My moms neighbor (lawyer) property attached to hers and for many years had been interested in her property sending her letters telling her he would get her more money than what was offered by realtors. Claiming he had some land development plan. Also (lawyer) on other side of her whose property did not attach in anyway was listed on the letters as a partner.

This attorney neighbor executed my moms Will for her. During his deposition he said she was like a mother to everyone in the neighborhood. He claimed he unfortuanately sent his dear friend and neighbor home with the only signed copy of her Will. In his file he only had an unsigned copy. (In her Will she wanted a life estate left to her deaf son to be devided between 5 of her children when he decided to move) He was never questioned about his interest in her property or the letters he sent her including one from the year she passed away. We also had cards he sent to her claiming she was important to him signed with love. They were not mentioned either.

Nurse gave deposition stating she had talked to my mom about having her affairs in order, guess what? the attorney didn’t submit her deposition for trial but sent her a copy to read beforehand. Deposition couldn’t be read from at trial and she was dismissed.

He was supposed to be the first witness on the stand. Didn’t show until second day. This attorney should have been subpeoned with a date and time to appear in court. Our lawyer didn’t submit his deposition for trial or any of the other depositions that were taken on other witnesses so they couldn’t be used at trial. While on the stand testators lawyer did everything possible to get him out of testifying.
Our attorney never questioned him regarding his interest in my moms property or any of the correspondence he sent her.

Our attorney tanked the trial didn’t use evidence, didn’t submit evidence for trial, didn’t call witness’ it was basically a joke. We had a deposition from sibling whom they claimed took care of my mom that proved she was mentally ill and not allowed to testify in a previous case because of her illness. She had been hospitalized 3 times for mental illness and during her deposition could not even name my moms medications and admitted that I was the one who got my mom everywhere. She was on numerous medications including haldol injections for her mental illness. When on the stand she told the court that she drove my mom to her appointments. Our lawyer obviously didn’t read her deposition before the trial. He didn’t submit her deposition for trial as evidence. We paid out thousands of dollars in attorney fees and the testators of Will paid nothing, yet were able to bring in a second attorney to handle the trial for them.

We had to have court ordered case evaluation. The case evaluator wrote that in his opinion we had proven my mom had a Will and it would most likely be admitted at trial. That couldn’t be used at trial.

An estate lawyer was beaten by a tax attorney and divorce lawyer brought in to handle the trial.

The sad thing is this isn’t even a fraction of the B.S. the legal scam artist’s pulled in regards to my moms estate as the nightmare continues…

Her daily ad in the Stars and Stripes (which she is no longer allowed to advertise there) was her ONLY source of clients as everyone who contacted her through this forum became nothing less than her “target of financial opportunity.” Browning-Baker would take any case presented, ask for a $5,000 retainer, make you sign a statement that you will not discuss anything to do with your case with any other lawyer involved which she uses in your case, and then drain you financially for as long as she could – until you fired her.

Closure or doing what you hired her to do (or thought you did anyway) was never an intent of hers as she drags simple cases out for years. For most of her clients and I have personally discussed this with more than 10 of them who were scammed by her like I was, she got away with anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 per client using this modus operandi.

Since she bills monthly and provides her clients with no transparency in the process whatsoever, she falsifies bills and charges her clients for no work actually performed, she lies to other lawyers and misrepresents the facts of your situation in order to bill you for more money, she charges you for a full 30 minutes of her time to answer a 1-sentence email with another 1-sentence email, she bills your credit cards without permission, and she even intentionally generates legal problems with your case which result in her being able to bill you for even more money.

I experienced ALL of the above personally. IF YOU EVER USED THIS LAWYER, PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Unfortunately, their procedures encouraged bill padding. They had a secretary download the email, print it out, put it on the lawyer’s desk, and the lawyer read it a day or so later. The lawyers replied by dictating to their secretaries, who either composed an email or often, a letter on stationery (which they then scanned and sent to me as a PDF). None of these offices had broadband, and they charged me for download time–as well as the secretary’s time.

Also, there were some emails exchanged between myself and the opposing party in the case (before I hired a lawyer), where we were responding to each other by top-posting and did not snip the old emails below. The lawyers insisted they had to read each email entire–they refused to consider merely ignoring old material clearly set off in quote marks–and they billed me accordingly. As well as complaining copiously about “having to read email,” which they implied was unusual and a hardship.