Carolyn Cook Robertson

Carolyn Robertson

This is a man who hired me for a highly contested custody fight. During the course of the case, it came to light that he had repeatedly threatened and insulted the mother of his children with racial slurs - in writing. In the discovery responses, I attempted to do damage control on that issue, having him state that he regretted having made the statements, that he had learned that such statements were inappropriate, and that he would not repeat them. These discovery responses could not be served until he signed them under oath, which he refused to do. He accused me of lying about his having called his ex a N***** and claimed I got him in trouble for putting a reference to that in the papers where I was attempting to do damage control (which the other side never saw, since he did not sign the oath and I was unable to serve them anyway). His other discovery, which did not need to be signed by him, was properly served. This man then made threats of violence to me and my own child, along with many religiously outrageous statements in which he claimed God told him I was going to hell, etc. Given that it was impossible to work with this person, I did inform him I was withdrawing from his case. He then demanded a complete refund, despite the fact that I had more than earned the retainer her had paid and he owed several thousand more for the work I had done. I prepared his file and his final bill and told him I would mail it to him. He stated that he was going to come pick it up in person, which caused me to fear that he would actually commit violence. My paralegal nearly quit over her fears about this man coming to our office, as she had also seen his behavior.