John Howard Gilliam

John was knowledgeable, informative, and easy to work with while setting up my wife and I's living will and attorney of power forms. He was affirming and comfortable to work with as a same-sex couple setting up these documents to protect our family even prior to the SCOTUS ruling. He took the time ...needed to answer our questions and was prompt in putting the documents together once we had provided the necessary information. He was open to make the edits required and thorough in going through the final documents. We would work with him again if we had future legal needs.

Our case involve a home builder we hired to build our "dream house." He turned out to be a thief and completely incompetent. After more than a year of fighting with the "builder" to fix the problems, we decided to try the legal route. We had never had any experience with lawyers and were not ...even sure how to start the process. A friend recommended John and we got an appointment the same week. He was WONDERFUL. John walked us through the process, told us what to expect (including the frustrations to come) he was very meticulous, organized, and kept us informed every step of the way. In the end he proved fraud, deceptive trade practices, and incompetence on the part of the builder. Our home was declared a complete loss and because of the fraud and deceptive trade practices,, we were awarded the full price of the house plus triple damages. The total amount of the judgement was 500,000 dollars. I hope we will never need another attorney but if we do, John is the first guy we will call. I recommend John to anyone in need of an attorney.

I've known John Gilliam for many years. He has advised me on Montana employment law, torts--- specifically on issues of libel and slander. He has also advised me on contract re-negotiation; John helped me draft a couple of letters that re-positioned me in a dispute. His skill helped me box in a cont...entious party and I was able to prevail. He is able to quickly separate the emotional aspects of litigation and quickly come up with a clean, objective game plan. I would highly recomend him.