Roy D Cole

This man was paid to do a simple visitaion case. The paperwork was not done correctly and had to make corrections. He neglected to follow through. Never did anything to get a court date or do the paperwork needed for the case. After 9 months of nothing done we had to fire him. He refused to give o...ur money back and said we only paid him 1/2 of what we did. I saved the reciept and am suing him for failure to do the work he was contracted and paid to do. He also changed staff 3 times in 9 months . Apparently he cant even keep anyone to work for him. He was very dishonest with us and now wants to keep our money. I sbould have checked him out 1st. I have since then looked into him and he has been repremanded by the board many times and has lots of negative comments on him and the way he does buisness.

It has been over two years since I hired Roy Cole to represent me in my divorce and I am still trying to undo the mess he did! If anybody is even thinking about hiring Mr. Cole as a lawyer please notice he has been reprimanded from the Utah State Bar four times! Due to the limited space I have, I wi...ll only address the major problems I encountered. 1. He failed to file my affidavit for a temporary orders going through a divorce. I found out about it at the hearing when the opposing counsel told the commissioner that he failed to file the paperwork. However, I still received bills for time spent working on my affidavit 2. While in mediation, he actually left me to go pick up his children. I was unrepresented for a time. When the time came to sign the stipulation for the divorce decree, he did not read it and a critical error was made and missed. That was why I hired him, to review legal documents. His failure to review the final draft of the divorce decree resulted in my ex having more custody. He also refused to listen to me when i said my ex needed a time frame to refinance our joint loans. So now, a year and a half later I am still tied to my ex's debt. My new lawyer is still trying to get me financially separated from my ex. 3. He missed critical deadlines. He waited until after the 7 day time frame to file an objection to the typo in my divorce decree. 4. He has a high turn over rate with office staff. In the time period he was my attorney, he had four different paralegals. Many times, I would call and the paralegal didn't know what was going on. 5. I have requested numerous times for an itemized statement of my charges and I still haven't received it. I was treated rudely the last time I requested one by Roy Cole. I paid a lot of money to have Roy Cole not do what he was hired for and even more to have a different lawyer try to fix his mistakes.