Brian Robert Pingor

Brian was appointed through Regional Council as my daughters Attorney (Public Defender). I know these lawyers are over worked and under paid for the Services they provide. They don't always have time to visit Clients in jail before the court dates, so what. Brian has years of experience, is well con...nected in and with the Legal System in Pinellas County. He knows most of the Judges and Prosecutors. Count your blessings if you get him assigned as a Public Defender. He gets results. My daughter was facing one year plus of Prison Time, Brian negotiated a six month County Jail sentence. Much less than many of my daughter's "cell mates" who had similar charges and situations. I did find him to be short on time (all of these lawyers are) but he was always responsive to my inquiries and questions. At the end of the day - RESULTS are what COUNTS. And this is where Brian excels. Thank you Brian!!

Mr. Pingor was given my daughters case as Regional Council by the Public Defender’s office due to a conflict of interest. He was given her case on October 12th 2017. Her pre-trail hearing was on November 20th (39 days later). In those 39 days Mr. Pingor did not contact my daughter who was sitting in ...jail, not even one time. I had spoken to his office a couple times and my daughter tried calling his office from the jail three times but was unable to speak to anyone. What kind of lawyer leaves a client in jail for over 30 days without contacting them? When her court date arrived Mr. Pingor was late by over an hour and when he arrived he was wearing a tee-shirt. He told the judge he was not aware of this case until just that day. This is an outright lie. There was no excuse for his not speaking to my daughter prior to her court date, no excuse for showing up late and no excuse for his appearance in the court that day. We plan to register complaints again Mr. Pingor with the Florida Bar Association. Two weeks before my daughters court date I went to another pre-trial hearing to observe. Mr. Pingor had a client he was supposed to represent on this day and he was not present this day either and his client was assisted by another attorney in the court room.

Apathetic to say the least. I chose this attorney because of his excited attitude on the phone. Long story short I was waiting in my car for my ride to come and get me, and the fact that I had been sitting outside waiting on them caused him to say "Oh that's an easy one! You paid the tab at 1100 and ...the cop found you in the parking lot after midnight shows you weren't going to drive anywhere". So that, and researching him on FB made me think he was the guy for me. Boy was I wrong. He put off the PTC for 7 months. I thought it was gathering info, doing paperwork stuff etc. In fact, the letter he was to send to the state that said I was waiting on my cousin never got sent. I asked for copies of the letter, asked if I should send the letter, asked what info was needed from me for the letter.....all I ever got was that "Brian will take care of that". Being that he never asked me for the name of the person coming to get me (information he said he would NEED for the letter) it's safe to assume it never got sent. As of today (almost 8 months after my DUI arrest) I've still received no copies of the letter. Also, I spoke to this guy ONE TIME before my case. Kelly the receptionist was the only helpful person there. He basically blew smoke up my behind and acted like he was doing something when in fact there was NOTHING GOING ON. My attorney friend said likely he kept postponing the PTC so that he could line a few clients up for one day. Who knows... On the date of my ptc, 7 months after my arrest, he showed up late to the courthouse and walked right by me and proceeded to talk with the bailiff guys. Basically ignored me. By the time he finished talking with them he got a plea agreement and told me we were gonna just "get it all done today" like we were going to ask for some kind of break. Basically the guy had me sign a form that plead me guilty...basically there was no need whatsoever for me having an attorney. I could just as easily have plead guilty from day one and LITERALLY been done with my suspension! I thought what we were doing was getting adjudication withheld but that wasn't the case. Long story short, I am speaking to a local attorney and will file a complaint with the BAR. DO NOT use this guy as an attorney. He is terrible and in my case did absolutely none of the things he said he would.