Timothy Andrew Shimko

I hired Shimko to represent me against a toy company for breach of contract. I traveled from London, England, to Athens, Greece, where he was meeting with another client, to discuss my case with him [he'd originally insisted that I should pay for him to travel to the UK.] After learning about my case..., he said I had a reasonable chance of success and accepted to litigate the case. Three or so years later, I complained why he'd done noting to advance the case. He then instructed my to travel to the US East Coast to meet with his assistant and the toy company's lawyers. His assistant took me to an office in a rundown building in the city, where we met with a shady character introduced to me as "the defendant's" lawyer. Our "fact-finding" meeting took less than five minutes. Meanwhile, Shimko asked me to pay him $10,000, as we had agreed, which I did. A week or so after the "fact-finding" meeting he called me to say he didn't think I had any chance of success. This is a historic case which happened between 1997 - 2002. I'd intended to chalk it up to experience.