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Complaint Review: The Blankenship Law Firm - seattle Washington
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The Blankenship Law Firm
1000 second street seattle, 98104 Washington, USA
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2063432700
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http://www.blankenshiplawfirm.com/
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The Blankenship Law Firm Scott C. G. Blankenship Think twice before doing business with Scott C. G. Blankenship law firm, the biggest rip off attorney to his own clients seattle Washington
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Read the fine print for Scott Blankenship's law firm in your fee agreement. It may say 40% or his attorney fees but you are actually looking at double that when it comes to his overly padded bills and your settlement amount. Here are the real numbers: He will get over 83% of your settlement and you will get less then 17%. If he had put the real numbers in his contract, no one would sign up for failure with him.
Don't fall for the "I put in 40% because my fees are always within that range or under and I always get the case done effeciently". It is a complete lie.
It took him years to handle my case and my fellow employee had EEOC move faster then Blankenship. Blankenship could not even obtain the files for a EEOC case that I was involved in. The governmental system moves faster then Scott Blankenship's firm, yet full staff at Blankenship is on your case hours and hours at a time when it comes to billing but nothing happens for years. You will NEVER receive a bill for what he or his staff are really billing you. Beware of his tactics and do not do business with this firm.
Once a settlement is on the table, as it was inevitable with my case since other employees were involved. Mr. Blankenship will then wait to hear what the settlement amount will be finally agreed upon. At the end of the mediation he will print out a stack of bills and throw it down on the table to you. You will never see any of this until Scott Blankenship knows what the settlement amount is so he can somehow show you that your bills now almost equal that amount. It is amazing how Mr. Blankenship works that. He wasted your entire time with his firm because every penny should go to him.
I had to hire another attorney to review his bills and found Mr. Blankenship billed higher rates for less qualified attorneys. Another bill was $1750.00 but Blankenship would mark it up to $3,850.00 which did not cociencede with the backup documentation. What a scam this firm runs!
If you think that is unfair and you try to tell him to reduce his unreasonable bills he will tell you that if you sign to agree to the settlement, he will negotiate his bills after you sign the settlement and then he will go back on his word. Once you sign he will say "I will not negotiate". I offered him 50/50 but he would not accept, he wanted it all.
How can a ethical attorney do such a thing to his client? How can the attorney you trusted to take your case lie to you? If you fight him as I have he will threaten and bully you to get every last penny so that you as a client walk away unhappy with nothing. You lost your job, went through all the stress of a lawsuit only for Mr. Blankenship to take everything.
Mr. Blankenship's firm is greedy and only in it for themselves. They care nothing about their clients and even disclose other case details by email that are a "mistake". I wonder how many times he sends other case details out to other clients by "mistake".
The man should be out of business and not take advantage of people.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
No Fee Disputes?
#2Author of original report
Tue, June 21, 2016
The honorable Richard A. Jones recently had occasion to evaluate Scott Blankenships fee petition in another case that the Blankenship firm handled. The case, Continue v. Corporate Services Group, inc. 30 F. Supp3d 1051 W.D. Wa. 2014, contains observations about Scott Blankenships law firms fees that are similar. In summary, Judge Jones reduced Scott Blankenships law firm fee petition by $1 million dollars! The public can look up the case and determine the truth.
Scott Blankenship
Seattle ,Washington,
USA
Uniformly Extreme and Patently Unfounded
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, June 09, 2016
We regret that this former client feels this way. While we respect and appreciate candid feedback and always seek to learn from it, this client actually brought these accusations to court—the first-ever fee dispute our firm has had. A federal judge ruled that I, Scott Blankenship, “achieved an excellent result for [this client] despite the difficulties that this case presented.” In fact, she received the upper end of what she authorized. Regarding her accusations that my firm unfairly collected our contingency fee, the U.S. District Court ruled, “nothing of the sort occurred here.” Regarding her claim that I did not diligently prosecute her case, the federal judge recognized, there “is no evidence in support of this accusation.” The judge reviewed all of the evidence and concluded that each of her accusations was unfounded. He ruled her accusations were “uniformly extreme and patently unfounded, which reflects poorly on the accusers—attorneys who, quite frankly should know better.” We continue to have empathy for this former client and her many struggles and wish her nothing but the best.
