Marshall H Tanick

Being an 'expert' in libel law we had a brief conversation about hiring him for the possibility of suing someone for slander. At that time he was courteous, friendly and appeared to actually want to help. My main concern was statue of limitations, a few lawyers told for FREE that my case was past the... statue of limitations. Mr Tanick told me there was a clause that could extend the statute and to give him $500 so he could research the case and see if it applied. During the almost EIGHT MONTHS i waited for his determination i would call him periodically, literally maybe once a month to ask the status. Each and every call not only he wouldn't tell me the status of his research but i was repeatedly scolded and belittled for calling him and asking what the status was. I was not to call him. It was as if i was speaking to a different person. And that i was a child who was in need of reprimanding. He sent me many copies of legal opinions he had written for Law Journals but nothing regarding our case. EIGHT MONTHS after paying him the $500 'research fee' i was mailed a letter stating that the statue of limitations had expired. No mention of the legal clause he assured me was a possibility of extending the statute of limitations, nothing more than a statement saying, I cant help you, the limitations had expired 2 years ago, which i knew already, have a nice day, any other services required please 'call'. This lawyer is a sham. He is a cheat. He is a phony. He is two faced. For $10,000 i wouldn't refer him to anyone for any legal matter. He had acted in such bad faith that this is the first ever review i have written, i am 36. Nothing in his letter mentioned how he attempted to clear my name, attempted to show his work regarding the clause he 'researched' for, nothing that would show his work. Nothing to provide my family that i tried to clear our name or to the family court judge that i was trying to clear my name due to this matter affecting my parenting time decisions the judge was making.

I came to Marshall about issues involving tips and a tax penalty both caused by my employer. He called me twice in about two and a half months after the consultation. The first, five weeks after the consultation he called me to tell me about a similar case with another company that ended in favor of ...the employee, the same case I told him about in the consultation that made me think I might have a case. The second time he called me while I was at work and I told him I could talk for 2 minutes, then he and a lawyer friend of his spent 35 minutes trying to set up a conference call with me so he could ask me two questions that I had already answered and wrote down for him at the initial consultation. When his lawyer friend asked me if I worked for tips and I said yes Marshall responded "Oh, I didn't know that.". A couple weeks later he sent me a letter saying he wouldn't take the case.