Stephanie E Lake

Almost 3 years and I have talked to this attorney twice, I filed for ssdi myself per her request , I did all the leg work, I made all the copies and sent copies to her office AND social security finally contacted me because some of the paperwork that they requested from her never was sent AFTER I TOO...K IT TO HER OFFICE MYSELF they never sent it to social security. Then in my reconsideration I got a letter from SSI that they had sent letters and called and left messages for one Justin So&So supposedly someone at her law firm who was handling my case and had not heard back from him could I please call them, before I called them I called her law firm and asked the lady who answered the firm who this guy was and she told me that he no longer works there and hadn't been there for almost a year. WHAT?! I called ssi and talked to my case worker and she said that they had been sending letters and calling and leaving messages with NO response for over 6 months thats why they contacted me directly and that Stephanie lakes office should have notified them as soon as that attorney was no longer handleling my case and SHE DIDN'T. So for the last 3 months I have been dealing with ssi myself . A lady from ssi contacted me January 20 and asked me some questions and Approved or awarded me ssi right then and there unfortunately they did not determine that I had become disabled until DECEMBER of 2020 so I wasn't going to receive any back pay... Which I had become disabled back in May of 2018 and that's when I filed. when I called Stephanie lakes office and told them what had happened STEPHANIE LAKE HERSELF CALLED ME BACK HOURS LATER AND WAS PISSED AND RUDE and when I Became angry AND RUDE BACK her attitude changed very quick like.. Today I got a letter in the mail congratulating me on winning PART of my case and that I would be receiving a bill from her office for litigation costsas per our contract ... NOTHING in the copy of my contract says anything about LITIGATION only that there may be extra fee applied if they had to make copies and things like that but would not total more then about $300 ... Ya good luck with that I have consulted with another attorney and gathered all my evidence and he said I have a very strong case against her if I decide to hire him he would gladly take my case. Thinking strongly about it... also I asked her office several time if someone could explain the whole Disability process time and time again or asked if they had a booklet that I could read because I had NO CLUE how that whole process works AND NOTHING.