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 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.

Honestly my experience with him was nothing but terrible, I lost a really strong case solely because of this attorney, please continue reading I will only state solid facts from my direct experience with him that James himself can’t deny: He did not work hard on my case, he knew just a superfici...al idea about the case, and communication in his firm is horrid. He cannot keep his story straight, and lies to make himself look better which includes making a verbal agreement on the basis of settlement then backing out of it. You would be frustrated the whole time and the firm does not "work hard for employee rights". Before I officially hired him, James told me my case “is as solid as platinum” and gave me assurance that I would be getting a big settlement, then a few months later he chewed me out, telling me suddenly that I had “no case”. His staff as well as him will not return phone calls and it takes telling the receptionist that you have a NEW client with a new case who would like to talk to the attorney for him to suddenly go from "not in the office" to on the phone with you. He was the worst choice I ever made. To get anything done you have to call him and get on him about his lack of attempts. He will make you as his client look bad both on the witness stand, and in general misrepresent your intentions in open court. He allowed the defense to put me in tears, then was siding with the defense, and that was just disgusting to put it mild. He accomplished nothing, with all the evidence I produced he absolutely accomplished nothing. The expenses I paid for the case are actually more than the money the employer paid. James just pursued the easiest way to secure any extra income for himself, to him it was an easy extra income so why pursue the case hard anyway? to me it was a life-changing event (loss of job and income) I did not see any sign that he actually cared about my case, he apparently did not care, he seemed not to have any motivation or courage to stand up for my rights. He did not put any effort to win even given all documents to make that possible. Steer clear of this firm all together, that is my honest advice