Kyle D Edmonds

The good: Kyle is smart and he knows HOW to be lawyer. He interviews well and makes you think its a good idea to hire him. As all lawyers do, he wants an extraordinary amount of money up front The bad: In my own experience, he disappears after he gets the retainer. Gone. No calls. No emails. A we...ek before my important deadline I called him thinking he had my papers drawn up. Nope. He hadn't even looked at them yet. I felt like I was being scammed. 6 months later, DAYS BEFORE MY TRIAL, same thing. He disappeared for weeks. Ignored emails from me AND the opposing counsel, all of us wondering what was going on. He just ghosted everyone. It could not be more obvious he didn't care about me or my case, or worse, my relationship with my child. The ugly: I will never work with this man again as a lawyer. Remember, once they have your retainer, you are stuck with them. Make sure you choose who "represents" you carefully.

Kyle is a great salesperson, he will sell you on how good he is in court, what he feels the outcome of your case will be, and his timelines for getting things completed. But I promise you will only find yourself frustrated, alone, and walking around with a much lighter wallet if you choose to put th...e faith of your case in Kyle. Over 6 weeks went by and nothing got completed. Kyle has missed every single timeline he sold me on, he lied about getting things to the court on time, and then he stopped replying altogether. No phone calls, no more emails, no voicemails. Nothing. I did receive one last reply from Kyle, but that was only after threatening to go to the Oregon State Bar for negligence. His response was a document for me to sign. A document that I had already signed weeks prior and that he promised would be uploaded to the court system when I had initially signed it. Then he apologized that he could not find the original copy. He still has my retainer though...that little task he took care of right away. OSB has my complaint now since Kyle has cut off all communication. Sadly, I am sure that I am not the only one. Kyle, I don't know if you will even read this since you don't appear to care anymore, but your professionalism really needs some help.

I could never recommend this person due to lack of professionalism, negligence, and appearing thoroughly incompetent when it came time to represent me in front of a judge. He stuttered and was not able to speak up about basic information. He put all control in the hands of the other side's attorney ...as far as specific wording in the final documents. This had the effect of causing great harm and financial loss. During a critical time, he simply went AWOL for over a month, during which he did not respond to phone calls or email. He did not provide documents or communication to the opposing attorney as he had discussed with me that he would. He did not file a response within the time frame requested by the other attorney as he stated he would. This caused great harm.

Upon discussing and agreeing to course of action to take Mr. Edmonds failed to provide opposing attorney with information relating the decision. Making any form of settling prior to trial impossible. He did not follow through on important discovery documents nor compel the other party to admit or fur...ther clarify discovery documents. Mr. Edmonds does not remember or retain conversations that you have with him. I repeated incidences and conversations multiple times. This caused an overly inflated cost to me. Written correspondence between opposing attorney was not supplied. I was not informed of documents that Mr. Edmonds received on my behalf. He did not review evidence I supplied him. He was highly uninformed and unprepared for trial. Failed to file important papers and documents prior to trial. He provided Judge and opposing party different copies of parenting time/ parenting plan documents during court proceeding causing great confusion and frustration to Judge and opposing party. In turn causing great embarrassment to myself. After trial was over, come to find out the parenting plan/time that I supplied Mr. Edmonds was not the documents used during the trial thus causing the Judge and opposing party to agree or not agree to items that I did not request.