Marcus Ryan Whitney

I received a referral from the Oregon State Bar for an attorney to help me with a problem that I have with some landlords that concerns fraud. I tried to get a hold of this guy but his phone automatically hung up after two rings. I called the Bar back and told them as much and they called him, and he... called me and left a message, then the Bar called me back and said that his phone did work. Finally my call went through. He seemed like he was interested in my case. He asked me to mail him my documents. I said I would and I needed a few days because I wanted to get it all together correctly. I mailed the documents and it was around $11 to mail them because they are wirebound books of ongoing fraud and persecution and harassment by some very unscrupulous landlords. When we had our initial meeting he seemed a little bit put off by the fact that I was so prepared. I don't believe at this point that he wanted anything to do with my case because of all my evidence. At the end of our half hour appointment he tried to back out and I said, come on you can help me. This is not a hard claim for an experienced attorney. He said, give me two days to wrap my head around this stuff and I said, that sounds cool. Then he said, he would call me in two days which would have made it Friday. I did not receive a call from him on Friday and I really don't like it when somebody tells me they're going to do something and then they don't, especially an attorney. So I figured that he must have really gotten into it and could see what was going on. My research notebooks are wirebound and they're in order, very easy to understand. All weekend long I figured I had an attorney that was on my side and we were going to finish this. I did not receive a call from him on Monday, so I called him and his phone hung up on me after two rings. Then, I received a phone call from him and he said, who is this? I said, it is James. He said, what do you want James? I said oh, how is it going? Then he goes, well, oh, umm, I only picked up the phone because, because, l umm, then, he said, what do you want? I said, l want to know if you are going to represent me. He raised his voice and said, NO I AM NOT ! Then I said, ok, l need all of my books back. He said, that he had just typed a letter for me and was getting ready to mail them back to me. I told him that I only use my PO box and we confirmed the address. I said goodbye. After two days I did not receive my documents. And I emailed him asking if he had a tracking number. Later on I received an email and a tracking number. He had just taken them to the post office. I tracked the item and I received my documents the next day. I open them up and I read his letter, there was two identical letters. Both were signed. Apparently he wanted me to sign one of them and return it to him as though I agreed with what he had to say. I didn't agree with anything that he had to say and I noticed that the date on the letter was the 16th, the same day he mailed it. Which means that he lied to me and had not finished writing a letter to mail with my documents. I immediately emailed him and told him I was not signing his letter and that he was shameful. This man wasted 3 weeks of my life, he was not direct. He lied to me more than once saying he was going to call me back in 2 days and that he had typed that letter on the day that we spoke on the phone. Additionally, he had the nerve to keep the $35 check. He most certainly did not earn it and I can tell he didn't even look at all of my documents. Why is he even taking cases on referral? Is it so that he can get an easy $35 ? Well I'm not sure. But I can say this. Do not waste your time! I don't think this guy cares and I know he's dishonest. I feel like he made a fool out of me . . .