David B Gates

I entrusted David Gates with representing me in a child custody case. Although he did bill plenty of time to my account, I saw very little evidence of him actually spending time on my case. I had zero visibility into what he was doing or what the status of my case was, and it was virtually impossible... to get even basic answers from him. I was kept so uninformed of my case that I was completely unaware of court dates and documents filed with the court, some of which I leaned about for the first time when reviewing my case with his replacement. Hire this person at your own risk. You have been warned.

I hired David for a very simple matter. After 2 months and many phone calls/emails he still did not file anything for us or write ANY letters on our behalf. Our case just stalled while complications coming from the defense's side get piling up and making our case even harder. We finally after two mo...nths of him doing NOTHING, asked for our money back. After 3 1/2 months of still nothing filed or written on our behalf we got our money partially back.