Robert D. Clements, Jr. Attorney At Law & Steve Ongert, Attorney At Law Heartless, Blood sucking liars that take advantage of people that need a Lawyer. They legally rob and should be in prison. Alvin Texas

In 2001, our home became infested with mold after rising water from a tropical storm. We hired a company called Service Master in League City, Texas to remediate our home and contents. This company took everything we owned and stored it into their own storage so it could be cleaned. They then gutted our home and then left. Didn't come back and didn't return our calls. Next thing we knew, they demanded $54,000.00 in order for us to get our belongings back. Our insurance company was also jacking us around by switching adjusters so often leaving our file a big mess. They were not paying our claim accordingly. Meantime, we ( a family of five ) were living in a 33 ft travel trailer in our driveway. In 2002, we hired Robert D. Clements and Steve Ongert to represent us against both Service Master and our insurance company. They promised that they would be able to get us three times the amount of our policy. They claimed that they have done this for all their clients in this situation. Fourteen months later, the attorneys are $23000.00 richer off of our insurance money and we are still living in a 33 ft travel trailer. We also found out that they were also representing Service Master at the same time they were representing us. For fourteen months, they claimed that they were working diligently on our case when in fact I would make calls myself to the insurance company to find that they had not heard from our attorneys. I would talk to our insurance company and successfully get them to send a check for additional living expenses or such but because we were being represented by Clements & Ongert, they would take 33 % off of any money received even though they did nothing to earn it. Finally, we fired these two blood sucking thieves and their so called paralegal...Paula. Some how, they convinced us into giving them a second chance with a promise that they would focus on just our case and get results to get us back into our home. This is now 2003. We kept waiting to here from them and again, they would not return our phone calls. I finally set up a meeting with our insurance company and then called the attorneys to inform them of this meeting. Clements shows up without our file and with very little knowledge of our case. He sat there quietly while our agent sat there and hammered and belittled me. After the meeting was over, Clements said to us, there is nothing more I can do for you, why don't you just sell your home to "We buy ugly home" places. I guess during the meeting, he came to the conclusion that the insurance company was not going to pay out anymore money and that he was plenty satisfied with the $23000.00 that he had already stolen. He had no intentions on filing a law suit although we had repeatedly asked him to do so during the two years he represented us. To make sure he was out of our life, I sent him a second letter releasing him from representing us. We fired them. He then sent us a letter stating that although he no longer represented us, he was going to "retain interest" in our case. Meaning, any money that the insurance company paid us after he was fired, he would still get his 33% of the money. Don't sound very fair doe's it. In Oct, of 2003, our insurance company sent Clements two checks written to my husband and I totaling $5,574.91. Clements forged our names and deposited the checks in his bank account. When I called him about it, he lied and stated that I gave hime written permission to do so. I DID NOT! We wrote the Texas Bar Assoc. with the intire complaint, sent proof and documentation of everything from 2001 to 2003. State Bar replied that they saw no negligence on Clements or Ongert and offered no appeal. Texas State Bar is just as crooked as these attorneys. I even sent the file of evidence to another lawyer and this attorney stated that without a doubt, we were right and they were wrong and could not believe that the Bar did nothing to them. Since then, we have learned of many other families that were robbed and taken by these two attorneys. I hope they find "Ripoff Report" and speak out too. We only owed $70,000.00 on our old mortgage. Now because of them taking most of all our money and causing our home to sit here for 2 1/2 years to rot, we now owe $200,000.00 on our mortgage. They did nothing but cost us everything! We lost our home and our contents no thanks to them. This is where we raised our kids. The contents that we did finally get back that was our kids things too and was so molded and ruined that we had to throw it away. I really hope what comes around goe's around and maybe this is it.

Anonymous
La Porte, Texas
U.S.A.

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