Jeffrey Van Hawkins

I was desperately in need of an attorney so I decided to call of Slater and Zurz. I wish I had never called because Jeffery Hawkins lost my case which should have been easy to win. He never defended me and gave into easily to other attorneys. He never fought my case and I had to continuously send the... same email over and over again and got charged because he wasnt listening to what I was saying. He was more concerned about getting paid than help me and my family. My kids were in harms way and he did nothing but try to get me out the door. Always too busy to talk. Don’t do the same mistake I did. Don't let someone like him defend you and your family because you will lose the case even though I as the mother had all the evidence and we still lost because he wasn’t defending. He was rushing out the court house so he could go on vacation. He would rather talk about Taco Bell and his family than my case and my family that he is getting paid for to defend. I am writing this review to hopefully help others before it is too late.

If you are looking for someone to F*ck your case up literally look no further. Jeff here is THAT man. Poor communication at it's finest. My initial phone interview went well with Jeff. So well I scheduled a 2nd and by the end of the 2nd I hired him. He blew so much smoke up my rear about what he co...uld do it was unreal. When it came time to actually put those words into action he failed at an epic level. He is too interested in his own custody shannanigans with his grand child to be worried about YOUR issues. Need an appeal filed? My as well file your own... I had to file my initial appeal myself. My subsequent appeal that needed filed by Jeff was filed late which in turn got my case dismissed. After case was dismissed Jeff slapped me with a bill requesting an additional $567.00. I do not feel comfortable paying for services not properly rendered.

Hawkins decided that 8 minutes before my first divorce hearing via Skype would be a good time to learn how to set up a Skype account. He failed miserably . Being 25 minutes late didn't make the magistrate very happy and he let Hawkins know it throughout the whole hearing and it showed in his ruling. ...He was under prepared and over matched by opposing counsel. He basically went down in a ball of flames after being smoked by my ex's attorney. His handling of paper work was pitiful rendering it usless. Needless to say he did me more harm than good and was promptly fired. Avoid Hawkins at all costs.

My wife and I hired Jeff to help us with a custody battle. He did NOT listen to us, nor did he do anything to help win our case. He sat on all of our info and never presented our case to the courts. Once he realized that he lost our case, before our final hearing, he asked to be paid in full; almost ...$3,000. We told him we cannot pay that much during the holiday season, so he emailed us the following Monday and demanded $500 to be paid by the end of the day or he would drop us. We are now stuck having to defend ourselves and are looking at losing custody of our son. Thanks for nothing Jeff!

Mr.Hawkins defended me on a child support case that lasted almost 3 years.I was being sued for 18 years of back child support.He attended every pretrial hearing on my behalf and always filed an apropiate response to the plaintiffs attorney.He most diffently let the opposition know that we where not s...ettling and we're ready to take this to trial.Resulting in the plaintiff and daughter from withdrawing this lawsuit.Mr.Hawkins was there for me from the beginning to the end.I highly recommend Mr.Hawkins and the entire law firm of Slater and Zurz.