I hired Claude D. Boone of Mobile, ALabama, in October of 2008 to represent me in my divorce. He charged me $2500 up front. My court date for the divorce was six months later. I showed up for court and after waiting for Claude for an hour, I finally called his office and his secretary said my court date was rescheduled and no one had called me.

Upon my next visit to his office I informed him of this and he laughed it off and tried to say that they called me and informed me of the rescheduling. They did not. He had six months to prepare for my case and request discoveries from my husband and he would wait until two weeks before the court dates and then inform me he needed to hire experts and continue the case once again. He obtained two continuances that lasted six months each, and asked me to pay a $3500 retainer for an expert accountant. Then after opposing counsil got a third continuance in our case I was livid. Claude's secretaries were rude and short with me over the phone. He would not return my calls and tell me what was going on with my case. He was using up all of my retainer and had not gotten what we needed for our case. When he finally returned my phone call in February of 2010, I told him how rude his office staff was and that he was unreachable. He didn't like hearing the truth and two days after our conversation I received a sketchy, uninformative bill for over $200 as he padded my account and used up all of my retainer.

I hired a new attorney and wrote a letter firing Claude and requested my file and my $3500 retainer for the expert accountant I had given him. He then sent me a letter stating that he would give me my file once I paid my balance and that I would have to pay.30 a page for copies of any documents he had previously given me.

The law states he cannot charge me for my file, especially documents he acquired from opposing counsil. He was just jerking me around. Needless to say, I didn't get my file.

Stay away from this guy. He is rude, arrogant and only wants your money. He has no regard for the value of your time and his office staff is equally rude and unprofessional.