Askey David H Atty

By far the worst experience I’ve ever had with a working professional.
My husband and I met with Mr. Askey to retain him for a decently simple legal matter. I saw red flags from the beginning.
1. When I dropped off documents he did not give me a call or let me know that he’d received them. (these are private and confidential docs)
2. During our first meeting he did not provide us with an email/​business card and we had no additional info but his office phone to contact him.
3. After our initial appointment he did not contact me for 4 weeks and I was the one that followed up.
4. When I called and inquired about a letter he promised to send he sounded like he had no idea what I was talking about and said «yeah, I could do that.»
5. He informed me he was going on vacation and would be back after a certain date and «nothing was going to get done until then.»
6. He STILL did not contact me after vacation and I again had to call him.
7. He promised me the papers would be done on a certain day but called me during the weekend to say that it was «very confusing» and it was going to take longer and he’d have it ready by Monday.
8. He called me Monday only to let me know that he was again leaving town and it would not make sense for me to come in to sign the papers because he wouldn’t be able to file them anyway.
IT HAD BEEN 8 WEEKS SINCE OUR FIRST APPOINTMENT
My husband and I show up at his office yesterday and there were 3 – 4 errors on each page. He misspelled 3 out of 4 names and used different misspelling on each page. Imagine a stack of legal documents with 3 out of 4 names spelled wrong. When I asked whether he received my legal documents (birth certificates, marriage certificates, SSN, Court docs) he just brushed me off and insisted multiple times that we must have told him the names wrong. «Yeah I got them, but I go by my notes.» He even paused to review his notes to attempt to prove that somehow it must have been us… but I’m guessing he couldn’t read that either. We sat in his office for 30 minutes listening to a ticking clock as he began covering each misspelling with white out! We were only ¹⁄₃ of the way through almost 30 minutes in. I’m not exaggerating when I say 50%- 75% of what he populated on the forms were wrong. On top of that the papers were all wrinkled and some of the pages were fading like the printer ran out of toner. (It looks like he filled out all the forms on a type writer which I saw in the corner of his office but thought was a decoration) The worst part was when he asked us to start signing the papers with 3, 4, 5, 6 spots whitted out. This is so unethical and I asked for the spots to be filled out before I sign but was told that «it would take too much time to redo and we should make another appointment.» We teach our children that your signatures mean something and you should read everything and agree before putting your name down. I don’t know why this man is in practice.
Mr. Askey was rude, unprofessional and acted like all his errors were minimal or our fault. He wasted 8 weeks of my time and time off work for both my husband and I. Do yourself a favor and retain another lawyer and run as far away from here as possible!!!