Donald David Knuckey Jr.

Do not waste your time or money on this "attorney." We paid him a retainer over a month ago to start working on my fiance's case. Before we paid him he seemed great. He was very professional and seemed to have a game plan. Before paying him I felt very comfortable with his knowledge and communication.... After paying him though everything went down hill. I would text or call him at least once a week to check in about updates on the case and he wouldn't respond. If he did respond he would say things like "I'm optimistic about..." I figured he was working on the case. Last week, exactly 1 month after paying him and with court coming up this week, I decided I needed to push a little harder. He told my fiance he was waiting to hear from the State's Attorney, that was a lie. Finally he calls me back last Friday. By this time I had already spoken to the State's Attorney office, the circuit clerks office, and my fiance's public defender. NONE OF THEM KNEW THIS GUY WAS MY FIANCE'S LAWYER! He never entered himself on the case which takes a whole 5 minutes to do. When he calls last Friday he tries to dance around the subject of not working on this case saying "time had slipped away from him" and "he hopes to have been further on this case." That's when I asked him flat out has he done ANYTHING or spoke to the State's Attorney. He said NO. He had a month to work on this and all he did was take our money and not doing ANYTHING. I requested a refund and of course didn't get a response until I threatened him that I would be filing a complaint with the ARDC. 2 days later he texts me saying he is going to try to get the check in the mail. I told him no I wanted the refund the exact same way I gave it to him, in cash. I picked up my refund yesterday but we should have never went through all of this. He is completely unprofessional. Do not trust him. Pay the larger retainer and get a good lawyer.