Richard Harold Martin

Hired this lawyer to cover court appearances for a speeding ticket and he skated the court date. If I could ZERO stars I would. I didn't find out until over 5 years later when I had to renew my driver's license and have a hold on it for failure to appear in court. Lesson learned. Handle tickets direc...tly and don't count of lawyers to do anything. .

If I could give this joke of a lawyer a ZERO, I would! I had an outstanding warrant in Arlington. My husband found him on Craigs List and since he had low rates, I went with him. Well, everything started out great, he was able to lift my warrant within a week or two. I needed to provide him with proo...f of insurance, but unfortunately did not work out for me because the insurance wasn't under my name and I wasn't a covered driver. Anyway, he kept having to push the case back to May of this year and I had to pay ANOTHER FEE. So after the case I contacted him, no answer. Okay I waited a few weeks, still no answer, a month passes by, I contact him AGAIN, no answer, another month passes and STILL NO ANSWER!!! It is now the end of September, I have contacted him again, checked my status and I am BACK on ARREST WARRANT!!!!!! Ridiculous! He finally answered me saying he BELIEVES he sent me paperwork, when I haven't received ANYTHING. And for him not to answer me for 4 MONTHS! That is completely unacceptable. I'm really disappointed and extremely angry that this had not been taken care of and I have not gotten any communication from him in a timely manner and because I had to pay double of what I originally thought I would've had to pay!!!! Now I have to pay ANOTHER lawyer to get this done correctly. Like the saying goes, If it's too good to be true, it probably is!

I had him handle 3 citations. 1 was handled, 1 the officer showed up at my door to arrest me and the third ended up in a warrant. he doesn't get back to you and never addresses the citations. after the lewisville officer showed up at my door, Richard said he would handle it and my next ticket would b...e on the house. i luckily received my third a few weeks later. nothing was on the house and he just got me deffered. he is terrible. i wasnt going to write this but ran into a friend last night that had the same type of story about Richard! THE WORST!! DO NOT HIRE!! believe me

I received two traffic citations and retained Richard H. Martin to represent me. A court date was set in Kaufman County JP#2. He never notified me of my court date and he was a "no show" at the hearing. I sent him an e-mail asking what the disposition was and he never responded. Subsequently, Ka...ufman County issued three warrants for my arrest (one each for the citations and an additional warrant for Failure to Appear) and I was arrested on a traffic stop in Highland Park. After my arrest, I called him and he finally responded and said that he had recently found my e-mails asking about my case while he was going through old e-mails. After I told him I had been arrested due to his negligence, he said he had not done anything wrong and it was the court's fault and refused to give my retainer fee back.

Richard Harold Martin is an unprofessional lawyer. He never send in my papers for the case. I have asked the people at the Court House about it, but they said they did not receive the papers. I then asked him again about this, after I asked for my money back. He said he gave in the papers to the Cour...t House. But I was at the Court House the same day he said that. He replied to my first message very quickly, though after I sent him the money and contract, he never contacted me back again, until I ask my money back. When I went to his office, the receptionist at his floor said he was away at the court. But she did not know when he'll be back or any other information. With other people who found this lawyer and got scammed. I seriously regret other people to go to him for a traffic ticket or any other reason. Truly I don't understand how he gets good reviews from some people. My scenario was identical with people who gave him poor rate, go to www.yelp.com or www.yellowpages.com to read other reviews. Person can't be changed from one case to another with simple thing as responsibility - it's very unprofessional.