Thomas J. Filicia

I was at first excited to talk with Tomass about my case because he seemed knowledgeable and said that he doesn’t take cases he can’t win and was very responsive until couple weeks before my court date. On the day I had court. He had nothing prepared and never did any paperwork on his own, he used th...e paperwork. I filed before hiring him and representing me terribly and I lost the case and not only that he charged an obscene amount of money to just show up with three bullet point handwritten notes and have no idea what was going on in the case , and after that, I have needed to speak with him regarding some of the judges motions that he is supposed to take care of the huge fee, paid him, and he has ultimately disappeared and gone silent and doesn’t answer any phone calls or text or emails and basically just took my $5000 for an hour court date destroyed, and left me with a lot more problems than when I first hired him. He will promise you the world when you consult with him and then once you pay that high fee, he is going to take your money and not care about your case so my advice is to find another lawyer and run because he doesn’t care about his cases. He cares about taking the money and not talking to you again.

From the get go, Thomas J. Filicia did more damage to my case than help. The first of the 4 warrants that ended up being issued for my arrest was because he failed to show up for the initial arraignment. His claim was that he went to the wrong courthouse. He continued to not show up or respond to an...y of my texts, calls, or e-mail requests. After the 4th warrant that was filed for my arrest, I asked for all of the paperwork that he had on my case so I could take care of it myself from this point on. Still have not received a response to that request two weeks later. Fortunately, there is a nice lady at the Assessment Unit that has given me guidance and I'm handling things on my own now. When I told her about the issues that I had been having with Thomas Filicia, she was shocked at how bad he let my situation get and could see from my files all of his failures either to appear or turn over paperwork in a timely manner. She has recommended I file a complaint with the BAR and I am working on that now. Do not use this lawyer!