Mark Christopher Lane

by taken advantage of 05/10/2011 Where to start? I spoke with Mr. Lane and his wife the first week of April about representing my custody case, they seemed on point until I made my first payment! Literally in two months not ONE person has contacted me regarding my case. Any questions I had I ...emailed to Mr. Lane, which were few. A response time of 3 plus days was usually how long it took him to get back to me, completely unprofessional. My court date was exactly one week away when I emailed to ask Mr. Lane what I needed to bring to court, turns out when his wife called me back they didn't even know what precinct my case was being held at. Mr. Lane's wife then preceded to tell me he had another trial that day and would have to reschedule my case for a new date. I found this odd since I had given them both all the legal documents I had with the court date and precinct my hearing was at, so they overlooked this fact? I asked her to give me a time frame before rescheduling because I did not want to wait months for a new court date, no surprise I never heard back from her or anyone from the office. I then simply called the precinct and asked them to give me a tentative reschedule date to see if that's the route I wanted to take. Turns out it would take at least a month to get back in court and even that was unusually quick. I decided to call Mr. Lane's wife and tell her what they told me, she then placed me on hold and put Mr. Lane on the phone. He then basically told me that he was withdrawing himself from my case because I decided to go behind his back and call the precinct about the new rescheduling date, he also flat out told me that I was rude and he does not deal with clients of my type and that I had an attitude. I was very confused at this point because I had not requested to terminate him as my lawyer, I was just trying to find out when my new date would be. I was very polite when speaking to him and his wife, unfortunately I could not get one word in because Mr. Lane was short tempered and continually cut me off during the phone call. Before he hung up on me mid sentence, and yes that's exactly what he did lacking all professionalism, he told me he was going to calculate every minute and penny I owed him and charge me to the fullest...??? This confused me even more since they didn't even know where my case was being held and what the date was, so how could they have worked on my case at all? So in turn I say this, if you want to hire someone that just wants to take your money then go ahead, he's the guy for you. Personally I'd like someone with a little professionalism and class. Unfortunately I had to give him one star, I would give zero if I could.