Fears & Nachawati Law Firm

I was involved in a hit and run case back on August 2, 2015, I was rear/​side swiped and I was able to obtain the license plate number. I had injuries to the atlas in my neck down to the right side of my body as well as my pelvis. This caused me to be out of work for nearly a month, and I was basically bed ridden for over ²⁄₃ weeks. I chose Fears & Naschawati through my Hyatt Legal plan insurance that I had through my employer. In the beginning they advised me that there was a discount I would be receiving of about 8 percent due to me being a member of the plan.
Firstly, the case manager Jessica was pretty good with communication. She did try to keep me in on the loop most of the time, however if I needed to contact her, on occasion it did take a few calls and emails to reach her.
At any rate it took a while for the insurance company to accept fault which was pretty bizarre to me. It ended up being a Landscaping/​Company vehicle that hit me on mopac as I was merging from 360 westbound to Mopac north, after he hit me, he sped off and kept going, i sped up and caught his plate number, even had a witness with me and pictures of me attempting to take a picture. However, the last conversation I had with Jessica she informed me that the insurance company was pushing back, but that they will advise me the next steps as this may have to go to litigation.
I was okay with that… until my chiropractor called them over a month after I last spoke to Jessica, and my Doctor (which they referred me to over 2 weeks late after the accident) they informed her that they dropped my case in October.
I never received any notification of this whatsoever, not an email, not a phone call, no mail or anything of the sort. UNTIL… of course immediately after the chiropractor called.
It seems as if they hurried and sent the documents indicating the dropping of my case… over a month after the time they indicated they did.
I feel like they didn’t want to take this case to litigation due to the DISCOUNT I would have received through my legal insurance. It basically would have gone from the standard 50% to possibly 30 due to my legal aid.
These individuals did not operate professionally AT ALL. I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND THIS ATTORNEY. Of course many attorneys are out for the money, but my case clearly has sustenance. They just didn’t want to fight it, because they are greedy crooks. Stay away.

Great lawyers, great legal assistants. Fears Nachawati cares about you and their team is dedicated in helping you.

The worst! We filed Chapter 13 in 2013. Our attorney was unresponsive and pretty much confused all the time. I’m not sure if he was overworked or just didn’t care. The whole firm was fine until our retainer was paid and then we were extremely low priority. Often the only way to get a response was to contact our trustee’s office first. Every time that happened, our attorney was really not happy with us.
Problem 1: badly calculated budget (schedule I & J), resulting in a dramatic increase in our monthly payment from what he said it would be.
Problem 2: paralegal was unorganized and never returned our calls or emails and never seemed to relay our messages to the attorney. Often our attorney would forget entire conversations and ignore email requests that we sent him. We tried twice to file for permission to incur debt so we could buy a second car and they ignored them twice. We are a one car family in a commuter city. It’s been really rough.
Problem 3: check box error on a wage garnishment which caused us to unknowingly fall behind.
Problem 4: attorney never mentioned the website where we could monitor our case (
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Problem 5: after narrowly avoiding a dismissal, we re-​calculated our monthly payment (another $ 600 monthly increase)
Problem 6: no wage garnishment orders were ever sent to my payroll department for the new amount causing us to fall behind again. There is no ability to pay the trustee online. There were never any directions given to us to pay the trustee directly. And anyway, we were expecting the payment to be taken from our paycheck directly. The NDC website even said that it was.
Problem 7: Learned our case was dismissed, not from the attorney or trustee’s office, but from my credit monitoring site.
I don’t really know what the issue is — maybe he was overworked and had too many cases. Maybe he was just green and didn’t have much experience.
If you want a hands-​off attorney who doesn’t explain things well and doesn’t respond in a timely manner (or ever), these are your guys! If you like paying a few thousand dollars for representation but do all the work and research yourself, this firm will be just fine for you.
If you want a firm that walks you through the process and looks out for your best interests, I would stay far away from them.

Thank you very much. The attorneys are wonderful and knowledgable. They explain everything in plain English as opposed to «legalese» so that you know exactly what needs to happen. I will point this firm out to any and all that need legal representation.