Joshua Randall Trigsted

I retained Joshua Trigsted in June 2026 for a Fair Credit Reporting Act case. My Chapter 7 was discharged in September 2024, and TransUnion was reporting it as dismissed while Equifax and Experian reported it correctly. I brought him a documented file: the Order of Discharge, all three credit reports..., dispute responses, adverse action notices showing a denied auto lease and a halved credit limit, dated screenshots capturing the month the bureau changed my status from discharged to dismissed, and written statements from the furnisher acknowledging the accounts were in bankruptcy while refusing to correct them. Before I signed, he wrote that he believed I had a claim. Three months later I had no case, no lawsuit, and no lawyer. Communication. I initiated every single contact over three months. Not once did he reach out to update me. Replies routinely took close to a week and were often one or two sentences, frequently leaving me less clear than before I asked. The work. He sent three pre-suit demand letters on June 5, 2026. I have all of them. They are substantially the same document with names swapped. The letter to the furnisher describes my dispute as made through a different credit bureau, because the text was copied from that bureau's letter and never adapted. All three cite 15 U.S.C. 1681s(b), the administrative enforcement provision, not a section a consumer sues under. All three demand an identical figure from three defendants with very different exposure. Most importantly, not one mentions the strongest evidence I had already given him: the bureau's internally contradictory record, the documented date the status changed, the fourteen affected accounts, or the furnisher's written admissions. The defendants were never shown the actual case. All three went by ordinary first class mail with no tracking, so there is no proof any arrived. The furnisher then responded twice in July. Neither was forwarded to me. I found out they existed only after the representation ended and I requested my file. One contains a clear misstep by the defendant that supports my claim. It sat in his office for two months. The costs. In September he said the next step was litigation and asked me to advance $1,000 to $2,000 per case, saying he believed it would be unethical to front those costs himself. The fee agreement I signed says the opposite: litigation costs are deducted from settlement funds and are not paid during litigation, and if there is no recovery the firm waives them entirely. The rules of professional conduct permit a lawyer to advance litigation expenses contingent on outcome. It is a choice, not an ethics constraint. The withdrawal. I asked two things: whether the cost request changed our agreement, and whether we could set a workable response time given that accounts were actively being closed because of the reporting. He withdrew the same day. After three months of week-long turnarounds, that was the fastest response I ever got from him. His stated reasons were that my case was a "gray area" and that he could not represent a client who had expressed dissatisfaction. In May he had written that he believed I had a claim. Nothing changed between those assessments except that the cheap approach had not produced a settlement offer. When I requested my file, the first email contained only the fee agreement, with a note that my requests exceeded what was required. The documents came only after a second request. In fairness: he charged me nothing and flagged the limitations deadline on his way out when he did not have to. But I lost three months. My case was never built, the defendants never saw the real evidence, and I learned how thin the work was only after being dropped. If you have a documented consumer case and want someone who will develop it and keep you informed, look elsewhere.

I was referred to Mr. Trigsted from another attorney. I contacted him and told him a little about what was going on and asked if he would be able to help. He responded quite quickly and asked me to write out what had happened so he could take a look. Now, this might be okay if what happened wasn't ov...er a years period of time... it would have taken me hours to write out the whole story, instead of just a phone call to explain. I decided to not write it out and that he probably would just ignore me anyway after I did. Fast forward about 2 weeks - I received a phone call from an assistant, I am assuming, by the name of Terri. She told me they hadn't heard from me and that I could call her back and explain my situation. So, feeling a little bit better about not having to write it out, I did that. She then asked me to type it all out so that Mr. Trigsted could read it. At this point, she made it sound like I had a something, so I proceeded. It took me over 3 hours to write about what had happened. I attached it to both Mr. Trigsted and her email and waited to hear. Almost 2 weeks went by, no word. I contacted Terri again, had to leave a voicemail, and asked if she had received what I had written... she said she did and that Mr. Trigsted was still looking it over. I received one email from him on October 22, 2018 asking a question in regards to what I had written... I have not heard from him since. No email or phone call that says "Sorry, can't help you" or "Sorry, still looking into it"... Nothing. I've worked as an attorney's assistant for 2 years, it happens quite frequently and the main reason why I didn't want to write it all out and waste my time. A simple respectful email/phone call is all it takes to let someone know you cannot help them. My situation may have not been important to him, but it is to my family and I. Just from this situation, I would NOT recommend this attorney. I am glad he helped others, but he did absolutely nothing for me but waste my time.

I will never go through this firm again (AVOID). Had to create a new file twice. Every time I emailed or called I was treated like they didn't know anything about me or the case they took for me until they did some digging. My attorney even actually sent me a pretty nasty downright rude email. I have... been represented by 3 attorneys in my entire life and this has been the worst experience I have ever had I feel like I've been duped..