I was told to contact a lawyer per our local county clerk’s office, so I called Mr. Winchell and left a message with his secretary. I was not looking for any free advice. I have a situation I need to resolve and if f I need to hire a lawyer, then I absolutely will hire a lawyer. When he called me back, I got about 10 words out before he cut me off and started asking questions. I was able to get about 10 more words out before he cut me off again. He had no interest in listening to what I was trying to tell him. He even at one point made a rude comment about me trying to get free legal advice as if that was justifying him being rude to me. I told him that he seemed to be annoyed that I was trying to explain the situation and asked if he’d listen to me. I was finally able to get about 20 seconds worth of words out without being interrupted. He told me to contact our local county clerk’s office for help. As I was explaining to him that I had and they told me that they couldn’t help and that they said I needed to contact a lawyer he started talking over me, he raised his voice at me, started talking very fast and started going on about calling a different lawyer then if I didn’t agree with him. From the very start of the call he had no interest in hearing what I had to say, and he was very rude. I don’t think I’ve ever spoke with someone so rude. I’m not sure why he even bothered to call me back if he had no interest in listening to what I needed help with. I also need help with setting up a power of attorney, which, again, I absolutely expect to pay for, but we never got to discuss that because he was so rude to begin with. When he was raising his voice at me and talking fast about finding another lawyer, I just thanked him for his time and hung up.

Great guy, return calls in a timely manner.

James Winchell is a wonderful attorney. He is intelligent, efficient, effective, thorough and gets things done. I would highly recommend.