David George Tyler

In our matter, he was retained to open a case - and he never got around to it, claiming he needed to research venue. We retained him as he claimed to be highly experienced in litigation, and claimed to have litigated matters surrounding horses before (our issue). However, he couldn't figure out how t...o file a proper pleading and a judge who knew him from Breckenridge even issued orders when we terminated Mr. Tyler noting something like "This is a good of place as any to note that Mr. Tyler made it a continued practice of constant missed and late filings, and with little respect or understanding of the rules". Ultimately, he ended up costing us almost everything in a case that, with a responsible attorney, would have been resolved almost 2 years ago. He didn't even know to request a show-cause hearing, and he constantly claimed that he was going to have a motion for summary judgement prepared "tomorrow" or "next week" - for over five months on end. Ultimately, he never filed it, right up to the deadline. The draft he showed us was only two pages, horribly mispelled, not even 1% complete, and didn't even have any of the facts of the case right - he was misidentifying witnesses, etc. Also, he never billed us - ever. EVER. He would out of the blue call and claim he needed another check to "keep the lights on" without ever billing out in the entire 8 month period we retained him. Hint: It's another rule violation. Colorado should have disbarred him a long time ago, he is a train wreck on the legal system and a lot of innocent people are getting hurt. Even while paying him we had to carry our own case. He never would call any witnesses, so we had to call them and put together affidavits. He never would draft any motions, he never would do anything requested at all - not once. If you make the mistake of retaining Mr. Tyler, chances are he will wreck hell in your life worse than the subject to which you are trying to retain him for. Even his former associates and attorneys, judges that know him well know he's irresponsible with no respect or understanding of the court rules and have no problem saying so "on the record". Mr. Tyler even at one point tried to impress us by claiming he was researching a "new theory of law" Declaratory Judgement. I knew what it was and it had no application in our case but he was throwing out buzzwords thinking it would impress us. When in reality, he can't even research a simple thing such as venue which - in all of about, 5 minutes - anyone in the State of Colorado can pull up Mitchie - CRCP and find the exact rules of venue; there is no fuzzy lines all the authorities are even there. What we researched in five minutes he couldn't take the time to do in five months. Ultimately, towards the end, he claimed he got hit in the head with a golf ball and suffered a concussion and it was a life changing event and he wasn't thinking very clearly so it was hard to get anything filed in our case. (I am not joking, at all). He had a million excuses throughout the 8 months as to why he couldn't get anything done. He's sick, his dad is, he needs to spend time with his wife, his family is coming into town, hes been working all day, etc. etc. etc. I don't think there is a day where he spends more than 2 hours at his office at any time, so... yeah. Then of course, he's tragically wounded by a golf ball. Makes me wonder what hes coming up with for his current clients now. Hilariously, when he was finally terminated, though he never billed us, he sent us an "estimation" claiming he did 29,000 in fees, but he wasn't going to "collect it" unless we filed a grievance against him - extortion is very cute. Hopefully, the attorney regulatory committee will stop him from hurting more innocent people in the future.