In April 2006 I was in need of a lawyer. A lawyer referral service – who shall not to be mentioned here – charged me $99.- for their higher class referral service, and subsequently matched me with a lawyer called “Anthony Michael Nelson”. Mr. Anthony Nelson was representing himself as a CA accredited lawyer utilizing this lawyer referral service. This lawyer turned out to be a fraud, as well as a fugitive on the run. I have lost about $32.500.- in cash dealing with this fake lawyer, plus the hardship that goes along when you are suddenly out $32.500.-

Here is a link to a website with information in regards to Michael Anthony Nelson.
http://www.freewebs.com/michaelanthonynelson/

Mr. Nelson was arrested the same weekend as I paid him 32.500.- (foolishly).

When I found out that he was arrested I went to my bank to put a hold on the cahiers check I bought there a couple days earlier. It was verified that the check was not cashed as of the day I went to the bank. Even so I had a news printout of the arrest for Mr. Nelson in my hand, and the person trying to help me to get a stop payment put on the cashiers check, I was told by the bank that their internal banking regulations did not allow for a stop payment on cashiers checks under my circumstances. Needless to say the check was cashed 2 days after I tried to put a stop payment onto the check, and several days after Mr. Nelson was arrested.

I got shafted 4 times within a week.
1) By the lawyer referral service
2) By Michael A. Nelson
3) By my Bank
4) The FBI, who gave me the cold shoulder when I called them twice for help. They basically took my phone number down and told me that they would call me if they had any questions for me. Even so the reason for me calling them, were for them helping me to talk to my bank, as to validate a stop payment placed on the Cashiers Check.

That is my experience with a lawyer referral service.

GB

Also, by trying to say that legalmatch is free is clearly fraudulent, as if you google “legalmatch and complaint” you will see numerous attorneys saying how they got ripped off.

The cost that attorney have to pay is passed on to consumers — especially the exorbinant costs that attorneys pay for legalmatch.com. To beleive otherwise is nieve.

The simple fact is that any attorney can create a basic website and get more business than legalmatch can ever deliver, at a fraction of the cost. In addition, that way the attorney is not being ripped off and the client does not have to pay the increased cost due to their case coming through legalmatch.

CEO goes to jail for breaking into a competitors website, there are numerous complaints about hard sales at inflated prices (as admitted by the CEO, which are currently being litigated in New York as we speak), and now they are caught trying to divert low income persons away from a free legal aid website by claiming to be a free legal aid website? That is the most despicable thing that I can think any company like this could do, even one with legalmatch.com’s aweful track record.

So if the point is that this behavior is acceptable for a start up — or even for a company that has been around like legalmatch.com — then I think you might be dilusional and a poor something…

Yet Another LegalMatch.com Ethics-Related Complaint

http://www.emailwire.com/cgi-bin/news/db.cgi?db=ads&uid;=default&ID;=5606&C1;=Legal&view;_records=1&full;_view=1