Gilbert Law Firm, PLLC David P. Gilbert Beware of this misleading and lying inexperienced attorney... Internet

4th of Oct, 2011 by User221761

I retained Atty Gilbert in the middle of the month of April 2011 for 4 different charges, 2 of which were traffic related in order to initiate the stop. Right from day 1 he stated that he would file a series of different motions to get these charges dismissed. He never filed a motion until after 3 different appearances in court and then it was only 1 motion and at that point in time it was more out of desperation than anything else. It was done at the last minute after a pre-trial hearing date had already been set. Atty Gilbert let the prosecuting atty believe that he wasn't going to file any motions so that the prosecuting atty was throwing the book at me because he wasn't going to get any resistance. Atty Gilbert did a poor job at the Administrative Review Hearing and when that went sour he didn't challenge those findings and everything went south from that point on in his representation of my case. Atty Gilbert has admitted to me on several occasions that this was all new for him and then volunteered that he was going to different students that he'd gone to school with, prosecuting atty's that he'd worked with before in other cases, and even police officers for advice on how to handle my case and the charges against me. (This was only after he'd received over a thousand dollars of the $2500 he was going to charge me) I gave him $500 the first day we spoke and he sounded promising but it was shortly after that, and before he'd volunteered that this was new to him, that I started to get some very uneasy feelings about this atty and his ability to represent me as well as his ability to maintain my freedom from incarceration. Over the course of approximately the next 3 months I'd given this atty over $1300 of my money and I was collecting unemployment so money was hard to come by. In that 3 months the only thing he did was appear in court for 3 different hearings and attend the Administrative Review Hearing and then complained that I wasn't paying him, yet his website then(http://www.drivenlegal.com/) AND now new website (http://www.dgilbertlaw.com/), state that he accepts payment plans. At that point I'd let him know that he had done nothing as far as any of the motions that we'd discussed on the initial day that I sat in his office and wrote him a check for $500 and that I felt very uneasy about giving him anymore money until I saw more action out of him like he said he was going to do. It still wasn't until after two more appearances in court that he came up with a motion to suppress evidence (which is one of the many that we'd talked about on that initial day) which at this late point in the game was a last ditch effort. I was furious with him and extremely nervous about standing next to him in court while he presented it to the judge and I told him so. I was so scared that I went and retained another atty. with a boat load more experience than this rookie atty had and that cost me a LOT of money and this new atty wasn't doing any payment plans this late in the game so I had to scramble to get the funds together. Atty Gilbert misrepresented himself to me as he does on his websites. It wasn't until today that I noticed that he had a new website and this one actually tells when he graduated from Stetson Law - 2010, had I known that initially I would have NEVER given this atty a dime and would've found someone else to represent me. I will be writing to the FL Bar Association about this atty's tactics and behavior as well as scam-report - I got scammed by this atty and because Gilbert took his sweet time doing everything my freedom is now in jeopardy and my new atty has very little time, if any at all, to turn things around for me. I am disgusted with atty Gilbert as I had to tell him several things to do in my case, which he never did, but stated to me that I "should be an atty". He now has a new website with his picture on it that my money obviously paid for because he didn't spend my money on fighting my case, representing me, or to "expose weaknesses in the prosecutor's case"(which comes right off of his new website).

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