Morthland Law office

I am rejecting this response because:

May 27, 2020Revdex.com Dispute Resolution Department8100 N. University St. Peoria, IL 61615

Subject: My Rebuttal to Attorney ***’s response on May 14, 2020;

Complaint IDHere is an item by item Rebuttal:Mr. states that I met him on April 19, 2019, for two matters. This is incorrect. I met him on April 16 to discuss ONLY one matter & that is to recover the Unpaid rent, *ate fees, & Damages to the properties left by my tenant. During my meeting, I told him that I had served her eviction notice from *** by U, S. Mail, & by text, but she ignored those notices. I had to travel to *** to give her LANDLORD’S FIVE DAYS NOTICE of eviction, which I did on April 15. In my meeting, I told him verbally that I have pasted the Eviction Notice on the Property door, & was going to serve her the same in person (I did show him the notice). On April 16th.I tried to serve the notice to my tenant (Ms.) at her work place as she had abandoned my property, & had not given me her forwarding address. She refused to accept the notice, I went to *** post office and served her the notice by ‘CERTIFIED MAIL’ (copy attached).On April 18th, 2019, Ms. served me “No contact notice”. On April 19, I went to *** County court house to find the procedure the submit my response. On April 22, 2019, I filed my response. I tried to find out if the hearing date can be done right away, but the earliest available date was May 7, 2019. From April 30 till May 13, I was going to be in ***, so, it was impossible for me to come and represent myself on that day. I called ***aw office, & left a message on April 22, that I will have to add that item in representing me. His statement that I came to his office on April 19, & asked him to represent on two matters is INACCURATE. The fact is that I asked him to represent me for “No contact order” did not happen on April 19, as he claims.I am reiterating the following facts that Mr. has NOT ADDRESSED IN HIS RESPONSE:• Mr. did not prepare an Attorney client work document: On April 23, I went to his home that and paid $2,000 and it was my understanding that that was the total one *ump sum cost of working on two items for me. If Mr. were to prepare such a detailed document, & also indicating his hourly rate, perhaps I would have cancelled my representation by him & searched another attorney or cancelled my trip and represented myself on May 7. Mr. has NOT addressed this item as to why he did not follow the traditional attorney client agreement process.• Mr. did not provide me monthly or quarterly statements of work done, and money charged. It confirmed my assumption that money paid to him on April 23, 2019 covered the Total Cost.• Mr. told me that he will add the $2,000 to the “Attorney Cost “in the cost recovery from my Tenant. The cost recovery would include the unpaid Rent and Penalties, Damages to the property, and the cost of ‘Legal expenses ‘. The attorney cost recovery is and was part of the *ease that I signed with my Tenant in June 2018. Mr. added $2,000 to the cost recovery, when he filed the claim on my behalf.• The very first invoice came from ***aw office came on 09/16/2019. This invoice was for $2131 (not only he has used all the money, but has charged me above the cost he told me). That was a big surprise to me. If my court costs were part of the recovery then, he should have added that total cost in the amount to be recovered. I have asked Mr. several times to provide me the receipts of the amounts and details of the charges (Specifically Telephone calls: Date, start time, ending time, so, I can actually verify his charges), but he has yet to provide me with the details. If he were to Outline his “cost structure” (how he charges for his time) on the day that gave him money by Credit card, perhaps I would not have selected him to represent me, and looked for another attorney.• All the above items are enough to prove that he has NOT FOLLOWED THE NORMS OR ETIQUETTES OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION. Mr. has not addressed any of these items in his explanation. Many of these items were addressed in my Original Complaint with Revdex.com of Central IL, but he did not provide any satisfactory responseThis part of narration is devoted to his “Excessive charges”, which is again is not following the “Norms & Etiquettes” of the LEGAL PROFESSION.• If one conducts “*** Search “on Attorney ***, his names appears along with his office address. However, there are “NO OFFICE HOURS MENTIONED”. In current Covod-19 situation, the office hours may be ‘flexible’, but in April 2019, when I first visited his office, his search showed no regular Business Hours. THIS IS NOT A SIGN OF PROFESSIONAL LEGAL OFFICE.• On April 23, 2019, I went to his office to pay the money and sign an agreement. Neither Mr., or his Secretary (Mrs. ***) were in the office. I returned to my vehicle, and called his office and left voicemail. Within Matter of minutes, Mr. called me and asked me to come to his home. In his explanation dated May 14, 2020, he writes that he lives one black away from his office. This attorney, who calls himself professional, did not have the decency to come to his office to conduct official business, asked me to come to his home, and then has the audacity to call this “Conference with Client”. No, it was not a Client conference. If his secretary was there in the office, I would have dropped my paperwork, paid the money. FIRST CALLING A CLIENT TO HIS HOME, AND THEN CALL THAT AS ‘CLIENT MEETING’ IS DEFINITELY DEFY THE NORMS OF LEGAL PROFESSION, THE MEETING WAS NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES, AND HE CHARGED ME 0.5 HR FOR THIS MEETING AT HIS HOME; IN MY OPINION, HE WAS LAZY NOT TO COME TO HIS OFFICE, AND THEN CHARGING ME IS SIMPLY HIGHWAY ROBBERY.