Joshua Michael Baskin

hired [Attorney’s Name] because he seemed professional at first, but that changed once I paid him off. Communication was terrible—he took days to respond and rarely called back when promised. Despite expressing my concerns, nothing improved. Towards the end, he didn’t show up to court a few times,... sending someone else last minute without proper notice, which made me feel like I wasn’t getting my money’s worth. He also told me that getting house arrest wasn’t possible, but my current attorney made it happen. This guy just wants your money and doesn’t put in the effort once he’s paid. I wouldn’t recommend him to anyone looking for reliable representation.

I hired him because I was afraid of loosing my Commercial DL for dui, he seemed like a good option because of ONE single review from a Cdl holder that I saw about him, (my biggest mistake, I know). From the beginning I should have listened to my guts and look somewhere else but fear took the best of... me at the time. He kept postponing my hearings supposedly waiting for evidence from the police about my case, after he got evidence (about a year and a half later) He basically just told me to agree to the charges without even explaining why or even without trying to get me a better deal with DA, I work for a government agency and they require me to have a class A, through the hole process I lost my CDL for one year, and had to be on a restricted license for half a year, luckily I wasn't fired because I am a good employee, but I was demoted and still can't get any promotions since I have to clear all this situation before. Now when I got convicted, the DMV suspended my license again, YES So after I got that letter in the mail, he hesitantly said, (after trying every way to reaching for him and not getting a call back) he would call the mandatory action unit himself, as of this moment I am STILL waiting for his response, I called the mandatory action unit myself and I am in the process of getting a restricted license on my own with an IID installed in my personal car, calling the mandatory action unit wasn't as hard, (you just gotta leave your number and they will call you back) so honestly I don't think he even tried to call them at all, throughout my case I sent him a bunch of substantial information about me, my certificates at work, and letters of support from valuable people in the community. He requested this and I thought he was going to try and get a better deal for me, but that wasn't the case. At the end I think I just got a pretty standard sentence. The mandatory action unit told me that a lawyer can't do anything about the whole situation either, I would have appreciated if he had told me this on the first place, he HAS NOT got back to me with a response about my driver's license. If you are in the process of looking for a lawyer please ASK them beforehand what can be done about your situation and just ask them to be honest about what they have done for persons in the SAME situation. I probably was better off getting taking the heat from the beginning without hiring him. Looking back at how unreachable he was since the beginning and how he hasn't been able to get back to me with a simple answer, gives an idea of how he treated my case and others with the same situation.

I hired this lawyer to represent my son five days before his court date prior to that date he never found time to meet with my son and on the court date I had to contact him to find out if he was in court with my son ,he was not the next day I contacted him to let him know I would seek another lawyer... and to please refund my deposit he sent me a bill for $785 and I could get the remainder if I not write any reviews about this matter.