Arthur Harry Lampel

Mr. Lampel took a $3000 retainer and then became completely unresponsive to contact. His phone did not work. He was unaware of a court date coming up. He did not read court documents or correspondence. (As evidenced by what he wrote to me in emails ) When I was able to contact him by phone, his voice... would fade in and out. "It's an old phone..." He said but he did not purchase a new one. Often, there was no one to answer his phone. There was no voice mail. The phone would just ring and ring. He was extremely friendly with the other party. This made me feel uncomfortable. You would think she had been paying him instead of me. He would not do as I asked. I asked to see the signature on a document as I am legally entitled to, he did not tell me it required a court order (or he did not know. "You can do that yourself at the courthouse", he said) and I wasted several hundred dollars coming to Los Angeles, getting a hotel for the night and being refused at the court house the next day. With an impending court date coming up and Mr. Lampel having no knowledge of my case, I was forced to get another attorney. Lampel did not file one piece of paper on my behalf for my $3000. When I changed attorneys, he had still not even informed the court that he was my attorney of record. I would receive documents on my case in the mail and be forced to fax them (at my further expense) to Lampels office. Although the opposing council sent copies to him as a courtesy, he apparently did not open or read them. Lampel wanted me to accept a dubious document as fact, would not facilitate the review of it and hung up on me when I asked him to do this. He wanted to take the course of least resistance (and work) on his part by accepting a questionable will without question when he had been hired for the precise reason of questioning that document. I do not feel I could recommend him to anyone. He has not returned my fee. He has been the most disappointing hired person I have ever come in contact with.