James Jeffery Peters

I hired this attorney for a wrongful termination case, after dealing with him for many months and having received from him the worst service ever in my life, I can say confidently that this lawyer is dangerously incompetent beyond description, unfortunately I discovered that too late. James J. Peters... lied repeatedly to me and my spouse, assuring he would take my case to trial if he wouldn't get "a great settlement" for us ; but when he was unable to reach settlement, he attempted to abandon my case, thus badly injuring my case and costing me and my spouse a huge amount of money without accomplishing anything. He billed me thousands of dollars for false services that he never performed. Further, when we insisted he keep his promises to us, he lied even more by saying that he did not promise us any thing. James was also lazy and arrogant; he failed to properly investigate my case, did little legal research, and in fact, relied mostly on research we had to do ourselves. He often ignored our communications, and at one time billed us for his "costs of service" when he tried to improperly withdraw from the case. He showed profound ignorance of the mediation process and was not all aggressive; James often seemed intimidated by the opposing lawyer, and his laziness and dishonesty badly injured our ability to prosecute our claim. We honestly advise against hiring him for any case, we lost a small fortune because of this attorney that we could have used to send our 2 children to a decent school.

I hired Mr. James J. Peters and it was clear soon after we started that he had no real interest in actually doing much work at all on the case. He seemed to only be interested in getting a quick settlement so that he could take his cut. He very rarely returned my phone calls and when I did finally ge...t to talk to him he confused my case with other cases and was not able to know what was going on with it. Mr. Peters told me that the employer would probably want to settle the case real quick. Soon after he filed the law suit the employer made a "low ball" offer to our side. Mr. Peters began to put the pressure on me to settle as soon as possible. He concealed many important case facts and they did not appear in all his communications, he selectively presented information in order to accomplish his goal and to get me go along with him but by doing so he ruined my chances for a good case and settlement. It seemed that his only goal was to get his contingeny fee while doing as little work as possible. It was clear that his business was all about getting clients to settle quickly so he could get his quick percentage. I have consulted with other attornies who have told us (me and my spouse) that the case and the evidence that we have should have resulted in a much higher settlement than we got. I honestly would not recommend him to handle any case.

I wish I had known of this site before I hired James J. Peters to make money off of me and do nothing for it. Words cannot express how dissatisfied I was with his services. First he does not handle the case at all. He makes you believe that he will use his so called experience to get a great deal. Ho...wever in reality he hands the case off to someone else then ignores all your attempts to explain the case facts then just settles and takes whatever is offered from the defendant employer. When I was told by him it looks best to take whatever the employer is offering and to close the case I asked what about all the things you promised me when we talked before I hired you. Basically I was told I could take the case to trial and pay $20,000 more for trial. After I already paid this hack $11000 just in case filing expenses to basically get the same deal I could have without an attorney there was no way I was going to pay him more. I just wish this prevents someone else from wasting their time and money on a guy that basically just runs a small settlement mill and provides nothing for his clients. Funny thing, his slogan is "Protecting Employee Rights"!

I would not recommend Mr. James J. Peters to anyone. This lawyer cost me dearly both financially and emotionally. Before I hired him, James promised me 2 things; 1. a big settlement 2. and to get my job (which I lost after more than 17 years of service) back for me. None of these has happened. I wa...s wrongfully terminated by my former employer in a clear case of discrimination and retaliation that many attorneys offered to take to defend my rights, however I unfortunately ended up with James J. Peters as my attorney after he persuaded me that he would be the best attorney for this case and it would be "a piece of cake" for him. I incurred more than $23000 in case expenses with no positive results at all, he did not accomplish anything for me and he threatened me to abandon my case and to bill me for the "hours he spent on the case" if I do not accept the small settlement amount offered by my former employer. In reality James did no work at all other than submitting a simple demand letter, he did not collect any evidence, he did not try to reach any witness, he does not even have a good understanding of my case at all, when I ask him about the details of my case he could not answer correctly, he often confused my case with other cases from his other clients, 2 times I received from him via mail official documents that did not belong to my case but to other clients' cases, in his communications with me he refers to names and incidents that are not even pertinent to my case, this is a clear indication that he did not research nor study my case well. In his Demand Letter that he sent to the employer he missed lots of crucial issues and important points and when I later asked him why he did not do that he said he "overlooked them", he said absolutely nothing in my defense during the depositions, instead he repeatedly was preoccupied with unrelated issues like talks with the opposing sides' lawyer about stock prices and a former mutual coworker's new position, James failed to show a real support for me as many of my friends observed and told me. After months of representing me, he is tried to justify his failure to accomplish any thing for my case with many excuses and lies, like "overlooking" basic facts of the case, and him being "currently busy" etc. Many of my friends (one of them is an attorney too) noticed that my attorney has done nothing for my case and does not seem to be working for my best interests, his constant efforts to persuade me to accept a miniscule amount from the employer to settle the case and close my claim permanently shows that he has no sincere intent to help me. My advice for those who are seeking legal help: shop around before you hire ANY attorney, you owe it to yourself to research and check the background of the prospective attorney before it is too late, I should have don that myself before hiring this attorney but unfortunately I did not.

My lawyer who is supposed to stand for my rights, never did. I came to this lawyer with each and every document he could possibly need: I gave him about 600 pages worth of solid evidence but he did not utilize any! James J. Peters, during the Settlement Conference, seemed so oddly disconnected, diso...riented and clueless. I was so upset and aggravated, as I saw him joking with the defendants and the employer's lawyers at my presence and during the court hearings instead of discussing my rights that have been aggressively violated. This lawyer plays the game so cowardly to put it mildly. He said after finally devoting some time to look at my case that I would "definitely win" on "at least" the harassment and retaliation and possibly more things like the many proven discrimination and harassment actions against me, then a couple of months later after I hired him he started to describe my case as "weak and let us take what the employer is offering now" This lawyer obviously seems to treat me like I'm an idiot, I feel so disrespected, lied at, helpless, deceived, not to mention feeling so deprived and so alone in this process. This guy and his firm play in a very dirty way. I feel tormented by him, threatened beyond any ability to defend myself from my lawyer!! He uses his power over me to intimidate me. He does not seem to care about the needs or wants of his clients, he is not even willing to communicate interpersonally with them. If I could give James Peters a negative 100 Stars rating I would. I had heard bad things about lawyers before but I had doubts about them then (like some lawyers are deceiving etc.), this lawyer proved to me exactly that. Now after dealing with this attorney for months I'm paralyzed from even calling him again. James could not even tell me his grounds to call my case "weak" after he described it as "very strong" a couple of months earlier!. He seems not to know many details of my ordeal that I included in my reports and documents. He often tries to appear preoccupied by trivial things unrelated to the main issue in an effort to distract the attention from the legitimate complaints. It is baffling to other attorneys and to all my friends that my lawyer is still clueless about many basic and essential facts of my case, all these folks are baffled since I provided all the evidence long time ago. To me it is so obvious that I have been sold out for a quick cash, first I have been lured by this lawyer to file a claim against the employer with the usual sales talk about how he will "stand for your rights and get you a big settlement", once you're hooked, you will hear a different song with a totally different tune of early settlement for a pittance, why should James work hard on the case? to him there is no need at all, he will do a minimal work then he will want you to settle early and take his 40% contingency fee cut, shake your hand and call out "Next!" to the cases in his In Box, this way he can make money with the least possible effort and time, by the time you discover that you have been tricked it will probably be too late to get out of the trap, beware James is so skilled in playing this game, so avoid this guy or at least beware of his tricks.