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The Nevada Supreme Court has suspended two more attorneys from practicing within the state.  Robert Weatherford had pleaded twice to driving under the influence of alcohol and was sentenced to up to 60 months in prison.  Susana Ragos Chung plead guilty for submitting false and fraudulent claims for con-men who staged auto accidents.

Please, check out your attorney with us before you give them a penny.  You need to have an honest and trustworthy attorney.  These are another 2 examples of attorneys that would be unable to serve you.  Allow us to point you in the right direction, for whatever legal issue you’re dealing with.  I can’t tell you enough times how important that is.  We’ll keep you sharing these stories with you until the legal community realizes that they are being held accountable for their actions.   You have a choice in who you choose to represent you, don’t ever forget that!

This is a verified review of the Haines and Krieger law firm in Las Vegas, NV.

On 22 October 2010, I made an appointment with Haines and Krieger Law Office for a Loan Modification Consultation. After the appointment I hired the Law Firm to represent me for a loan modification. This Law Firm has over 20 years experience almost exclusively helping consumers like me and they have helped tens of thousands of people with foreclosure or other financial-related issues. Unfortunately there has been a change of events that say otherwise about this Law Firm. These lawyers believe that clients retain them strictly because of their legal skills and insights. As a client I assumed that their law office had the requisite excellent level of skill that I expected from the start. Whenever I made a call to the office I never got directly thru to speak with someone, it was always a recorded message that I left, and it was rare that I got a call back the same day. As a client I felt like I had to chase someone down just to find out what was going on with my case. The whole time that I’ve been with the firm as a client I never met a lawyer until a week ago. Should you investigate this case you will see that I have had over ten people assigned to my case at one time or another and none of them seem to know what the hell they were doing, maybe it’s because they were paralegals instead of lawyers! I raised this question up multiple times to a lawyer with the firm whom I had the pleasure of meeting for 5mins after me complaining several times. Now after a year of this I got a call from the office saying that my house was sold today! They never offered to mediate for me even after I told them I wanted to sit down and do so. All the accusation that I mention above are true and I kept all the email traffic from beginning to present to back me up!  No one deserves to be treated and misrepresent with the banks like the way I have with this Law Firm. They even had my sell date showing 1 Jan 2011 even after I raised the question to them multiple times that this is not correct. I look forward to your reply and a resolution to my situation with Haines ad Krieger. As of right now I want to explorer all my legal options as a former client with them and as a retired military veteran who is seeking to stay in his home.

Here’s another story about a Las Vegas Lawyer being disbarred for violating the bar rules.  According to Cy Ryan at the Las Vegas Sun, Jeanne Winkler has been disbarred for borrowing $15,000 from a client.  Additionally, she took $230,000 from a client’s account and invested it in some ventures that didn’t work out.  This is in direct violation of the bar rules also.  See the article here:  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/17/las-vegas-lawyer-disbarred-stealing-money-clients/

We can’t say enough how important it is to chose an ethical attorney to work with.  There are over 10,000 attorneys to chose from in the State of Nevada.  How would you ever know who you can trust?  Let us do all the research and provide you with the referral.  Please submit your reviews of attorneys to help others in the community.  Thanks.