Christopher Mackensen Thornhill

I paid Mr. Thornhill a flat fee of $5,000 to represent me in a business dispute between myself and a homeowner. My case was a slam dunk case for any seasoned attorney. Before going to trial I asked Mr Thornhill on several occasions to subpoena the 88 year old homeowner's daughters who hired me ...to do the work and had been dodging court at all cost. Mr Thornhill did exactly what he wanted and did not subpoena the main individual who needed to be in court. Each time I called his office to get updates on the case I can tell based on the answers I was getting that the case was poorly prepared. The morning of the Court Mr Thornhill emailed me at 10:00 a.m. asking me to familiarize myself with the questions that he was going to ask me and if I could get in touch with my main witness to be in court for 1:00 p.m. All I could do was shake my head and wonder what kind of foolishness was this. After getting to court it appeared that the attorney the defendant hired at the last minute was much more prepared than Mr Thornhill. Mr Thornhill ask me some questions on the witness stand as a matter of formality but failed to grill the defendant. He asked this 88-year-old lady all but two to three questions and when I asked him after court why didn't he Grill her his response was there was no sense in putting her through that. All I can think about was you took my $5,000 to go to court and tell me that it was no sense in putting her through that like the judge was going to hand you the case without proving it. I was so sure that we were going to win the case that I was prepared to let him keep the $9,615 plus attorney fees to represent me in two additional cases that I have pending. After seeing that lackluster effort on his part only the collect an easy $5,000 I would never recommend or use him again. When I asked him after we lost the case why didn't he subpoena her daughter like a requested, his response was all she was going to do was lie. Although her mom lied and we still lost it would have been much easier for the judge to see through her lies which would have given us a much better chance to prevail had he only done his job. All I can say is please vet these attorneys before throwing your money away. All he had to do was prove quantummeruit and unjust enrichment based on no written contract and he could not even do that. What a total disappointment and waste of money.

Our problem with this guy/firm is that he did NOT keep his word to my wife and I about what he told us that he would do for us if we hired him! In separate conversations that he had with my wife and myself, his “SALES PITCH” was that he/we would go after insurance company/agent first and if agent ...wouldn’t settle(he was very sure tho that agent would settle easily), that next step(plan B), would be to go after insurance company/agent! Again, he thought insurance company would EASILY settle with us(WE HV A NO BRAINER CASE, WE HV OVER 100 PICS OF CONSTRUCTION FLAWS THAT WERE DONE TO OUR HOME THAT WERE CAUSED BY SORRY INEXPERIENCED CONTRACTORS THAT WE HAD HIRED), CT even came to our home and saw first hand our “PROBLEMS” and again he assured us that this should be a slam dunk case! BUT, for some WEIRD/UNKNOWN reason(at least to us) insurance company denied claim and NOW CT is basically telling us that going after insurance company/agent isn’t going to happen(?), isn’t an option now and he’s now wanting us to go after SORRY/BROKE contractors who have NO $$$(who so far have offered to pay us $1k less than what we pd CT), so hiring him was totally a huge WASTE OF TIME! I/we wouldn’t have ever hired the guy, pd him $2,500 if the last resort would have been to go after BROKE contractors who at best would only walk away with a judgment against them. I specifically went over in our conversation what plan B would be and it was going after insurance company! And one can easily type in online “can an insurance company be sued if they turn down a claim” and the answer is YES!!! I’m not sure what happened here but just like with TYPICAL SORRY ATTORNEYS, they want u to pay them a good $ amount upfront and then there’s really no incentive to do what they were hired to do! That $2,500 was just a little weekend spending $ for him, I’m sure that he has a GR8 weekend spending it and now it’s basically “SCREW U” to us! NOT COOL/NOT RIGHT!!!