Dale L Smith

I like Dale as a person and as a lawyer. I've worked with lawyers before. Some lawyers make me nervous with wanting things to be done quickly and I feel like I'm holding them up. Dale is relaxed, comfortable to talk to, explains the bankruptcy process thoroughly and gets right to work. When I call w...ith concerns he gets back to me right away if it's something I need to know right away. When he doesn't get back to me right away it's because it wasn't anything I needed to worry about. I think maybe some people have control issues and are having trouble letting someone else handle their financial problems. If I wanted somebody to hold my hand, I'd go see a priest or someone to console me. I want him to give my case the attention, not me. I trust him to take care of it.

I paid Dale the start-up fee over 3 weeks ago. I have received only a couple of emails from "Riley Smith" who apparently does the "paper work" and this was only to advise me of what documents didn't turn out well in the faxed info I had sent. I have called and emailed several times to find out what I... should do about the creditors calling me. I have gone through a previous bankruptcy so I know that you can refer them to your attorney but nobody ever told me this with ORE Fresh start, until I had to email twice and finally I got a few words back that I could refer them to their office. After having some additional questions about my case and emailing Riley without a reply, I finally sent Dale an email directly and asked how my case was proceeding and also voiced my concerns about the lack of communication and broken promises on his part regarding a certain issue that I had, which he advised me that he would have Riley talk to me about this. He told me that he has many clients, which I knew because he had told me that the only other time that we had talked and after I told him that I felt that the lack of communication was in my opinion unprofessional he told me that he would mail my money back to me and hung up on me! I will be reporting him to the State Board today. I only wish that I had read this website and what the many others have said here that have had this same type of issue. I would never recommend this "Man" to anybody! I personally think that he is the one who added the good review here as it’s the same language that he used on me.