James R. Schimanski, Attorney at Law

Thanks for the reviews. The low reviews and responses from the lawyer make it pretty obvious that this is someone that I will not be contacting.

UPDATE!!! This man is a LEGAL SCAM ARTIST! I have both ARAG and MetLife Lawyer Contractors. He charged my first company $25 for my case numbers without even assisting me or representing me at all. He put on there that he gave me legal advice which was $25 for tenant/landlord and then $25 for real estate assistance this man never helped me with real estate assistance at all. He told me he could not help me. The next one was tenant in law and he did not help me with that at all. he was very rude very pushy. I couldn’t explain the situation at all. He didn’t do anything. To come to find out that he charged my company $50 total and didn’t even help me. I was able to get new case Numbers through them and now I’m more educated not to give out my numbers until I’m actually sitting in front of them doing things on paper in black-and-white. I do not I repeat I do not recommend him. He’s a scam artist; he’s nickel and diming these legal company services that is paid through your employers.
Also, he will not get back in touch with you because he doesn’t have a Rep, I think that part is a blessing. The lady just answers the phone for the building and transfers you to different offices.

TERRIBLE! I just hung up with him. He is very aggressive, sounds to me overworked. I thought when I called the office, I will be having a consultation at one of his offices. I didn’t know that she actually was gonna put me through to speak to him. Once I was transferred over to him he was very aggressive, speaking very fast. I was work and was just trying to schedule an appt about my complaint, I had two. Super RUDE! So I said OK the second time I left a voicemail never got a response back. Third time I called was about 11 minutes ago, thinking I was gonna leave a voicemail for him to contact me this week at his convenience, Lord, behold he answered the phone said he was working late. Been working three hours on some paperwork or a case so I told him I thought it was an answering service or overnight representative. I was thinking I was gonna leave a message. He became very aggressive again asking what I was calling for. What was the conversation initially about because he’s been working on a lot of projects or so forth. I gave him the date that I called. He became aggressive again, and then I tried to explain to him what my situation was and I told him the reason why I didn’t have the information. The first time was because I thought I’d be scheduling a consultation with him at one of his offices so I have all my paperwork now so I could be able to discuss my case. He became very rude aggressive again fast speaking I end up telling him you know what you’re not the lawyer for me. He was very rude. Very aggressive towards me. He just has a lot on his plate and I don’t think he understands that a lot of people that have never dealt with a lawyer before our had to do a case will understand what is needed and how to come forth with conversation conversations I do not recommend him at all. I think he is terrible very rude. I would be glad to tell him that in his face. I will also be glad to sit down with him and just to tell him how a lot of people was just under stress and there’s a lot of things going on in a life and for you to come talking really fast and aggressive and what do you want and what do you need and tell me again it’s just a lot he needs to be stopped. I will be reporting him to ARAG, this is not okay!

I never really do reviews, but I felt this one needed to be done. I called to urgently speak with an attorney regarding traffic issues and he came off very rude In the beginning, but then he explained that since my domestic partner got convicted, he couldn’t really do much and so I repeated what he said back to him and he got very angry and raised his voice. Never in my life have I been talked to in such a rude manner, but my God he really needs to understand when talking to people you need to come off professional because you never know what kind of day people are having. Just downright disrespectful and rude.