Erik Edward Woodbury

DO NOTHING LAWYER-DO NOT HIRE THIS GUY! I hired this guy who talked a very big tough game. In reality, he wasted 3 months just to serve my defendant and charged me over $2,500. Erik claimed the Sheriff cannot serve someone in a civil matter and must be served by a Process Server. That turned out to ...be complete nonsense and a total waste of my time and money. The Sheriff's office can and does serve in civil matters for $85 and does it routinely and quickly not the 3 months it took Erik and his law firm and Process server team. Erik also refused to inform me that there was a problem serving my deranged brother who I forewarned him about. Ultimately, I had to get personally involved to get the defendant served by scheduling appointments with his process server and make countless trips at different times and days to which none were successful. This process should have taken a day to a week by a Sheriff max, not 3 months of hell. Erik had to be micromanaged each step of the way. He took his sweet time returning communication and went on numerous vacations all over the world while I hired him and his so-called law firm of 2 people. He was made aware that my brother was a narcissistic sociopath and crazy. My brother broke my mother's Living trust and forced her to create a new Will cutting me out entirely with only $5,000 to each of my sons. He was able to do this because he mooched off of my mother for 35 years by living with her in her home and manipulating the hell out of her in a weakened cancer terminal state. When I became aware that my brother manipulated my dying mother and asked her about her wishes, she demanded her lawyer void her changed Will back to sharing everything 50/50 between my brother and I. Once my crazy brother learned that my mother demanded to correct her will, he proceeded to kidnap her until her death. He was able to do this by gaining a Power of Attorney on her and changing her door locks, which I had a key to. He also closed the cell phone I bought and paid for and dominated all incoming home phone calls. He took control of her home phone by moving it out of her reach and deciding which calls he would inform her about. He precluded my sons and I to visit my mother the last 6 months of her life. Erik's only court appearance proved he was unprepared and was reprimanded by the judge. He didn't even know the response time permitted to reply. Erik never subpoenaed my brother's finances who never had a nickel to his name. I knew he swindled the hell out of my mother and got away with murder. Erik stated I have a very good case to win a lawsuit and regain half of my mother's estate since my brother committed financial elder abuse. Meanwhile, my brother's lawyer advised him to file a legal document awarding him my mother's condo valued at $850k at the time of her death. So, filing a claim with the Probate court became a moot point. The final aggravation was trying to get the $10,000 for my sons from my brother's lawyer. That process took another extra 4 months despite that being in the manipulated Will of my mother. Erik sent me on one wild goose chase after another. First, he claimed I needed to talk to my brother's banker at Wells Fargo, which I did.