John Ellis Ellsworth

I received a WI state tax bill that I needed to dispute...and to make a long story short I ended up doing all the leg work MYSELF! I was charged $1500 for John Ellsworth to only send a couple e-mails on my behalf. I did all the rest! He missed several letters that were mailed to him from WI DOR. Beca...use I had made him Power of Attorney over my case some of the letters didn't get sent to me. This caused me to miss some very important deadlines for getting in the proper documents. He never negotiated getting my bill lowered. I managed to get some of the bill reduced on my own. Simply put...HE WAS OF NO HELP TO ME.

I gave Ellsworth a $15,000 retainer. After months, he failed to do anything other than request additional documentation and information from me. When he finally sent me an email message apologizing for the delay in handling my filing, the attached draft of the filing paperwork was full of errors and... was not at all in agreement with how I had told him I wanted the case handled. I said enough is enough and told him that I no longer wanted him as my attorney...he responded by hanging up on me! After that, he refused to respond to any of inquiries until I finally had another attorney contact him. Then he sends my new attorney an invoice stating that he used all the $15,000 retainer (to the penny). Keep in mind that no paperwork was ever filed on my behalf nor did he do any work other than corresponding with me...this was just a simple bankruptcy!

This attorney does not return phone calls, emails, faxes and mailed IRS correspondence in a timely manner. This attorney has missed numerous IRS deadlines to respond in a timely manner. This attorney / Law Group has changed its phone numbers, office addresses, fax numbers and email addresses from its... initial Power of Attorney and Attorney Fee Agreement Service Contract without updating the customer or IRS examiner of such changes. Making it virtually impossible for myself or the IRS examiner to reach this attorney in a timely manner. This attorney does not follow up in a timely manner with representation on time sensitive deadlines. He does not return my phone calls, emails, or faxes in a timely manner to meet time sanative deadlines. His office and assistant is very rude and non responsive and email hostile threats instead of resolving issues to its end that were paid in a fee agreement and contract. This attorney did not provide the services rendered per its fee agreement and contract signed. This attorney was paid a fee twice of $2,500.00 for a total of $5,000.00. This attorney emailed me stating that he was too busy to honor the contract that he signed and offered a partial refund. This attorney did not finish the job that he was paid for to its entirety. The IRS examiner and Group Supervisor tried to contact him numerous times via regular mail and phone. This attorney missed IRS deadlines causing me to have to finish the job that this law firm and attorney was paid in advance to complete to its completion. There was a scheduled conference call with the IRS examiner and myself in which this attorney hung up during the recorded conference call. Both myself and the examiner tried to call the attorney back to finish the call but were unable to reach the attorney. This attorney sent me a hostile email refusing to give me the partial refund that he promised of $2,500.00 for not completing the job to its end per the service agreement contract fee agreement signed previously by all parties. I am requesting the partial refund that he offered of $2, 500.00 for not completing the services rendered per his signed fee attorney service agreement contract for the cost of living audit portion of the fee agreement that he never completed to its entirety per his signed attorney fee agreement and service agreement contract .