David George Hilburn

David Hilburn's handling of our case was simply horrendous. He was unprofessional every step of the way once we contracted his services and paid him in full up front. Phone calls were not returned for days, or sometimes weeks. He did not show up for two different court dates, even though we were s...pecifically told to be there. Additionally we were told to be in court two other times that we did not have to be. Each unnecessary court appearance cost us travel time (we live out of the county) and lost wages. As we expressed our increasing displeasure with his handling of the case, his behavior became more and more unprofessional, to the point that he hung up on us during one of our final phone conversations. Despite telling him early on that we wished to plead guilty, take the consequences, and move forward, it took him three years and three rescheduled appearance dates (two of the re-schedulings were for his convenience) to finally get before a judge. Those three years were filled with unnecessary stress and hundreds of dollars of unnecessary expenses (breathalyzer, probation, and monthly fees) that we incurred while waiting months and months longer than necessary for our case disposition. We felt the results were far less satisfactory than could have been with a more professional, focused, caring attorney who could have worked harder with the DA to get our case concluded. His work method seemed to be that he puts every client into the same automatic processing template. And if your case is not cookie-cutter (ours was not) it seemed that his office still treated it as such, sending routine correspondence and appearance instructions that did not apply in our case. He didn't like being questioned, explaining options, or spending time trying to help our confused and scared client family members who have never been involved in any prior legal action understand what was happening. In summary, we believe that by using David Hilburn to represent us, we had a worse outcome and much greater expenses than we would have had with any other attorney. We would not recommend him under any circumstances.