Alonzo Houff Zahour

Not only did Mr. Zahour leave me at the courthouse after I took off work with no notice because he had another case, he seemed to let the other lawyer know as well as the other person I was in a case with, but not his own client? He has also called me yelling at me for not submitting paperwork when i...t was his responsibility to gather the documentation. Not only that, I had to call this lawyer about 20 different times complaining about verbal abuse from my ex and the attorney told me to "deal with it", and to not go to the cops - YES. He said avoid the police because a court does not like to see that type of stuff. Then he allowed allowed the father of my child to pay me very little support via PAY PAL for over a year - no justice for health insurance, day care, nothing. He will hurry you off a phone call within 2 minutes and charge you $25. BE CAUTIOUS, this guy manages drug dealers and just about every judge hates him. My 18 month old son is now going to be allowed unsupervised visits with his drug addict father even though both a court appointed mediator/doctor and a home case study worker advised against it all because Alonzo didn't take the time to represent me correctly. And to top it off, this lawyer did not speak up for me ONCE in court yet told me to "speak my mind" saying that the judge didn't like me. No Alonzo, the judge does not like YOU!

Terrible Lawyer, Very Lazy, never returns calls, or email, and lacks communication, late to court dates, or sends his partner, I would send him emails, with No response other than his assistant was out with an illness and they were busy, Not my fault! I had sent him the same email once a week for a ...month No response. He got aggravated with what I was asking for in my case, working against me. He ended up dropping me as a client cause I didn't pay him, He got a retainer and $ 100.00 of my money and that is all he is getting. on top of it when he sends me the bill its not even correct. He is very unprofessional and all over the place, sloppy. court was always a joke! needless to say I hired another attorney who got the job done in a few months apposed to Alonzo's 1 year of doing absolutely nothing.

My ex took my child out of state so I hired Alonzo with helping me have her returned. My ex never showed up to any court date. The matter dragged on for over two years. He never dealt with matters urgently and I would learn about court dates through the courts website. When I would show it would just... get continued. Last court date he got a support order for the amount of 0 dollars. After that, I got a letter from him saying his job was done and good luck in the future. That's nice Alonzo, but what about the custody/visitation order you filed? I would have gladly paid support, I just wanted to see my son (which I still haven't in three years and have resorted in filing motions myself. Funny enough, I got the mother to show by myself and have been present in front of the judge conversing about the case more than I had with him as a lawyer). It honestly seemed like the process dragged on so long that he forgot why I hired him. Side note: one reason why it dragged on longer than it should have was because he couldn't make it at least two times (each continuance causes another month or two delay) and he also had another lawyer show to a few dates. He didn't make me aware of it so while I was waiting for him it was unexpected when she presented herself when my case was called. She however was much nicer. Wish I knew her contact information. I'd recommend her.

This is the 1st time I write a review of an attorney. This person is so irresponsible, never gets back to you, and when he does he is in a hurry in which you can't even ask a question. He tells you he will handle something in court and that will call you..... Yeah, sit and wait...... One of the worst... things is that he misses a lot of your court dates. And that always looks bad in front of a judge. He lies a lot. I used to think I was the only one passing thru this but as I see I'm not. He will hold your case for a long time and the worst with out you knowing anything because he doesn't inform you of any status. You have to keep on calling him. His secretaries oh wow they never know anything, they are rude. I guess they receive a lot of calls daily with clients that are not satisfy with the process of their case. People don"t hire him if you don't want to be in stress. Keep in mind there are many attorneys out there that i'm sure they will work your case better.