Eric Andrew Leavitt

I hired Mr. Leavitt very last minute to step in and help protect my children. He calmly took all the information and went to work immediately. I was terrified and Eric was very patient in explaining what my options were. He worked diligently on my case, involving the prosecutor when it became necessa...ry, and working long past closing time on a Friday to ensure everything was in place to protect my kids. His staff is knowledgeable and equally dedicated to serving their clients. They never made me feel like I was being ridiculous or overreacting.

At the initial consultation I paid in full the requested retainer with his promise to email me the client agreement along with a list of confidential documents I would need to provide copies of. Over a month later i received a rude email telling me he was not able to begin working on my case yet beca...use I hadn't returned the signed agreement he claimed he gave to me in person at the initial consult. I reminded him I had not been given the agreement, he was supposed to email it and I hadnt received anything yet. When I met with him in person he, again, insisted I had been given the agreement in person. I asked him why would I have taken it with me after paying him instead of just signing it right then and there knowing it would hold up my case? There's no reason I would have ever paid him then walked out with the agreement unsigned! He informed me at that point he had received the entire case file but had not reviewed it at all, then went on to say he doubted anything that I was telling him was actually going on because he knew the people and they wouldnt ever do anything like I was trying to claim. Everything I was telling him was backed up by the court file he admittedly never even looked at! He still had the nerve to ask if I wanted to continue on with his representation after stating very clearly he had already concluded I was a liar. Then he riduculed my appearance and implied I was not in my right mind even calling me a paranoid - all without ever once actually viewing my court file. Obviously I decided not to keep him retained and was given approximately 70% of my initial payment back. The rest was supposedly to cover copies of documents that did not come from the physical file but via email from someone at the Bar Association and several of those documents were nothing to do with the case at hand, including divorce papers from 2006 that were of zero consequence to the case. Approximately an hour before our last meeting he forwarded over 20 emails with attached copies of random documents that all came from an administrative assistant at the Bar Association and an invoice charging me for each one and his billed time to forward the emails. The file he was to review is so large it is contained in TWO files, one nearly 3 inches thick and the other around 1 inch thick, yet on his desk at that last meeting he had a single manilla folder with less than 40 documents in it, claiming he had the entire file in his possession. It was all bad and very shady to say the least. I am appalled at the blatant disrespect and extremely unprofessional attitude displayed to a paying client and he wasted five weeks of my time with his utter nonsense