Chad Davis Elsey

Consultation went great and I thought he was going to have my back. Hired, then had one five minute conversation before he filed an answer that was lacking in the things we discussed at the initial consult as well as asking for things (like a jury trial) that was never discussed or approved. He filed... my answer without conferring with me or getting my approval. Tried to get in touch multiple times. Just didn’t seem to care. Ate up my entire retainer after filing less than 1 page of an answer before we even got to the hearing I hired him for. +1 star for filing a semi coherent answer and for showing me what a good practice SHOULDN'T do. Shame on me for not seeing through the facade.

At the initial consult, he was very warm, welcoming, and said he was very interested in my case. He told us that when we were ready to move forward, we could call and he would be there the next day to take the retainer check and file paperwork. We were quoted a $10,000 retainer, so this took a while ...to gather, but we felt confident moving forward with him in our custody modification case. As the situation escalated, we made sure we had the money, and I reached back out to see how we could with him. A meeting was schedule for a month later, his earliest available, which is understandable. However, we arrived to the meeting and he was not there. Neither was his paralegal. We were not given so much as a courtesy phone call or email letting us know he wasn't going to be there. Another lawyer in the firm sat down with us, never introduced herself, and attempted to take our retainer check and get more information about the case from us. We were hesitant to hand over the money to anyone but Chad directly and asked to reschedule so we could meet with the actual lawyer we were hiring. We were assured that Chad's paralegal would reach out the next day to reschedule with us. This never happened. I sent an email 48 hours later following up to reschedule with his paralegal, and I never heard anything back. With my children's well being in danger, I was extremely disappointed with the lack of professionalism and inability to even return an email or phone call. I had to find another lawyer after being pushed off for an entire month already. I would be cautious in hiring him if you are in an urgent or emergent situation.