Jared Dale Vaughn

DO NOT HIRE THIS PERSON. If I could give fewer than zero stars, I would. After a wonderful and encouraging initial conversation, my 80-year-old mother and I pooled all we had, and put our trust in Jared Vaughn to the tune of more than $8K, in advance, to handle an extraordinarily serious legal mat...ter. This was back in May of 2026. Simply put: we trusted Jared Vaughn with the freedom, livelihood, reputation, and future for someone we believe in and love. Once payment had been made, communication all but ceased. Calls and messages went unanswered, attempts to discuss strategy went nowhere, and we received little meaningful information about what was being done. Most seriously, one of the few bits of information we were given was when Jared told his client that a court hearing had been continued and instructed them not to appear. The continuance had not been filed. We later learned that Jared had not even filed a Notice of Appearance. A warrant was issued for failure to appear. His client - our family member, ultimately ended up in jail, lost a week of wages, and came dangerously close to losing their job after relying on the advice of the attorney we had paid to protect them. Another attorney had to be immediately retained to try and salvage the situation and explain to the court that our family member had been egregiously misinformed by his prior counsel. We terminated Jared's representation and demanded the return of the money paid. Months later, the money has still not been returned. We have filed a formal complaint with the appropriate Bar authority because we believe what occurred went well beyond poor customer service or simple disagreement with an attorney. In our view, the conduct raises serious questions about competence, diligence, communication, and professional ethics. Given publicly available information concerning Jared's own legal troubles during the same general period, I am left with a serious question about whether those circumstances affected his ability to competently and ethically represent his clients. I cannot know the answer. What I do know is what happened to our family. I am deliberately withholding the details of the underlying case because the person involved deserves their privacy. But families searching for an attorney deserve to know this much: We hired an attorney because the stakes were too high to take chances. Instead, trusting the attorney we hired made an already terrifying situation substantially worse. I would never entrust someone I love to Jared Vaughn again.

I hired Jared Vaughn for divorce representation and paid him $3,627.10 in full. On March 18, 2025, he sent me draft contested divorce documents. I signed and notarized them within 24 hours. Nothing was ever filed with the court after that. Over the following months, I asked repeatedly for updates.... The responses I did receive were vague, and most of my follow-ups went unanswered. On May 20, 2025, I sent a formal written refund request as allowed under his own flat-fee contract. That request was opened multiple times but never answered. To date, no refund has been issued. Because no case was ever filed, I’ve submitted a grievance to the Alabama State Bar and an application to the Client Security Fund. Both are pending. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend his services.