Reeves, Kahn, Hennessy & Elkins - Portland, OR

J Michael Harris is unethical and dishonest. My ex was in the process of disposing of my property in a surprise domestic dispute while I was 3000 miles away, and I asked him if it was a crime, and he said no, he did not call the police for me nor suggest that I do the same, to stop her from doing this (it is a crime, its a felony), nor would he even file for an injunction to stop her - get this: because it would require a lawsuit; thats not a typo or exaggeration: a lawyer did nothing to stop my ex from disposing of my property, because he would have to do the job I was hiring him for, to file a lawsuit! Now how stupid am I for not hanging up the phone and calling a different lawyer? I'm dealing with my 90 yr old parents in wheelchairs in NY, my ex ends our relationship, I havent seen her in 3 months, she gets a restraining order against me, this idiot Harris is charging me for advice on the RO, witout explaining to me that if I continue to ask him question about it, he is not responsible for any wrong information because our contact doesn't mention the FAPA. I would soon find out he gave me lots and lots information on it... he's charging me for this wrong information, without adding the FAPA to our contract, while fraudulently billing it as part of the property dispute, On that, I told him the value of my property was about 20,000 dollars, but I'm all distraught from everything that was going on, I was somehow even dumber than he is, and let him convince me to sue her for only 10,000 because, I'll quote him: "you get your money quick, if we do it for more than 10k we dont get to include attorney fees, so we'll ask her to include attorney fees, and then you can write me a good review." then as embarrassing as it is for me to admit, I didnt do the math, and realize that if we sued for the 20,000, and I ended up paying him 5000, I'd still be ahead with 15,000 instead of the 10,000 that he convinced me to go with. meanwhile this whole time he's draining my retainer, so he ends up keeping the whole 5000 that i gave him, I ended up taking my ex to small claims and got the full 10,000 without Harris, which he should have advised I do from the beginning, if he was going to do whats in the best interest of his client, but instead he was stealing from his client instead, for the benefit of his firm. And note he cant sue me for slander/defamation, because thats only for when someone lies, and everything I'm saying is true