James Edward Newnham

The consult was great! You are told everything you want to hear. After you become a client, and one who pays on-time, you will be treated like you take up too much of their time. Mr. Newnham and his team will get you to continuances in court and not resolve matters. There are too many people handling... your case that no one there seems to know what is going on. You will be given different information when you ask the same question. Beware, there is a reason he has been disciplined by the board in the past. You will be told they are busy working on other cases. When you finally decide to hire an attorney that is willing to work and get things done they will keep your file for weeks before they release it. The person who works on files is hardly there and when she is, she seems overwhelmed. She knows more about your case than the attorney. She will try to convince you that you need separate court dates for every single matter, but that is only to fill the calendar with court appearances, and guess what happens at the court appearance? A continuance for another court date, so to resolve a matter it could take several court dates. By the way, other attorneys will not make you show up if they know ahead of time of a continuance and save you a day off work, or they can also arrange for them not to go in and just file paperwork. My divorce case was not moved forward in over 6 months and when I hired this office I was way past the 6 month waiting period, when I asked why nothing regarding my divorce was moved forward I was explained that there was a 6 month waiting period, clearly, this was another example of how they do not know about your file and just speak nonsense with confidence because my divorce was filed a year and a half ago, which means it is way past the waiting period. Also, I was told I would have child support ordered and after waiting 5 months I gave up and hired someone new. Sorry this review is disorganized, but I think you get the point. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere where they do not treat you like you are a burden, yet they always bill ahead and call you for that, but when you try to talk to someone no one answers or returns messages left on the answering machine. The entire office is outdated, literally, they share one e-mail and they prefer you to fax instead of scanning and e-mailing, I am not even going to get into the office itself. Good luck!

I contacted Mr. Newnham's office because I had been told I needed to go through Probate. His secretary gave me a telephone appointment for the same day because I live an hour away. Mr. Newnham explained what I needed which was not a costly Probate procedure. He patiently told me which forms I needed... and how to complete them myself in order to successfully transfer some real estate for which my mother had Quit Claim Deeded to me prior to her death but had been lost after she died. He was knowledgeable, professional, patient and soft spoken, not to mention that the consultation was free of charge.