Scott Wayne Johnson

Scott Johnson and his partner Deric Orr have gone above and beyond. My case started in March 2015. It is now June 2021. Everything is finally over. Every step of the way, one factor or another slowed my case down.. Although the efforts that these two beautiful men put forth showed their worth time,... and time again. I went from facing 8+ years in prison for a crime that happened before 2008, to being sentenced with 15 days Jail and 15 days Work Crew. I don't know the full details of all the effort they put in, although the only bad news I was ever given was that something happened to slow the case down.. Whether it be a vengeful prosecutor, or someone else's screw up. Every step was arduous and stressful, I've been a ball of anxiety... But these two never gave up. I paid an initial sum of $6,000-$8,000 (forgot the amount).. And not a single time was a requested or required to pay more. I believe the effort put into this extremely arduous case far exceeds the price that was paid. Based on anecdotal evidence, Scott Johnson and Deric Orr are the best Defense team in all of Eastern Washington.

A simple contempt case that should have been done in one court appearence lasted almost 6 months. He didn't keep us posted on things happening. We would call and get an "I don't have an answer for you." It would have been easier to do the work ourselves after working with the people in his office. We... finally switched to a different attorney and the case was over with the next hearing. We got nowhere really slow with this attorney and now have a $3000 bill to show for it. Also.. the outcome of the contempt that he told us to prepare for was not what we got. We got much more than expected using a different attorney.

Mr. Johnson cared little to nothing about my case, and despite me paying him $5000+ dollars over a years time for my case to just be continued and continued for no apparent legitimate reason, I ended up getting screwed over and basically nothing at the end of it all. I got the minimum "every other w...eekend" with my kids, full $800+ child support to pay my ex, nothing from home, didn't get anywhere close to half my property, nor my dog, or anything else that was mine or anything I wanted. I feel I would have been better off simply going in on my own pro-se. He never kept me updated on anything that was going on with my case, told me things would be in the final decree, that were ofcourse never put in there also. Judge told me that my decree was written poorly and should have had much more detail about kids visitation dates/times, property settlement lists, etc, etc, .. Terrible experience, stay far away from his attorney!!!

It was a big waste of money and time to hire this lawyer. We paid $12,000 for absolute nil. He didn't keep us informed for our case and always left us in the dark. The trial lasted for almost two years and we only met with him three times in the whole process. We lost the trial and the person who was... prosecuted is now spending five consecutive years at camp pedophile. What he told us was all lies as none of the things that he said occurred. He always told us the case was in the bag even though we lost big time. His employee's in his office treated everyone who showed up as if they were already criminals.

I hired Scott as my defense atty. For a federal probation violation, he was prompt, easy to communicate with and personable. I highly recommend his services and feel he is the best defense attorney in our area. He replied to emailed questions, even though I was asking a lot of questions, all the time.... He text me back regularly, and was very kind and friendly with myself and my fiancée. My only disappointment was the fact the judge gave me another year of supervised release, but, that is always expected with the US Gov't. In federal probation violations. Overall, my case was a win and I feel the money spent on my defense was justified because I would not have had an attorney from the federal defenders take the time to actually put a defense together, they are famous for making plea deals. And Scott actually took the time to defend me to the judge and the court.