I had a simple legal situation: i needed to obtain a temporary injunction to keep an unruly neighbor away from my property for ten days. I found the name of attorney sarah orme on the state of utah bar site, in the looking for work column. To show the readers how simple it is to accomplish the filling out of the form, here's the link describing a utah temporary stalking injunction: Https://www.Utcourts.Gov/resources/forms/civilstalking/).
Based on my brief interaction with attorney orme, she is not, in my estimation, ready to be handling casework on her own. The assignment was to file a form with the court: she did not do that. I called a halt to her "work," and attorney orme shoots me a bill for $420!!!! i figured she had done about $250 worth of "work," but would agree to $300, to get my retainer back so that i might retain an attorney that i could trust to represent my interests effectively. By the way, i will state this, attorney orme has learned to do one thing quickly in a little less than four years as a member of the bar--shoot off an invoice by email, and make sure her senior partner runs over to cash a bank check in person at bank of the west!! Can you make payroll this week, lincoln?).
Several attorneys that i have spoken to in the interim agree with the assessment that $420 is excessive in this circumstance, with no work to show for it, let alone a legal, executed and explained Principle of informed consent) retainer agreement.
Attorney orme's boss is an attorney named lincoln hobbs. I sent him a settlement offer of $300. Judge this man's maturity and integrity for yourself. About not getting some monies refunded when i closed a professional practice over seven years ago due to medical disability. Sorry, attorney hobbs, that woman was "satisfied in full." do you know what that term means, attorney hobbs, admitted to the utah bar in 1986? Hobbs claims that i defamed his associate, and that he will fight it everywhere. I have had an attorney review all my online postings. The standard for defense against a claim for libel is the truth. Opinion is not defamation.
Well, i don't mind spending another $100 Filing fee) to drag attorney hobbs, his partner attorney olson, and attorney orme in front of a pro temp judge colleague of theirs on a thursday night for an hour and a half just to aggravate him out of his gourd. I think the three of them will look silly in that small claims court, and, who knows, maybe i'll even win. I'll be sure to call a friend who is a reporter on the city beat for the major daily to show attorney hobbs in action. I'm sure he will be posturing and pontificating over a couple hundred bucks that night). My considered opinion is that attorney hobbs is more concerned about money than a client's safety and that of his family's well being.
By the way, salt lake city, i filed the injunction myself. In no time.
My recommendation is to avoid hobbs & olson, l.C.. Stick with van cott, kirton mcconkie, clyde snow, the known entities, the "tried and true" firms. I was entirely disappointed. I am left to wonder about the quality of legal education in this day and age.
Hobbs & Olson Reviews
I had a simple legal situation: i needed to obtain a temporary injunction to keep an unruly neighbor away from my property for ten days. I found the name of attorney sarah orme on the state of utah bar site, in the looking for work column. To show the readers how simple it is to accomplish the filling out of the form, here's the link describing a utah temporary stalking injunction: Https://www.Utcourts.Gov/resources/forms/civilstalking/).
Based on my brief interaction with attorney orme, she is not, in my estimation, ready to be handling casework on her own. The assignment was to file a form with the court: she did not do that. I called a halt to her "work," and attorney orme shoots me a bill for $420!!!! i figured she had done about $250 worth of "work," but would agree to $300, to get my retainer back so that i might retain an attorney that i could trust to represent my interests effectively. By the way, i will state this, attorney orme has learned to do one thing quickly in a little less than four years as a member of the bar--shoot off an invoice by email, and make sure her senior partner runs over to cash a bank check in person at bank of the west!! Can you make payroll this week, lincoln?).
Several attorneys that i have spoken to in the interim agree with the assessment that $420 is excessive in this circumstance, with no work to show for it, let alone a legal, executed and explained Principle of informed consent) retainer agreement.
Attorney orme's boss is an attorney named lincoln hobbs. I sent him a settlement offer of $300. Judge this man's maturity and integrity for yourself. About not getting some monies refunded when i closed a professional practice over seven years ago due to medical disability. Sorry, attorney hobbs, that woman was "satisfied in full." do you know what that term means, attorney hobbs, admitted to the utah bar in 1986? Hobbs claims that i defamed his associate, and that he will fight it everywhere. I have had an attorney review all my online postings. The standard for defense against a claim for libel is the truth. Opinion is not defamation.
Well, i don't mind spending another $100 Filing fee) to drag attorney hobbs, his partner attorney olson, and attorney orme in front of a pro temp judge colleague of theirs on a thursday night for an hour and a half just to aggravate him out of his gourd. I think the three of them will look silly in that small claims court, and, who knows, maybe i'll even win. I'll be sure to call a friend who is a reporter on the city beat for the major daily to show attorney hobbs in action. I'm sure he will be posturing and pontificating over a couple hundred bucks that night). My considered opinion is that attorney hobbs is more concerned about money than a client's safety and that of his family's well being.
By the way, salt lake city, i filed the injunction myself. In no time.
My recommendation is to avoid hobbs & olson, l.C.. Stick with van cott, kirton mcconkie, clyde snow, the known entities, the "tried and true" firms. I was entirely disappointed. I am left to wonder about the quality of legal education in this day and age.