Robert N. Hamilton - St. Louis, MO

A gentleman’s agreement, those were your words Bob. Please read. This attorney and his practice are operating cash generating business. They are not in business of help children and actually care about the difference between the parents. His law firm and gal services are nothing more than glorified extortionist. And I’m here to tell you the story I have the proof and evidence Last December I was in the court room with Mr. Hamilton, who after months of us asking for a bill and to discuss the bill for his services to be paid. He dodged our phone calls and emails for two months. He was our kids GAL from July until December and he never met with our kids except for on their initial meeting and he met with me and my ex one time and he tried to bill us $10,000 for his services. I think we ended up paying $6000 total after me and Bob Hamilton made a gentleman‘s agreement in the very same courtroom that our custody paperwork was signed in. The agreement was that since he did not want to go over his bill and services with us that I was not going to pay anymore than what we have already paid which was a total of $6000 then he went behind my back to ask my ex-wife again got another thousand dollars from her to be tacked on to our custody agreement with the courts. Fast forward to three months later. Now he has secretly gone around and cheated the system and has started garnishing my exes wages, all in an attempt to be paid for services that he did not even do. He has since gone against his gentleman agreement. Will be taking steps forward to make sure that Mr. Hamilton and his GAL services or attorney service’s in this state. Mr. Hamilton is in the cash generating business. He literally only practices law the only two sectors which are not closely monitored in attempt to make as much money for himself and destroy as many peoples lives by billing extra hours and services. I know this because then when you ask your attorney about the GAL fees, they tell you that the GAL will file a motion to strike, Pleadings, which they use to intimidate families in order to get their fees paid. Mr. Hamilton did file a motion of staggered pleadings, and after talking to him in the courtroom the day of our hearing we made a gentleman agreement because he knew his goose was cooked, and I shook on it. All Mr. Hamilton is after is making as much money from unsuspecting families by By becoming a GAL and finding the loopholes in the system and extorting them to the greatest level.

Please help me, help you by taking this review very seriously....I would give Bob negative stars if I could. I retained Bob’s services and he ended up costing me thousands upon thousands of dollars due to his negligence (this was in addition to paying him hourly for his lackluster services, to put it mildly). The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel of MO investigated Bob due to complaints I lodged against him. It is my understanding that the OCDC rejects a very high percentage of complaints that come across their desks, but they did not reject mine, involving Bob. He didn’t make just a single mistake or provide some questionable service, he made several huge costly errors on my case. Only when I confronted Bob about his series of negligent actions and breach of duties, did he decide that we "weren’t a good fit"? A respectable lawyer would have dealt with the problems head-on, but Bob denied, lied, and made excuses for himself.  Not respectable behavior, in my opinion.  I was told by other lawyers (that I exposed Bob's negligence to and asked for their opinions regarding said negligence) that Bob would "settle" before I sued him for malpractice. That's what they would have done anyway.  When I confronted Bob about his errors, he did not do what other attorneys told me he would/should do, but instead, he became defensive (he was caught, multiple times for different reasons).  Therefore, Bob got reported to the OCDC. At one point, Bob's firm made a very careless mistake in sending me another client's emails that had the same first name as mine (Jill).  After that error, I had correspondence between her and my lawyer. That error didn't cost me financially (for once) but that is so embarrassing for the other Jill. I’m not saying that Bob is a bad guy but I do feel that Bob is a really, really incompetent attorney. I believe that Bob's peers would defend Bob (when he asks them to), but most people want to keep their skeletons in their closets. I doubt Bob is going around notifying his peers of his colossal screw ups and being investigated by the OCDC. I reviewed my current attorney 13 months ago on AVVO. He fights for you. He doesn’t hand your case off to minions. He’s aware, he’s present, he’s smart, he's professional, he's not off vacationing prior to important court dates and being severly underprepared but showing up anyway, he's detail-oriented, he's not corrupt, he loves his job, he cares, he doesn't blindly agree to opposing counsel's calculations, he's honest, he's a bulldog, he's proactive, not just reactive, and he doesn't end up costing you over 50 + grand due to negligence. There is absolutely no comparison between my current lawyer and Bob Hamilton. Hiring a lawyer is never fun and with so many choices, please take your hard-earned money elsewhere. I could have done a better job representing myself. I feel that Bob is tired of his profession in his latter years and is simply collecting client’s checks but putting in no real effort. He makes things worse. Much, much worse.  This, coming from a person that understands humans are not perfect and we all make mistakes.  That is not what happened in my dealings with Bob Hamilton.  This goes much, much deeper.