Cross Law Firm, S.C.

TERRIBLE REPRESENTATION!! I researched law firms extensively and chose Cross law firm for their "professed" success rate with disability discrimination cases. I had what every attorney/law firm since then that has looked at my initial complaint, was an "open & shut", "black & white", "iron clad" case. My "T"s we're crossed and my "I"s were dotted. All I was asking for was 7 1/2 sick days to be reinstated and any legal fees aquired as a result of resolving my case. Cross Law firm's representation drug out the 1st mediation process/discussion for over a year, going back and forth with my employer's attorney, racking up $7,000 in legal fees and causing communication with my employer to be only through attorneys, resulting in me having to file a second complaint for their failure to accommodate additional medical issues that increased in severity throughout the mediation! I REPEATEDLY told The Cross Law firm attorney throughout the year that I was unable to pay for legal services, she continually replied by saying, "we will work something out", I consistently responding to that statement saying, I couldn't even afford small payments. She consistently replied again with, "we will work something out"!!!!!!! After a second attempt at mediation with zero success, and racking up another $10,000 in legal fees trying to settle my second complaint via correspondence with my employer's attorney, I terminated my use of Cross Law firm's representation/legal services. At the 2nd mediation, one of the last statements the Cross Law Firm attorney said to me was reassuring me "we would work something out with regard to their fees. I received a call from their "receptionist/financial department" the next day asking me to contact her. I returned her call and left a voicemail message that same evening. I left another message three evenings later. She did not call me back. INSTEAD, two weeks later I received a letter from a collection agency adding on another few thousand in processing fees! They ended up taking me to court and I had to set up monthly payments that have put another financial! This put yet another financial strain on me and my family, in addition to the loss in wages, due to still not being accommodated at work! It's been two years since I terminated Cross Law firm's services. They never Once attempted to contact me to work anything out! I had to finish going through the first complaint unrepresented throughout the ERDC's investigation, which was a nightmare with regard to being time consuming and stressful. I was able to get my employer to settle for the 7 1/2 sick leave days being reinstated and $7,000 paid toward the legal fees! Something Cross Law Firm, "so called professionals couldn't manage to do!! I had to go through the 2nd complaint's investigation unrepresented also and had a very difficult time knowing how to respond and get my point across. My hearing is set for September 7th and now I can't find an attorney to take my case on contingency because of the large amount of legal fees attached to the second complaint that has to go to Cross Law Firm off the top!!! Although my primary attorney from Cross Law firm was no longer employed there shortly after I received the collection notice, she consulted with multiple other, "more senior" attorneys at their law firm throughout the the time they represented me, so this is not just a secluded case of a "bad" attorney!!
Cross Law firm has caused me and my family more stress and hardship than I could have EVER imagined!! As absolutely sad and terrible as this is to say, the truth is, if I knew then what they were going to put me through I would have chosen the disability discrimination over the end result!! I believe in standing up for your self and your rights but this has been a price way too high to pay!!
Physically and Emotionally drained,