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.

We got connected with Mr. Tanick through his online business inquiry, and he reviewed our case, then called us by saying "I will take your case", and then provided to us his thinking of what he would do with the case. The next day, we were in his MPLS office for one hour, we did not learn anything a...bout our case and his advices within that hour, but instead, we learned and obtained 20 pages of his previous OPINION and newspaper publications, of cause, we have to pay him the LAWYER fee. Before we left, we gave him additional pages of case related documents we wanted him to review, and he said he would do it in his spare times. The following day, we called him again and hoped that by then he would be finished his reading and would generated some good ideas about how to proceed with the case, but to our great surprise, he said he did not take any paper from us, he was busy and needed to go. After that we never heard anything from him any more. Lawyers are hungry for cases, some charges you for the first time interview, some don't. In this case, Mr. Tanick lured customer by saying "I will take you case", then take the money, run away fast without doing anything significant to us, made us fully understand what 'Ripple Off" means, especially to someone who just lost job and faced financial difficulty. Mr. Tanick seriously violated his professional code of conduct, and need to be condemned by his bad behave. Really shamed of you!