• In his response on May 14, 2020 on page 2 (very last paragraph) Mr. writes “I do not email; I dictate in to a machine and my secretary types those e-mails and forwards them to my client or clients”. This is because Mr. is “COMPUTER ILLITERATE “. He is running business in 21st century, & using the ‘dictation Machine’, 50-year-old technology. I searched in ‘*** Search Engine” and looked for “Average Dictation speed” and the answer is “SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE CAN EASILY TRANSCRIBE 150 WORDS PER MINUTE, WHILE THE AVERAGE DOCTOR TYPES AROUND 30 WORDS PER MINUTE. DICTATION SPEED IS ABOUT 50 TO 80 WORDS PER MINUTE. (I have taken a picture of this on my smart Camera, & will be happy to share that). At the lowest speed of 50 words per minute, 36 words will require less than 1 minute. Mr. has charged me 0.2 hour for this, WHICH IS 12 TIMES MORE !!!!!! HE IS NOT READY TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT HIS INEFFICIENCY IN VARIOUS OFFICE TASKS (using Microsoft word Processor) IS PATHETIC, & HAS RESULTED IN EXTREME HIGH CHARGES FOR CLIENT.• Except for his appearances in the court house, every single item charged in the Invoices dated 09/16/2019 and 02/18/2020 is excessively charged. I have asked Mr. to give me detail explanation of each of these items, but he has not provided that. • When Mr. gave me a price of $2000, and that he will recover that money as a part of “UNPAID RENT, *ATE PAYMENT & OTHER PENALTIES, I felt that he was going to help me, knowing that I was physically living in , & it would be not easy for me to come to *** to do it on my own. However, he must have changed his thought and started charging me like “Metered Taxi” (a metaphor) and thought that he could “milk me” as much as he wants out of my case.• In my first meeting, I exclusively talked about recovering the Money for unpaid rent & other items, and I did ask him if he would be relentlessly pursuing my case. He promised me that he will, but, in reality, he would work on my case ONLY WHEN HE HAD TIME TO WORK ON MY CASE.Mr. has treated me as “SPARE TIME CLIENT” OR “SECOND CLASS CLIENT”. The following narration will help you understand why I feel this way:• Mr. worked on the “no stalking Statute” from the day I paid him the money, but then did not show the “SENSE OF URGENCY” in the money recovery process. The ‘no stalking order’ and the money recovery process are “NOT INTERDEPENDENT” (He could have simultaneously worked on both the items). The No contact order was dismissed by the court on May 7, 2019, but Mr. did not file the “money Recovery” claim till July 11, 2019. He wasted 2 months of precious time, by not pursuing both the items simultaneously, when I had furnished the DETAILS OF AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE RECOVERED FROM MY TENANT.• The COURT ordered the judgement against my Tenant on August 29, 2019; However, Mr. did not file for Wage deduction until October 9, 2019. Again, He wasted Very Precious time from August 28 till October 9, 2019. The reason he did not file the wage Deduction (Garnishment) because he waited for another $500 from me. THIS ATTITUDE ON HIS PART SHOWS VERY CLEARLY THAT HE WAS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT GETTING HIS MONEY UPFRONT THAN HIS CLIENT’S (MY) WELL BEING!!!• Mr. claims that his actions have helped my tenant to get ‘Evicted’. That is not true. My tenant had left the property abandoned, Disconnected the utilities, (legal term self-eviction), yet had not cleaned her belongings from my Home. I served her *ANDLORD’S 5 DAY EVICTION NOTICE ON APRIL 15, PASTED IT ON THE PROPERTY MAIN ENTRANCE DOOR, AND SENT HER EVICTION NOTICE BY “CERTIFIED MAIL”. My tenant moved out without any action on part of Mr..• Mr. claims that I have a relationship with Mr. ***. That is not true. I did get Mr.’s number from Mr., and Mr. did call him to pave the way for our first meeting. I asked Mr. the estimates for the repairs, inside and outside of the home, but MR. told me that he was busy with his “large Jobs” and he will have to do my work in his “spare time”. It was not what I wanted to get done, so our business relation did not go further. I did inform Mr. that I have been issued “no contact order” and I or my representatives are forbidden to enter the premises. In my initial meeting, I mentioned to Mr. how I got his contact number. At his home on April 23, 2019, Mr. volunteered that he is working with MR. about getting a new roof on his home. I never asked Mr., *** to call Mr.. He took that it upon himself to call him and charged me for two calls. Interfering between our personal business is totally UNPROFESSIONAL on part of MR.. I should not be charged for these two calls.In my opinion, these details are sufficient to prove that Mr. *** has NOT CONDUCTED HIS *AW PRACTICE FOLLOWING THE NORMS AND ETIQUETTES OF *EGAL PROFESSION. Mr. has not provided any explanation of his NOT FOLLOWING NORMS AND ETIQUETTES.Mr. in his response on May 14, 2020, writes (fourth Paragraph page 2 of 3) “Since informing Mr. ….......etc. till He has in Several of these e-mails, threatened me “. I did not at all threaten Mr., However, on February 19, I did write him that I intend to escalate the matter further to an organization titled ***. (WEBSITE: ***). My intention was to inform him that I have other avenues *eft for me to seek a ‘relief’ or re-course'. If Mr. perceives my informing him these options as threat, then it is his interpretation. I complained to Revdex.com of Central IL, and Mr. may perceive this complaint also as threat, but he is ignoring the fact that complaining to appropriate institutions are options for consumers *ike me.If there any additional information needed from me, please don’t hesitate to ask me. I am sending this as an e-mail attachment. I do not have Printer or Scanner at my home and do those functions at the *** Public *ibrary, in ***. Unfortunately, due to Covid –19 Crisis situation, *** library has been closed for Last almost two months. They plan to open the library. I do have several pages that I want to attach, but unable to do that today.I will await the next action from Revdex.com Dispute Resolution at Central *** office.Respectfully submitted,***.