Law Office Of Henry C. Paine, Jr.

Feedback from Clients: Henry C. Paine, Jr. never answered any of my calls, emails, or texts after paying the initial retainer. This caused my case to be dismissed and caused more headaches. I hired another attorney. This is a terrible lawyer! My son’s court date is today and has been reset to next month. I do not know if this is a good thing since it is new to us, but I will update my review. Hoping for an outcome next month since he lives 4 almost 5 hours away now. Here we are six months later, and we had TWO no-shows from Mr. Paine! Last court hearing was September, and my son was advised he would be placed on Pre-Trial Diversion. I emailed Mr. Paine yesterday (Nov. 18th) to see if he needed to be in court. He immediately responded and asked if the PTD paperwork had been completed. I emailed back around 9 something am and then again at 11 something am stating he had not received any paperwork. There was no response from Mr. Paine. We arrive today in court and he is nowhere to be found. We had to wait almost 4 hours for all cases to be done for them to reset, AGAIN. Now, while waiting I am told that this PTD could have been done the first announcement which was back in May! Not only that, I was told to contact the DA’s office regarding the PTD paperwork. I make the call to the DA’s office and they have no record of my son’s information being submitted to them!!!!!!!! Luckily the lady was really nice and looked him up and saw that he is to be set up. She was nice enough to say she will get the ball rolling and have someone from the prosecutor's office contact Mr. Paine. When I say it has been a NIGHTMARE dealing with him, it has! He barely communicates with his clients, it’s like pulling teeth to get a response at times. We live 5 hours away, common decency would have been to respond and let us know he had not submitted the information yet or told whatever lie… but to let us drive yet another 5 hours is ridiculous! Like I told him via email, this has taken a toll on me physically and mentally. If you want to be left guessing, having your case reset for no reason, then sure retain him! I plan on taking my complaint higher up to the board because this is unacceptable and unethical!