Robert Craig Battin

I engaged him to complete two easements for a residential property sale. One was to have rights to bring utilities across the land I was selling (needed the utility access to the piece I was keeping) and the other was a driveway access easment. He said I should just write the easement language into... the deed. I told him I was hiring him for his opinion. The engineering work was already completed as just an easement. So 19 hours of billable hours later and 3 months his work was complete. I sent him an email telling him to not review something because I could tell he was working outside the scope I hired him to do. He actually billed me to read the email that I told him to stop working on something. I have had 2 other attorneys review his bill and the final product. They both concluded it was 2-4 job which is what I was expecting. I tried to explain to him if it took 19 hours he is either over-billing or incompetent. I said you can't bill for something beyond the value that your providing. It went no where he said I owed him the bill in full. I have the emails to him asking what the hold up is on time. I called the title company as he referenced that he called them in his billing. The attorney for the title company said she had to provide guidance to him on how to write the deed. I would not recommend Bob for any legal work