James A Sturdevant

Hired James to defend me in a fraud case he failed to properly inform me of the value of my suit, I asked multiple times what my case was worth during an out of court settlement so that I could make my own decision when I asked why he wouldn't tell me his response was he didn't think I had the capaci...ty to make my own decision, his first ruff draft low balled me at 75 thousand dollars wow nope your fired and now I sue him

I hired this attorney to help me recover my title from a car dealer that was selling (lemons), charged 500 then more and more, as months past i heard nothing from him. My worse experience is turning my case into a person injury case with a orthodox second contract that sent red flags and last minute ...to file the case made a clear statement of the unethical conduct . I asked for my file and all the research he presume he did and failed to provide it and giving me a bill for 92 hours worked on my case with nothing to show. He was always talking about himself and not focused on my case until the last minute. I had to let him go.

I was charged for work outside our agreement and he dragged me through a long, ugly, trial in an attempt to force me to pay. He also submitted over a hundred pages of my confidential financial documents to the court, without redacting any of the confidential information that was included. He could h...ave asked the court to protect the documents, or he could have blacked out the sensitive information, but he didn't and now I am a repeat victim of criminal identity theft. Oh, and if you do win your case against him, don't expect him to pay the court ordered judgment.

This attorney did not have a signed agreement yet and still billed while he was trying to figure out whether or not he could even handle my case. I did some research and found that my area of law that I needed help with was not an area that he practiced in. I told him that I would not be signing th...e contract to hire him. AND HE STILL BILLED ME!!! Don't call him because he will bill you!!

Used him eight years ago to help me on a 2000 medical bill dispute. He didn't even try to help us. Paid him a huge amount of money over what I agreed only to have him show up to court looking like he came off a bender. His opening statement was "Your Honor I don't even have a case" but it gets bet...ter. Six years after that he sues me for a bill I paid and demanded interest so high it was laughable. So that meant not only did he file my case in the wrong court all 2000 of it but he tried to get 12,000 for doing it. He lost his suit against me because I represented myself and he was on the other side. As the judge said, he overbilled, was disorganized and said my facts were more creditable. Check out his Bar complaints...lots of them