Lennon, Camak & Bertics, PLLC

Mr. Michael Bertics also assisted my neighbor with the initial filing for SS, and she was approved.

I would like to preface this review by stating that I only worked with George W. Lennon. You might have a better experience with his two partners than I did with him.
When things in my personal workers comp case became complicated, my husband and I decided to meet with two lawyers. We would choose the lawyer who seemed like the best fit. We moved forward and made an appointment for a free consultation with both lawyers. I had spoken on the phone with Lennon briefly a few months back and had received good advice from him so he was the first lawyer we talked to.
When we checked in, I double checked with Lennon’s secretary that it was a free consultation. She smiled and reassured me that it was.
We were shown to a room with a TV and a 20 minute video of Lennon describing basic workers compensation terminology was shown. Boring, but helpful. He came in shortly thereafter with a new paralegal. He had kept the notes he took from the initial phone call he took from me a few months back. Impressive. He summed up what we discussed and asked some questions.
He said I had a nightmare case that lawyers hate trying because it’s so hard to win. I had the feeling he was trying to get rid of us because he wasn’t interested in becoming my lawyer. That’s why it was so confusing when he slid me a piece of paper and said «well, we’re not going to do anything with your case right now, we’ll just follow it. This is so we can access your medical records if we need to.» Okay, I thought, well-​if we sign with this guy, he will need it, so I went ahead and signed it. He then slid me another piece of paper and said, we’ll need this too. I didn’t understand what was happening. I shouldn’t have signed it but I did. My husband started to catch on to Lennon’s slick used car salesman tricks and brought it all to an end. He explained how we were meeting one other lawyer the next day and were going to decide between them-​that, in essence, I wasn’t ready to decide who my lawyer was yet.
SCREECH. This is where Lennon becomes Mr. Hyde.
He goes off on a tirade. He becomes the nastiest man I have ever seen in a professional setting. EVER. He said that if we wanted to meet with another lawyer that we should just go ahead and go with them because all we had done was waste his time. He said as a lawyer, time was his most precious commodity and we had just cost him a lot of money he couldn’t get back. He started angrily questioning us: «Who do you think pays for the lights?» «Who pays for the staff?» «Who pays for this nice office?» among other things. I told him gently that we were under the impression this was a free consultation. He went on to talk about how he had spent over an hour of his time with me, advising me, helping me and all I had done was cost him money. He told us not to bother letting him know who we decided on because it would be best if we just went with the other lawyer. He gave us our papers back and stomped out of the room with his paralegal (who looked like she wanted to jump out the window) muttering, «There goes another handout!»
My husband and I were in complete shock. After all, Lennon was in charge. He didn’t have to advertise free consultations if he actually wanted to be paid for his time-​and we would have been glad to pay a nominal fee. He didn’t have to talk to me both on the phone and in person. He was also in charge of how long he spent with me. He could have kept it to 10 minutes. I’m not sure how he thought acting like an angry child would help his business but it didn’t. Whatever you do, do NOT hire this man. The sad thing was, we were actually leaning towards Lennon becoming our lawyer. I was afraid we weren’t going to be able to get out of it-​since the second piece of paper was actually a contract hiring him as my lawyer. I never wanted to get away from someone so quickly in my life. Thankfully the papers were disposed of and I never have to see that horrible man again.