of a thousand dollars to put it in a trashcan and light it on fire than to give it to these unethical people.

I hired Robert "Bo" Michael in after having been fired from my university job (supposedly for poor job performance though I had worked there for six years) and cheated out of $4,000.00 in unused vacation pay. Additionally, my former employer falsely claimed "misconduct" as the reason for my dismissa...l when I had filed for Unemployment compensation. I was frantic, but Bo took charge during the appeal process, meaning a telephone conference call with my former employer and the unemployment office in Tallahassee. He simply pointed out that in all the paperwork in my personnel file, nothing had ever been mentioned regarding "misconduct". My employer's head of HR was obviously embarrassed at having been "caught with her pants down". Four days after that conference call, I received a letter stating that the original decision was officially reversed! I am convinced that if Bo had not been on the call, I would not have received a penny. Since my unemployment compensation lasted over two years, I consider my fee a modest investment indeed! Unfortunately, since Florida is a Right-to-Work state, he had no legal grounds to get me my $4,000.00 back, but that was nobody's fault.