James Jeffery Peters

Please learn from my true experience as a client of Mr. James J. Peters. I do not care about the other posts regarding this attorney, I only would like to tell my painful experience as a client of James Peters. James Jeffery Peters and his staff acted very nicely and promptly only during the initial... phase of consultation and signing the retainer agreement, promising me very favorable outcome if I retained them for an employment matter, shortly after signing the retainer agreement and once I fell completely into their trap things changed very quickly. Since I have retained him, I have been able to talk to James only once and just for a few minutes. Ironically James Peters Law firm is flying a banner of protecting employee's rights, I was unfortunately fooled by that claim too, James did not care about me or my case, all he cared about was just how quickly can he get cash for himself. James appeared primarily interested in a big payoff and less interested in meeting the needs or desires of the client; he appeared to selectively present information in order to get the clients to go along with him. He even tried to force me to sign a really bad settlement agreement. I and all of my friends who are aware of my case felt like he was working for the other side to try to force me to accept a bad deal even though my case was so strong. In my opinion, James J. Peters represents the very worst of the legal profession, he failed to perform even the most basic of legal services; did irreparable harm to my claim; and refused to provide essential information about my matter to a new attorney, ruining my case. I sincerely hope that this post will save someone else from the nightmare I have experienced.

The worst attorney, avoid like the plague, I have been a client of James Peters for a wrongful termination matter, unfortunately he turned out to be the most incompetent attorney and one of my worst experiences ever. Months after hiring him, I was shocked to learn he actually did minimal work (almost... no work at all) on my case, and his updates on my case turned out to be false, no actual progress, definitely James is not the most honest attorney you could find, all he actually cared about is money, just wanted to settle my case quickly for a pittance. He wasn't helpful or supportive at all at anytime, he just took my money for nothing, he rarely answered my questions, he never returned my phone calls or emails, then suddenly he wanted to settle my straightforward strong case for a pittance (a fraction of the amount which I eventually got when I hired another attorney and fired him). My new attorney resolved the case favorably and got me a substantial settlement in less than 2 months. When I confronted James with these facts, he claimed that he just "overlooked" some basic facts about the case, and "did not have enough time to actually research my case well". My honest advice: avoid this attorney like the plague, there are much better attorneys out there.