William Kamehameha Vogeler

William Vogeler represented me years ago. He was representing myself versus the largest company in my town. The other side had 4 attorneys, one of them their main attorney. The other side paid a lot of money in attorney fees I assume. William Vogeler represented me. My side had all of the witnesses. ...At the end of the day our side won, and the judge yelled at the other side. Mr. Vogeler's price was more than reasonable. He also is a very ethical person.

I hired Mr. Vogeler as my attorney. I paid him a retainer as he demanded. He became my attorney and remained my attorney for over 6 months. It should be mentioned that I hired Mr. Vogeler as my attorney after he made numerous follow ups to "close the deal" utilizing salesmanship and false promises... of victory in court. A week or two after taking my retainer, Mr. Vogeler responses to my telephone calls and emails started to become slower and slower. When Mr. Vogeler did respond, it was through a short email forwarded at odd times and either late at night or very early mornings. Mr. Vogeler later disclosed to me that he lives out of state and in Texas! This was a material omission that should have been disclosed to me first as I would not have retained him as my attorney had I known he does not reside in Orange County, California where he holds an office. During the 6 months period when Mr. Vogeler served as my attorney, I never got a billing or any type of accountability of the retainer I gave him. He ignored all my requests to produce such accounting. At the end after repeated requests he finally produced an inflated bill to show the retainer was consumed. In his billing Mr. Vogeler charged me for my telephone calls, voice mail messages, emails, and texts which I forwarded to him but he NEVER RETURNED OR RESPONDED TO! I felt violated and mistreated and when I politely objected to this he became angry. He threatened me with a lawsuit against filing a complaint with the State Bar and or post a critical comment on AVVO! I was intimidated by him and I did not have the energy and or the focus to escalate the matter to file complaint against this man. I had to come up with a new retainer to hire a new attorney to finalize my case. I do not recommend Mr. Vogeler as an attorney to anyone.

Bill wasted over a year and a half of our time, kept telling us postponements are a good thing. Very poor responses, updates and lack of knowledge to handle our case. Our case was never resolved with him, had to fire him and get a competent lawyer. Total waste of time and money. Very disappointed!...