Fessler, Schneider & Grimme

I hired this firm about 7 years ago. I was charged with Wanton Endangerment. I had an altercation with neighbors in an apartment above mine because they were partying very loudly all night and I asked them several times to quiet down. Finally on the last time I went outside and yelled up at their apartment to quiet down at around 0330 in the morning, they came outside yelling down at me and then came running down the stairs saying they were going to kill me so I ran into my apartment and they were right behind me and came into my apartment so I grabbed my pistol from my kitchen and told them to get out of my apartment, at which time my roommate called the police.
(Let me be clear here, the smart thing to have done would have been to call the police to begin with. I understand that I was foolish that evening.)
Schneider suggested that we just plea to a lesser charge, a disorderly conduct charge, and not go to trial. Herein lies the problem with our legal system I suppose. This charge has caused me many thousands of dollars in immigration lawyers, not to mention all of the time I have wasted because we did not go to trial. I suppose it was evident that I did not have the money to go to trial at the time so I agreed to just accept the disorderly conduct charge.
That aside, when it came time for me to be eligible to expunge my charge, Tim would not respond back to me either via email or phone. I left a message with his assistant and sent many emails.
I’m not sure why he did not respond to my emails or phone call so that I could get the charge expunged. I’m not sure what benefit there could possibly be for an attorney to not have one of their client’s charges expunged, so I don’t think it was malicious, but it was aggravating and an email from him stating, «I’m too busy to take your case,» would have been better than nothing.
So I’m giving 2 stars instead of 1 because at first he at least did communicate with me in a professional manner. However, in hindsight I think that the advice and course of action that we took created many problems for me and cost my family an additional $ 10,000 not to mention the time and opportunity cost of not being able to work in another country for years. Then not responding to me when it was time for expungement was really unprofessional.
I hired another attorney in Campbell County and got the charge expunged relatively pain free.
My advice, if you know that you have a high chance of being found not guilty, fight the charge. Do not let your attorney tell you to just accept a lesser charge because it’s better than being found guilty for what you’ve been charged with. Though there will be less pain on the front end, you will definitely pay for it 10 fold in the long run if you accept the lesser charge.

David Fessler is an extremely passionate, experienced, and highly knowledgeable attorney who is the first person I contact with any legal queries and the first person I recommend to my friends and family for legal help.

I have known Dave Fessler for about 10 years, he is my go-​to guy for legal help.
He is a great resource professionally and personally. Linda Mildon