Terance D. Orme

I hired Terance because he offered his services to my father who lIves across the street from him. Terance is a clean cut, educated (Harvard Graduate) individual who claims he wants to help "low income people" in the community by providing services at a flat rate of $1500 paid at once, two payments o...r on a payment plan. From the moment we consulted with him, he was arrogant and has a way to make his clients feel small. We hired him to represent my husband in a concealed weapons case. Unfortunately, I'm the only one working at the time and am still recovering from a nasty divorce which left me bankrupt. He made me feel embarrassed to even ask him about his payment options because I had spoken to other lawyers prior to him who said they billed on a monthly basis. He made comments such as "oh I understand if you can't afford my fees, you do need to buy groceries", when I requested a case update (I hadn't heard from him for abut a week) and asked if he hadn't yet begun working our case if we could cancel the contract (we gave him a $500 deposit) and he responded with a claim that he had begun work, never filled us in and presented a bill for much larger than the agreed upon flat rate amount based on "hours worked". I regret hiring him, I only did because my parents insisted I did since they live across the street from him. Every communication, verbal, written or email he comes off with such arrogance and makes every attempt to demean us. It almost feels like he's using reverse psychology to get our one income household to "pay up" in order not to fall into the category he has placed us in. The sentence my husband received was the same sentence, my dislexic uncle, who literally lives out of his van got for the same charges, more weapons and represented himself. I would not recommend him to anyone, unless you're into being made feel inadequate so you're obligated to pay high fees for mediocre work. What a shame and waste of money!