Richard H. Raphael, Attorney at Law

Hired Richard Raphael for my family matter. Biggest mistake! He turned out to be a complete shyster. He offered me a fixed rate for ALL matters up until trial. Instead of living up to his obligations and honoring the contract, rather, he would consistently hem and haw as there were matters that had come up and he demanded I pay him thousands more. Well, that did not happen. He copied and pasted ALL motions that I wrote up. He filed them and failed to have me look them over. They were riddled with grammatical and paragraph formatting errors. He pretended he knew Family Law but turned out he did not know how to handle my case. He consistently flipped flopped and had no idea how to proceed. He consistently ignored my emails and rudely cut off other party during a remote conference and insisted he did it purposely. I finally got fed-up and fired him. I filed a dispute with my CC company. He submitted his rebuttal and it was riddled with lies and deception. He even had the audacity to submit a completely trumped up legal services rendered invoice and lied as to the contents. He offered me a fixed rate of $7000 and claimed he did in excess of $15,000. The credit card company saw right through his lies and deception and the claim was immediately found in my favor. I received half my money back. I will take him to small claims court to recoup the remainder. Hired new Attorney and best choice I could have made.