This man needs be be disbarred!!! He did not do his due diligence, he took $10,000.00 from me and…read moredidn't do anything for my son except put the fear of god in him and threw him under the bus! My son wanted to go to trial and he told him if he did he would go to prison for 15 years and then told him to plead no contest then told the judge the reason for the plea was because he didn't want to be held financially responsible for the crime which pissed the judge off. He didn't have him evaluated, didn't get any records, present any information to help him. He wouldn't let us in the courtroom when talking with the judge or prosecutor. he never was on time and even forgot about court and blamed his assistant. He showed up in shorts for god sake!!! My son's bond was revoked and thrown in jail!! I had to get him a different attorney but by that time it was too late. Because he refused to represent my son the way he should have, he was shipped to Marquette for 4 years. I promise, I will get my money back!! DON'T USE HIM, HE'S LAZY, AND SHOULD NOT BE PRACTICING LAW ANYWHERE!!! I'm only giving him 1 star because no stars are an option

I hired Benjamin Whiting to represent me for an evidentiary hearing which didn't ever occur…read more Benjamin DID NOT do any work on my case whatsoever beyond notifying the court he would be appearing as my attorney for the evidentiary hearing which did not happen. My court dates were switched several times by the court- yet this did not encourage Benjamin to contact me via phone/email in regard to my case. I attempted to discuss a witness list with Benjamin- he refused. I attempted to ask Benjamin when and how we would be subpoenaing said witnesses- I received no response. I gave Benjamin a $3,000 retainer where he did nothing for months, & in June after going almost an entire month while attempting to reach Mr. Whiting I chose to terminate him. Mr. Whiting returned $1600 of my money. Rather than solely charging me for the appearance he'd put into the court, Mr. Whiting made up various jobs surrounding my case which he did not do reflected on the invoice. I asked him to describe those jobs, or provide proof- he has since refused to respond to me. I can promise he didn't do them because he wouldn't (and couldn't) quote the issues within my case (he couldn't when I chose to terminate him) and this is because in the months while I waited for my new date- Mr. Whiting and I did not communicate about my own case for a total of 6o minutes. TWICE I believed I had court on a following Monday and neither time Mr. Whiting was prepared for the hearing I had paid him for. It was only luck of the draw those dates were re-arranged, but it doesn't negate this attorneys decision to remain unprepared. We didn't discuss ANY of the evidence I felt I had compiled for the case- because we didn't discuss anything beyond the bare bones initially. Mr. Whiting took my retainer with the bare bones info he had, entered himself as my attorney, & charged me more than $1400 of a $3000 retainer which at this point would have seemingly been spent even though we NEVER MADE IT to the hearing. I will be communicating with the Michigan bar for over-billing and what next steps I can take in this process. I wanted to write a review to prevent people from spending their money with this man. Should you choose Mr. Whiting as representation, please consider my review in case you also end up needing to file against Mr. Whiting for over-billing. I only hired this man because I wanted new eyes on my case- I do not want others to make the same mistake if they're able to prevent it.

I have used Brown & Hilderley PLLC for both personal and business representation. I cannot say…read moreenough great things about this office! They were very easy to work with and had excellent communication throughout the entire process. I would definitely hire them again and would highly recommend their services to anyone in need.

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Navare is one of the worst lawyer in Jackson hired him for my divorce and after he charged me…read morealmost 8000 dollars for a divorce then he wants to quit being my lawyer he has my divorce case messed up and he allowed the judge to do whatever he wants and didn't speak up for me he also had my case so messed up other lawyers didn't want to touch it the other person was in default and he left it up to the judge to set it aside and he also knew FOC was over charging me child support and did nothing about it he even knew I had cousdy of the kids and he never mentioned anything about it and even let the foc charge over what is expected for child support and did nothing about it then wants to quit because he messed everything up even let the judge violate my due process rights so I would never ever recommend him to anyone he was even barred for the same reason and he was sued in 99 so I'm going to sue him to for malpractice and he and his secretary are so rude so don't ever retain him you will lose money and mess your case up bad by the way my name is David Ostrander from Jackson Michigan sorry I have to put one star but he doesn't deserve not even one star