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Report: #617572

Complaint Review: Brian Ramey, Attorney at Law - Columbus Georgia

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  • Reported By: Hazelnut — Columbus Georgia United States of America
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  • Brian Ramey, Attorney at Law 18 9th Street, Suite 105 Columbus, Georgia United States of America

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I paid a $1500 retainer to Brian Ramey to handle my divorce case. Mr. Ramey initially presented himself to me as a professional who was genuinely concerned about handling my case. As time went on, Mr. Ramey's true colors were revealed. Mr. Ramey went on and on about his own personal problems during our meetings and phone conversations, in the midst of my pain and turmoil due to the difficult issues surrounding my divorce. Mr. Ramey was also extremely rude and callous. When I confronted him about his rudeness, he replied that he has been told that several times in the past. My question to him is why be a divorce attorney to represent people when they are at their lowest emotionally, finanically, and sometimes physically. His horrible attitude only brought more stress into my life at such a difficult time and I requested that he withdraw as my attorney. Mr. Ramey never refunded any of my $1500 retainer and when I aksed him for a partial refund considering what little he had done my case, he replied that all of the e-mails between us were worth the $1500 and then some. I beg to differ and I asked him of he has also charged me for all of the time that he discussed his personal problems during our meetings.

The bottom line is that I am out of $1500 and had additional stress added to my life as a result of hiring Mr. Ramey to respresent me. 

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AUTHOR: Hazelnut - (United States of America)

POSTED: Friday, July 02, 2010

Mr. Ramey, as I worked with you briefly, I am all too aware of your personality and it comes as no surprise to me that you refuse to admit the truth. Everything that I have stated is true - I would swear to my statements and would take a polygraph. I have no energy to continue this back-and-forth with you as I am going through a most difficult divorce. You already have $1500 of my hard-earned money- continue to be happy about it and rejoice in the fact that I trusted you and believed in you enough to represent me at the most horrible time of my life and you treated me with utter disrespect.

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Nonsense

AUTHOR: Brian Ramey - (United States of America)

POSTED: Thursday, July 01, 2010

Not true, nonsense.

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AUTHOR: Hazelnut - (United States of America)

POSTED: Thursday, July 01, 2010

Mr. Ramey, thank you for the rebuttal, but please be 100% truthful in your statements. I requested that you withdraw as my attorney, remember? I stated to you via e-mail that I would rather go deeper into debt and pay a retainer to another atrorney than deal with your continued disrespect and rude behavior. The $1500 that I paid to you was all the money that I had as my soon-to-be-ex husband had placed me in a financial bind.

Next, regarding the use of my nickname on this website, it is totally admissable. The sign-up form states that one may use a first name, nickname, etc..I am not "anonymous". As I provided very specific details of the ordeal, I would expect that you would remember me.

Lastly, my reason for asking you to withdraw as my attoney had nothing to do with me "not listening to you" as you asserted in your rebuttal. I was only kind and respectful to you during our brief attorney-client relationship. Actually, I do not recall you giving me any advice besides checking Facebook, MySpace, etc...I did follow this advice and I forwarded to you via e-mail the results of my search. Of course, I had no idea that you would factor in the few e-mails that I sent to you (at your request) in the $1500 retainer amount at such time that I asked you to withdraw as my attorney. Never did I turn a deaf ear to anything that you told me. We only met in person twice (very briefly) - once was our initial meeting (which you stated was free) and the other was for me to come in and sign documents, had a couple of phone calls, and I sent your supporting documentation via e-mail.

Another jarring episode that comes to mind was when you called my home around 8am one morning and blurted out angrily, "When are you coming into my office to pay me!?" I was shocked and immediately reponded, "Mr. Ramey, I do not owe you any money - you have a $1500 retainer from me". You then replied that you called the wrong person, apologized for the call, then proceeded to ask me questions about my case.

I am not attempting to ruin your reputation at all with this online report. Everything that I have stated is 100% true and I hope that these details will help someone who might be going through a similar ordeal. Divorce is hard enough without having the added stress of being disrespected by your OWN attorney - who you have paid hard earned money to. I never asked for the full $1500 back as you did perform somewhat. I asked for a portion, but you dismissed my request and stated that the time it took you to read my e-mails alone were worth that amount.

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AUTHOR: Brian Ramey - (United States of America)

POSTED: Thursday, July 01, 2010

You can't please everyone all the time, especially in divorce cases. This particuar person was completely unreasonable, did not listen to anything that I had to say, and did not leave me any choice but to withdraw from her case. And yes, I did a lot more work than just read some emails. Anyone who believes this should give me a call and judge for themselves, rather than believe an anonymous poster, who obviously has some other vendetta or personal reason behind their spitefull and unsuccessful attempt to try and hurt my reputation.  And, although it is anonymous on this site, I know who this person is, and out of the hundreds of cases that my firm completes per year, the fact that I know who this person is ought to tell you something. Too bad there is not a Good-job report site, only the negative ever gets reported.

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