I randomly selected Michelle Behan from a list of possible defense attorney’s and, in retrospect, I wish I hadn’t. She is not a completely honest attorney and, in retrospect, I feel like I was scammed by her. In our very first conversation (after she read my one page summary of the incident involv...ing charges of assault for “touching with intent”) she made clear statements to me that the plaintiff did not have a strong case because the DA “could not prove the necessary intent”. She added that it was unlikely that the Plaintiff’s witness would even show up for the court case. I was pleased to hear this and when she offered to handle the case for a lump sum, I agreed and her assistant quickly billed me for it. In that initial conversation she also stated that it was important to move quickly to obtain the video evidence of the incident which I agreed with. In that regard she said that she engages a Private Investigator (a Mr. Dagostino) for just such purposes and that he would cost me an extra $75 an hour. I agreed to this given her recommendation and knowing that we needed to move quickly. However, a few weeks later (and after having been billed $150 for his time) I finally learned that Mr. Dagostino had failed to obtain any evidence and that he hadn’t accomplished anything more than a simple phone call request from anyone could have accomplished. Despite my ongoing efforts to push this matter along with emails and phone call messages to Behan, it in fact took about three months for hern to finally obtain the video evidence which coincidentally happened just after I sent her a strong email asking why we simply hadnt subpoenad this evidence to begin with. In the meantime, we had a second conversation where she recommended that I plead guilty and accept a “Diversion” offer which completely contradicted her initial statements to me about the strength of our case. At that point it was obvious to me that she didn’t care what the video evidence showed and that she had completely changed her posture on my case now that I had already paid her and engaged her. Despite later reviewing the video evidence with me, I realized that she never was prepared to defend my case along the lines of her initial assurances. This lack of honesty on her part only made my whole experience with this matter doubly frustrating. I clearly recommend that you do not use this attorney in a defense situation.