James Harold Sandlin Jr.

I am not going to pass judgement here I will just state the facts: Vague contracts which allow him to charge anything for anything like a 5 minutes call to push him to do his job and which costs 250$. Your balance will be drained fast mysteriously He never has a strategy or a plan for anything, “a...ll depends” on something or another. As far as his negotiations skills He made an agreement with my ex’s lawyer to allow me to see my kids especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I was never been able to for the simple reason that he never ratified the agreement in court in front of a judge. His skills: He used templates from other cases to submit my paperwork and I had to attract his attention to delete wordings from the other case. Later on he was supposed to send a letter to the ex to force her let me see my daughter, 2 month later I asked him for a record of the letter, I was shocked to see wordings such as “Your ex husband says that he”, but the acing on the cake was the wrong address where the letter was sent. Because of that specific issue, he fired me and kept my deposit, as I said just the facts."

Jimmy Sandlin represented me on a case in which he estimated the cost of his representation and had me sign a vague contract with no stipulation for a per hour rate after the retainer fee was exhausted. At our initial consultation he even informed me that the retainer was "plenty" for the work that n...eeded to be done. After only drafting one settlement for me and receiving a counter, I was ready to sign, and felt I had gotten EVERYTHING I wanted. In our meeting, Sandlin wanted me to continue to negotiate. I had to strongly insist that I was ready to sign the agreement. He then asked me to pay 20% more than we had agreed to, citing the signed contract even though there was no stipulation for additional costs. He also never kept a transparent accounting of how my retainer was spent.