Kevin D Sisco

On 2/23/18, I met with Kevin Sisco to discuss my divorce. I Gave him a $2500 retainer. And was directed to fill out some paperwork. I checked in with him various times in order to impress him how desperate I was as my husband was not giving me the same amount of money he had been giving me. On 4/...4/2018, Mr. Sisco assured me the the divorce had been filed during the previous week. I was notified by my husband and his lawyer that their attempts to contact Mr. Sisco were futile and that he would not return any type of correspondence. He assured me that was not the case. I inquired what my $2500 retainer covered and he told me filing the complaint and the filing fee would have used up half of the retainer. The motion would take up the rest and more. He gave some excuses as to his lack of accessibility, noting that he had been busy with other cases. He assured me the ball was rolling and had me fill out the financial disclosure which was submitted 6/5/2018. I repeatedly asked him for my docket number and he ignored my requests or told me it was not in front of him. Unfortunately, he never filed anything. On 8/7/2018, I requested he refund my money so I could retain another attorney. Despite several contacts, he did not respond until I let him know I would be filing a grievance. He assured me on 8/9/2018 that his office dropped the ball on the proceedings, he apologized and said that he submitted a check request for my money to be refunded. As of 10/19/2018, my money has not been refunded and now my husband has filed for divorce and I cannot afford to retain a lawyer to represent me.

Kevin is very personable which is a plus, however, be forewarned, he is not prepared. He was handling my divorce. He missed the discovery period despite my repeated reminders. The only motions he filed were motions that I wrote myself for him, such as for discovery, child support, and sale of the ...family home. I have full custody of our only child. Kevin ignored my requests to file for child support for over a year. I have the emails to prove it. He repeatedly agreed to adjournment after adjournment despite my vehement objections and after the Judge's clerk called to inform us that the opposition did not submit a rebuttal. Kevin took it upon himself to request and ajdournment on behalf of the opposition because he was a long standing family friend. So much to loyalty to one's client. Every adjournment cost me over $3500.00 in additional mortgage and back taxes. On one adjournment, he stated that he objected to it but the letter he sent said he agreed. He said it was a clerical error. I believed he lied. He never provided me a written bill. I requested that he send out letters of representation to the banks holding the mortgages. He failed to do so. I have additional emails proving this. He never kept me informed in writing of motions/court appearances. When I terminated his services on a Friday, he told me the following Tuesday that there was a motion scheduled in three days (Friday). He did attempt to adjourn that motion hearing by verbally calling the judge's office. Unfortunately he did not get the opposing attorneys permission. He did not inform them what so ever. To summarize: 1. He failed to keep me informed. 2. He failed to file for discovery during the discovery period waiting over 1.5 years to finally file for discovery at my insistence and writing of my own motion for same. 3. He failed to file for child support on my behalf for over a year until I forced the matter and writing my own motion for child support. 4. He never provided detail billing of any of his services. 5. He was unprofessional by requesting adjournments without notifying or seeking permission of the opposition. 6. He failed to send out requested letters of representation. 7. He told me that he did not agree to certain adjournments yet his correspondence says that he did. 8. During settlement conferences he was not prepared and did not have all his documentaiton in order freqeuntly forgetting or misplacing key documents that I provided him electronically and hard copy. 9. I freqeuntly had to maintain "to do" lists as the case was not progressing. There is more, but I think I have said enough. Caveat

Kevin represented me 15 years ago and did a stellar job at getting the charge minimized. 14 years ago he represented me in a criminal case where the case was thrown out at the grand jury hearing. He went above and beyond. He has great contacts in the area and a wonderful reputation. I would defi...nitely hire Kevin again.