Cena Colbert Gray

She has poor communication (until it comes to discussions - frequent - about money) and she does not take the time to explain what is actually happening with your case. She quoted me $5,000 (after my initial $2,500 retainer) fee through Trial - which was dismissed, then remanded back to District Cou...rt. Instead of me having any sort of "credit" since we didn't proceed to Trial, she instead charged me another retainer fee of $2,500. The very first court date, which was a "Preliminary Examination," of the Claimant against me, she had her assistant phone me at 8:50 p.m., the night before to say she was bound over in another Trial and could not attend my hearing the next morning. I guess she didn't know she couldn't make it before 9 p.m.? She essentially sent me to Court without representation, this being after the Judge warned of no more adjournments under any circumstance! Thankfully, the Prosecutor (this one time) asked the Judge to postpone the hearing, knowing I had no counsel to represent me and they agreed. It was at that point, I retained new counsel. I requested Ms. White - now Ms. Gray, refund my money (at the very least, the 2nd retainer fee in good faith, since she essentially did nothing to help my case (she did not even file a Letter of Deviation to ask the Prosecutor to reduce the charges (first offense and the charges were ridiculous, for example, one was a Misdemeanor "Malicious Destruction of Personal Property" for a potted plant that was kicked off the porch - the very first thing my new Attorney did). I then asked her for a detailed statement of where my money was spent and she refused to give me an hourly rate, stating only that she "earned every penny" . She "threw" together 14 pgs. of ramblings with inaccurate dates (the very date of the letter preceded my request but included my demeanor and how I would be crying or angry at the hearings - in an attempt to take the heat off of herself and make it look like she was dealing with a difficult client. As I read through it, I found it comical the way she would overstate what she went through with me but shied away from what the "actual charge" was. The records I kept did not match up. In the end, I paid $9,600 to end up hiring another attorney to clean up a mess that drug on for 19 months!

I hired Cena white to defend me on some serious felonies. All she wanted was money. Every time I went to court all she did was stand there. Her reason for that was because she didn't want to anger the judge. She never fought for me at all. She constantly urged me to plead guilty, even though I wasn'...t. If I hadn't fired her it's very likely I'd be in prison right now. I hired a different lawyer for a fraction of what Cena white charged. Went to trial. Got found guilty of a misdemenor charge. The whole time Cena white represented me, I was terrified. I knew I wasn't guilty and there was no evidence against me. She just didn't care at all. Don't hire her.