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Complaint Review: Stone Cardwell Dinkin Attorneys at Law - Richmond Virginia
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jennacrafts -
stafford, Virginia, United States of America
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Stone Cardwell Dinkin Attorneys at Law
101 Shockoe Slip, Suite K. Richmond, 23219 Virginia, United States of America
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804-359-0000
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www.SCDlawyers.com
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Stone Cardwell Dinkin Attorneys at Law Excessive Fees Richmond, Virginia
This is in regards to excessive fees from attorney Todd Stone of Stone, Cardwell & Dinkin.
Mr. Stone asked for a 10,000.00 retainer. he said that he would need this before he would be able to start working on my case. I gave him the 10,000.00. what I got from him for the service was 2 meetings, 186 pages of email exchanges, between 3 & 6 phone calls lasting less than 20 minutes. a few on line searches and a few calls out of state. the calls provided no information. Mr. Stone was unable to provide service to me. The little bit that he did on the case provided no leads and no new information, I provided more information to him than he was able to give me. He based his decision on very little knowledge of my case. Once I terminated him he told me in an email that he'd continue to represent me keeping hinself on a "self retained" basis. hell, at the beginning he told me that he couldn't and wouldn't do any work on the case without a retainer, so how is it now all of a sudden after i terminated him he is able to keep him self "self retained". I mentioned to Mr. Stone that I was worried about an ethics issues within his company. after that he told me that his company became very nervous with my stating this and that all of the staff were nervous. I asked Mr. Stone to release 2, 000.00 of my retainer so that i would be able to pay my rent as I was facing eviction. he gave me 2,000.00 and refused to give the rest of the retainer back once I terminated him. He provided an outrageous invoice to use up the balance of the 8,000.00. I didn't expect Mr. Stone to work for free, and I offered to give him half of the 8,000.00, he refused. I don't fee that what little he did for the case I should be charged 8,000.00 for a few phone calls and 186 pages of emails. I've printed off everything that was exchanged and have copies of what I originally gave to Mr. Stone related to the case, which was never reviewed, it was given back to me in the same order and packaging as when I gave it to him. I have reported Mr. Stone and his company to the Virginia Bar Association, the Ethics committe, and the American Bar Association.
Mr. Stone asked for a 10,000.00 retainer. he said that he would need this before he would be able to start working on my case. I gave him the 10,000.00. what I got from him for the service was 2 meetings, 186 pages of email exchanges, between 3 & 6 phone calls lasting less than 20 minutes. a few on line searches and a few calls out of state. the calls provided no information. Mr. Stone was unable to provide service to me. The little bit that he did on the case provided no leads and no new information, I provided more information to him than he was able to give me. He based his decision on very little knowledge of my case. Once I terminated him he told me in an email that he'd continue to represent me keeping hinself on a "self retained" basis. hell, at the beginning he told me that he couldn't and wouldn't do any work on the case without a retainer, so how is it now all of a sudden after i terminated him he is able to keep him self "self retained". I mentioned to Mr. Stone that I was worried about an ethics issues within his company. after that he told me that his company became very nervous with my stating this and that all of the staff were nervous. I asked Mr. Stone to release 2, 000.00 of my retainer so that i would be able to pay my rent as I was facing eviction. he gave me 2,000.00 and refused to give the rest of the retainer back once I terminated him. He provided an outrageous invoice to use up the balance of the 8,000.00. I didn't expect Mr. Stone to work for free, and I offered to give him half of the 8,000.00, he refused. I don't fee that what little he did for the case I should be charged 8,000.00 for a few phone calls and 186 pages of emails. I've printed off everything that was exchanged and have copies of what I originally gave to Mr. Stone related to the case, which was never reviewed, it was given back to me in the same order and packaging as when I gave it to him. I have reported Mr. Stone and his company to the Virginia Bar Association, the Ethics committe, and the American Bar Association.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
3 years later
#2Author of original report
Thu, July 09, 2015
Oh but what I said here is true. I documented everything. All the law enforcement people out of the country this attorney tried to contact wouldn't respond to him. This attorney who sai he has 23 years of experience should have known the procedures of interaction with cases in another country. Now three years later there was no need for an attorney and even if there was he wouldn't have been able to handle it because he cannot practice out of this country another thing he should have known, but did not. It cost me money I didn't need to pay period. Best wishes Mr. Stone
Tbs
Richmond,Virginia,
USA
3 years later...
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, July 09, 2015
i will NOT use this stage to identify any client, the nature or anyone's criminal matter nor the amount of unpaid work that's been done out of compassion in a situation where very few would likely have compassion. The "complaint" made is simply not true. My comments are about this process. Within 24 hours of the "complaint" 3 years ago, someone was calling me to see if I would like to "hire" him to "repair my reputation." I did not obviously pay a dime for what I perceived to be extortion. When I just signed up for ROR, 3 years after the "complaint", I was asked in the form if I would like a referral to a lawyer to discuss a class action suit (against whomever I was about to complain about). Another source of revenue for ROR I'm sure. So ROR, please stop extorting people. I wonder if you will sensor this rebuttal? If you plan to NOT print this, I expect you to also take down the ridiculous "complaint" that was made 3 years ago. And since there has been no other complaint or activity in the last 3 years, nor in the prior 23 years of law practice, it will be interesting to see what sort of activity my "rebuttal" will stir up. ROR, I don't know how much money you make with lawyer referrals and "repairing the reputation" of good people, but it seems that you have quite a "ripoff" scam going.
