Keith Carl Rickelman

Took 25,000 dollar "retainer" which was used up within a few weeks and more money was demanded before the trial date. For the trial, his assistant and himself could not figure out, or pretended not to be able to, properly use the overhead projector to display to the jury. Did not prepare a closing st...atement, and stuttered through it. Closing argument had NO substance, and did not get to the core issues. Allowed the other party to take a picture from OUR evidence, it was then tampered with and shown during closing argument to the jury, CLEARLY modified, but did not raise the issue. Felt like he actually HELPED the other party win. Had a team of "experts" who nit picked for hours at minor issues and failed to really nail the major problems with the construction. All the experts were his own personal choice, and each of them demanded SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS which we paid up front. Feels like he just did not want us to win this case, and was negligent with how he approached the arguments. I would be VERY careful hiring this man. He knew the other party and played a game of charades with us. For the amount of money he was paid, he should have delivered us proper legal service, and not held back on the proper legal grounds to attack the case. Bottom line, him and his team of experts made away with tens of thousands and failed to argue the case to the jury.