James Jeffery Peters

I hired this attorney without searching his background and the feedbacks he received from other clients and it was a big mistake. He cost me more than $20,000 in case expenses and fees without accomplishing any thing for me. I went to James Peters just for a consultation and he persuaded me (actually... I should say tricked me) to hire him and to file a claim against my employer because my case in his own words "is very strong" but within a week after signing the retainer agreement his communications became very rare and totally different in tune. The only thing that James actually did for my case was writing a simple 3 pages demand letter and that was a clumsy work, it missed many essential facts about my case and that letter by itself weakened my case. James then started to put pressure on me to settle my case for a small amount offered by the employer to close the case. When I tried to argue with James that my case and evidence are strong he stopped completely to communicate with me, basically I got a zero response from him to my dozens of emails, however I was able to have conversions with James only twice afterwards over the phone, almost always when I call him James tried to avoid talking to me and referred me to his staff or sometimes his partner and they were rude and unprofessional and kept giving me false information about "progress" of my case for months. I have experience in life and I think I can not be easily tricked, but this person has a remarkable ability to deceive, I remained with him for several months because he always produced good excuses for his failure to make any progress, after several months I found out that he did nothing for my case, when I asked him why he did not call any witness from my list of witnesses or utilize any evidence I gave him? he would say that "is unnecessary" or he "overlooked" that, this lasted for months, I finally realized that he did not work for my case but actually against me to put pressure on me to accept my opponent's offer to settle the case. Mr. James Peters strangely wanted me to accept a mediator's report prepared with the help of my opponent as is and to agree to everything including false information in it without question!! I dealt with a few attorneys before and none of them was as bad as Mr. James J. Peters. I eventually had to fire him because it was clear to me that I am losing the case because of Mr. Peters's lack of effort to work for it. The expenses I incurred by that time were more than the initial amount offered by the employer to settle the case. It became clear to me that he was only after a quick money with minimal work. After I terminated him, James even refused to be terminated, then sent me an outrageous bill for "services" he never provided, he only wrote a clumsy demand 3 pages letter to the employer that probably toke only 30 minutes of his time and that was it, he is shamelessly still asking me to pay him for his "services". I have been with another attorney for just a few weeks now, he was able to negotiate a six figure settlement with the employer; so clearly my case is strong it only needed some one with a genuine interest to work for it. I have no choice here but to give Mr. Peters a one star rating just to have my feedback posted, I wish there was a box for HELL NO in recommendations I would have definitely used it. I sincerely hope no other one will be victimized by Mr. Peters; it has been a nightmare to me.

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