Simon Byron Brody

I hired Simon to complete a Terms of service for us on Upwork which he got done within a reasonable time frame. I decided to hire him to send out a cease and desist letter to a company that was attacking us. This was his suggestion and he told me it would be completed ASAP since it was a time-sensiti...ve matter. He told me it could get done within 2-3 hours. I ended up getting billed several hours more than we agreed and he didn't even finish the task. I asked him what the hold up was and he started making excuses as to why it was not completed, saying he was overloaded with other projects or with his kids. I noticed I was being charged $145/hour for him to respond to my messages asking for updates. This made no sense to me because he wasn't providing any sort of legal advice during these messages. I decided to pause our contract until the task was completed. He then sent me a very rude message stating I would need to resume the contract AND pay him for his time to respond to this very message. He wanted 30 minutes of his time to respond which would be $72..... He said I would need to pay him before any sort of work or communication would continue. I decided to fire him because this made no sense to me and I explained to him why. He responded saying lawyers don't work for free and consultation is part of his scope and to stop messaging him. So I ended up losing over $500 with no work done. I basically paid Simon $500 to respond to my messages asking for updates. While reviewing his work via screen capture, I noticed he charged me a full hour ($145) to reply to one of his other clients. I've worked with lawyers in the past and none of them charged me $145/hour to give simple updates and NONE of them charged me to work on other client's projects. I do not recommend using Simon. It ended up being a waste of time and money for me. I think he took on too many projects and thinks he is a high profile lawyer now.

I am looking forward to a long term relationship with Simon. I worked with him a few months ago to craft a simple lease purchase agreement for a piece of property that we held and Simon performed quite well. It was our discussions outside the agreement that I found most exciting, Simon's perspective,... background and approach are well suited for anyone dealing with a start-up company, new venture, intellectual property matter or just looking for competent yet personal legal services. I highly recommend him and look forward to future projects with Simon.

We hired Simon to rewrite or website's terms and to help with our License Agreement. We are creative professionals and there is much misunderstanding how to license and protect creative work. Simon was extremely helpful. He researched and answered all our questions. The texts he wrote for our web...site are tailored to our case specifically. He went beyond what was requested and delivered perfectly on this project. We had wonderful communication and smooth working process. Overall we were really impressed with him and would hire him again for future projects.