David McLeod - Gainesville, GA

BEWARE: Horrible experience with David McLeod and I would highly recommend finding a different attorney. McLeod was not a good negotiator on my behalf. He refused to follow directions and became irate when he didn't get his way. He was late with billing and allowed it to pile up over months, so it was difficult to sort through and understand. Even after getting paid tens of thousands of dollars on time, he demanded an outrageously high retainer and threatened to quit if I didn't make a payment within HOURS - even though I had always paid him in a timely fashion after being invoiced. I believe McLeod exerted this despicable duress tactic to extort a high retainer payment just before trial because he assumed I had no choice but to pay him. He seemed determined to run me through an expensive trial instead of easily completing the small remainder of the case through mediation as I repeatedly requested. McLeod quit on my case just days before the trial because I asked to give phone mediation just one more day before fully committing to trial and he refused. I felt McLeod was very unprofessional and cold. I felt he wasn't on my side and didn't care about me. I seemed he just wanted to get paid as much as he could as fast as he could. Fortunately, I found another attorney on the short notice who won my case and at a fraction of the cost. The last thing you need to happen to you while going through an already stressful case is for your attorney to not respect your wishes, shake you down for money, and/or quit on you just before a trial. Then a month later, McLeod sued me for services I told him not to perform yet. I suggest you find someone else more trustworthy, dependable, understanding, compassionate, and respectful towards their clients.