Complaint Review: PADULA HODKIN PLLC - ADAM HODKIN - Boca Raton Florida

AUTHOR:  THIS REPORT WAS PLACED BY MISTAKE. PLEASE DELETE

Please take notice that Adam Hodkin(“Plaintiff”) has initiated an action in the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Florida, case number 2015-CA-013256-MB-AI (“the Action”), due to false statements made by “the author of original Report.”  In the Action, Plaintiff seeks to subpoena the records of Xcentric Ventures, LLC for your identifying contact information to be sent to Adam Hodkin, Esq., Padula Hodkin, PLLC, 101 Plaza Real South, St. 207, Boca Raton, FL  33432.  Plaintiff has served a subpoena on Xcentric Ventures, LLC, the company that owns and operates this website, to reveal your identities.  You may have a right to file and serve a response to the subpoena anonymously. If you intend to file and serve a response, please do so, or notify us of your intent to do so, on or before January 5, 2016 at the address above or Adam Hodkin's email address ([email protected]) or facsimile number, both of which you should have since you claim to have been a client of Hodkin's firm.

This report is a hoax and a fabricated story.  I have filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Florida, captioned Adam Hodkin v. John Doe, Case No. 2015 CA 013256 XXXX MB AI, to discover the identity of the poster, and am issuing a subpoena to "Ripoff Report's" corporate owner to obtain the identity of the poster. 

The poster's anonymity is indicative of the poster's lack of truthfulness.  A poster telling a "truthful" story would have no fear of liability, and thus, should have no concern about revealing his/her identity.  This poster has chosen to be anonymous because the poster knows that his/her comments are false and constitute libel per se against me and my law firm.

Amongst other professional honors I have been privileged to receive throughout my career, I have been recognized as "AV" rated by Martindale Hubbell since 2012, the highest rating given by that organization.  I have been named in Florida Trend Magazine as the South Florida Business Journal as one of the "Best of the Bar" and "Legal Elite" in Florida.  I currently serve, and have served in the past, on Florida Bar committees.  I am a member in good standing of the Florida Bar, and have no disciplinary history with the Florida Bar.

The "hoax" report is demonstrably untrue in the following respects:

1. Neither I nor my firm were hired in September, 2015 for any family law case.

2. We have only one paralegal in our office, and the same person has served as our paralegal for over four years.  We have had no other paralegals during that time.  It is impossible for a client who hired us in September, 2015 to have come to our office and to have met 4 different paralegals, much less 3 who started fresh on the hoaxster's "case".  Such persons do not now and have never existed.

3. I was not in New York, nor a hospital, nor on vacation for "one month in [sic] a half" at any time from September, 2015 to the present.  I have never taken a "one month in a half" vacation in my working career.

Other untrue statements in the post that would be known as untrue by anybody practicing law in Florida:

4. It is unlikely that for a new case filed in September, 2015 that hearings could be set for more than one or two motions between September and November, when this hoax post was put on Ripoff Report. 

5. Neither we nor virtually any other attorney can resolve a "contested"  family law case for under $10,000.   I have never told any potential client that such would be possible.

6. A "parenting plan" is a short form that can be filled out within an hour or two that specifies when a mother and father will have visitation with their child(ren) (e.g., rotating weeks, vacations, and holidays).  I have yet to experience a parent needing over a month to prepare a parenting plan.

Other untrue statements in the "hoax" post:

7. I have never given a client a fictitious bill, nor do I create false time entries.  Nor am I running a Ponzi scheme.

8. I return all client calls and emails within 24 hours of their receipt, if not immediately.I challenge the poster to do all of the following -- none of which should be problematic except for the fact that the story the poster put up is a fabrication: (a) provide his/her identity; (b) produce an engagement letter with my firm for the matter described in the hoax post; (c) produce the notices of multiple hearings the poster claims were set; (d) produce the alleged fictitious bill; and (e) any other evidence of the poster's fictitious claim.

((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration)). ((Statement REDACTED as false pursuant to Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration)).