Brian Christopher Morris

Paid several thousand dollars up front for Mr. Morris to handle a family law case, after he promised he would have our first motion filed with the court within just a few days of signing the retainer agreement. Instead, he turned the case over to an assistant who burned through our entire retainer,... racking up "billable hours" on long-winded phone calls, telling us stories from her personal life, when she should have answered our simple questions with a simple email that could have been written in 15 minutes or less. What's more, Mr. Morris not only NEVER filed a single motion with the court on our behalf, he never even informed the court we had representation. It seems to us that Mr. Morris took our retainer under false and fraudulent pretenses. We believe he never intended to do any actual work on our case. After reading some of the other reviews posted here, this seems to be a common theme with him. Shame on you, Brian! Our family - and especially our children - has been victimized by your dishonesty.

Brian like everyone else took our money for a Bankruptcy case. The first legal assistant took all my paperwork which was all my personal information such as bank account numbers, social security numbers etc etc.... took time to get everything together only to be told that they cant find it.... this w...ent on... then Christina was gone and there was another legal assistant... again need paperwork..... called several times to talk to Brian...he was never available... always in NY... made appointments for conference call... only to be cancelled cause he had other appointments. We went through 4 assistants and one of them being his wife.. I finally said to her this is getting ridiculous I am tired of sending my information only for it to be lost.... She said she would be handling it ... Again this time brought the paperwork and handed it to them in their hands as there would be no excuse for it getting lost a 3rd time...... Had a court date for the initial hearing. My husband and I had to take days off from work to go to Tampa to court. We get there and he never shows up. His assistant sent in another Lawyer to represent us that day who didn't know us or our case and we were never notified that someone else would be there to represent us. It is our turn and they inform us that the attorney did not send the paperwork in time as it was suppose to be there a week before and they sent it in the morning of the hearing. So our case was dismissed... We were fuming and called the office and gave them a piece of our mind and all she could say "I'm Sorry". I asked to speak with Brian and again in NY and had to make an appointment to set up a conference call. Months go by and we get another court date... I advise the office that they had better have the paperwork there on time as I cant afford to keep taking the days off. We get there and at least the paperwork is there and again no Brian.. Another Lawyer representing us that knows nothing of the case. To make a long story short at the beginning of our initial meeting he had advised us to stop paying out 2nd mortgage as he stated it could be part of the bankruptcy and that in 2 years he could get it wiped out. Well at the end of the bankruptcy before our final appointment at the court Brian informed us that we had to have our home appraised to make sure our home appraised for less than what we owe so that he could make sure that he could get the 2nd mortgage wiped out... well our home appraised for more than what I owed on my mortgage and now he tells me oh well we have to add this amount to the amount you will have to pay monthly to the court which would be over $1,000.00 which we could not afford. I asked him what we should do and he advised us to stop the bankruptcy and that he would work with the bank to get my 2nd mortgage modified. So I agreed... Well once I got the release from the court saying that the bankruptcy was stopped and that they would return all my fees that I had paid I started getting mail from an attorney for the bank. I sent the attorney a letter stating to send all correspondence to Mr. Morris as he would be representing me... All the correspondence that I received showed that they also sent it to Brian so I thought he was handling it. I sent Brian several emails including his assistance email address and not one was answering. I called numerous times and there was always a voice mail stating to leave my name and number and they would get in touch with me within 24 hours.... Nothing no calls again I call and send emails. Finally spoke to someone and of course Brian was not available and was i NY... again set up conference call... he never called me back and they would not give me his number.... now I find out that his license was suspended and I was left struggling with trying to find someone to represent me as the other law firm was getting a judgement against me. Final outcome not able to get a lawyer in time to help me....... BAD LAWYER

Never returns call, never responds to emails, not aggressive all all, does not apply logic to situations and will call you asking for more money after you have exceeded your retainer with no notice. He tried this with me but thankfully I had an email from him stating that I had not yet exceeded hours... and he would let me know when I did. I spoke to him maybe twice over a 3 month period and never received updates unless I asked multiple times. Now that I have lost my retainer, after Mr. Morris doing minimal work, I have no choice but to represent myself for the remaining duration of my case.

I hired Brian through my legal plan in October of 2015 to represent me in a civil litigation matter. My legal plan covers ALL costs except filing fees which Brian wanted up front prior to taking on the case. He charged me $450 up front for the filing fees and then basically vanished into thin air. ... I was never contacted by him or his office regarding my case after that. Over the next 8 months I had to repeatedly call their office to try to get an update on the progress of the case and I was only able to speak with a paralegal. This office seems to be in complete disarray with a high rate of turn over (no surprise there). Over the course of the 8 months I had 3-4 scheduled calls setup with Brian and he failed to show up for every single one of them. These were times that I had to rearrange my schedule to make room for and it all for nothing as he never showed or had the courtesy to contact me stating that he would not be able to make the meeting. When I called I was constantly told by the office when I called that my case was “being worked on" but absolutely nothing ever materialized and it doesn't appear that anything other than cashing my check was ever done. Finally, after the 8 months had passed it became clear that Brian was going to do nothing more than waste my time so I emailed him and fired him. I went from meeting with Brian and him agreeing to represent me against a contractor that did poor work at my home to having to deal with and try to track down Brian just as I had originally done with the very contractor I was requesting assistance with. Currently, Brian refuses to refund my $450 and I'm in the process of filing formal complaints with the NY and FLA state bar associations, getting a new attorney to pursue my contractor dispute AND pursue getting my money from him. In addition, I'm working with my legal plan to have him removed from their plan as a service provider. If you're looking for legal representation I would strongly urge and recommend you to look for another attorney. The unprofessionalism displayed by Brian has been astonishing.

Unfair to take retainer fee and not complete case. This attorney was hired to assist myself as a client and has failed to uphold what he claims he could do. Furthermore he advertises that he puts clients and their cases first in which this is not what actually takes place. His office staff is unprofe...ssional and seems to change frequently. There has been four different office staff members in the last four months that have made multiple promises of personal attention to move case along and have failed to do so resulting in frequent staff turnover. Upon hiring Mr. Morris, he stated the case would be over in three to six months. This is untrue because now over a year and the case is unsettled. Mr. Morris does not follow through with each case personally, as he states that he does. He does not return phone calls and when you are face to face with him, he tells you things you want to hear to get you out of his office. This office is very unprofessional, the attorney does not perform what he claims to do, and I would not recommend his services to anyone.