Bristol C. Myers

I contacted Bristol in November, 2010 regarding my case. The "free" consultation that ended in him saying he needs $3500 to do it at $500 per month automatically deducted from our account. Since I'd lost my job over the incident, it was a great sacrifice as we knew there were other lawyers who cou...ld charge half that much. I told him I'd have to leave Austin because I couldn't find work after two months and my family needed help. He said "go," and "that's not a problem." I had been taking anger management courses as per court order and when I left Austin, I stopped, of course. Nine days before my next court date, I called and left a message that I was now out of state, and since a new court appearance was coming, was there anything I needed to do? I never heard from him. Then I received an email with the subject "WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST." he wrote that since I wasn't taking the required anger management classes the judge had issued a warrant. I've since discovered that there are online courses accepted by Texas courts that I could have been taking the whole time to keep this from happening. Also, the pretrial services court date had changed from Jan. 19 to some earlier date, I don't know when, because this email came two days before my papers state the next pretrial was to occur. Where was Bristol Myer when I called nine days earlier to tell me dates had changed, or that I needed to stay in anger management when I left. Where was he to simply return my call? Nowhere. But he sure took the money from our account. Meanwhile we've paid him $1,000 to get the same results from the courts I could have gotten had I just skipped town. The problem is that had I wished to do that, I would have. I retained him as counsel so I could not be homeless while I put my life back together with those who love me. Thanks for nothing, Bristol. You made it worse by taking what little money we had and turning it into a nightmare we would have had even if we never had a lawyer at all.