Lathrop GPM LLP

Legal malpractice We hired lawyers at Lathrop GPM in August 2017. At the time we were victims of fraud, which had been investigated by the FBI since April 2016. Subsequently, the fraudster was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison. Unfortunately, by the time of indictment, he had spent almost all the money he had stolen from us. Lathrop offered to support our efforts to regain any possible funds, from any other people involved in the case, on an hourly basis with a budget for total costs of roughly $100K. After invoicing almost $250K until June 2018, Lathrop suggested to move towards arbitration which would require that our case be handled on a contingency basis, thus giving the attorneys 40% of any funds to be received. We completely disagreed with this move – having paid 2.5 times the budgeted amount by then - and requested a much lower percentage, which should be agreed on in writing. We asked for an agreement several times during the 3 subsequent months without success. Ultimately, the insurance agreed to pay full policy limit without the arbitration process ever taking place. No contingency agreement was ever signed. The attorneys took 40% of the proceeds with the promise to support our battle against the financing bank at no cost. They - in addition - did not reimburse us for all hourly fees paid. In March 2021 the bank filed suit against Lathrop GPM, which led Lathrop to the conclusion that they needed to drop our case. We were then forced to find new attorneys, which Lathrop refused to pay, leaving us with expenses of several $100Ks in additional legal costs. Our new attorneys discovered that Lathrop had deliberately sent us on a suicide mission by filing suit against the bank. This is a short version of a very complicated matter but does cover all important facts.

Used to work through Pitney Bowes at Lathrop and Gage in 2003for 3 years Lathrop and Gage attorneys and paralegal and legal secretary were all very nice and good at what they do

Highly unprofessional group. Extremely misogynistic and made several uncomfortable remarks about POC. It’s disappointing and disgusting to hear a group of professionals speak that way about human beings. If you are low income/not a white male I would not recommend.

I sent a request for proposal to this firm and received a very condescending email from Rosalee McNamara. She inferred that my "unsolicited" email was not welcome. She went out of her way to emphasize that I was not a client of her company and that I should seek services elsewhere. I sent 30 emails out looking for legal help and this is the only firm that replied in a rude and unprofessional manner. I would not recommend them under any circumstances. Attitudes like this give the law profession a bad name.

Moved back to this building after almost ten years. There has been alot of improvements that I've seen so far!! Looking forward to spending an entire day there once COVID is under control!!