I met with Katrina A. Clarkson of Legal Helpers on 10/4/08. After speaking with her I gave her a $100.00 retainer, copies of tax returns and bills. On 10/7/08 I decided against working with this firm and had my mother e-mail Ms. Clarkson regarding the return of the retainer and documents. Three (3) e-mails have been sent with my phone numbers asking for a return of the documents and retainer. To date (10/10/08), there has been no response. Calls have been made to their office only to be put on hold up to 20 minutes (had to hang up). I now realize that this company is a rip-off praying on people in financial trouble. They take whatever money they can; they will not do anything until paid in full; therefore, they have not really done any work for you and there should be no reason for them to fail to give a refund or even respond to potential customers when they attempt to contact them.
We also hired these people in Phila, we gave them over $1K, nothing was ever done, my credit is ruined even further, when I demanded a refund, I was given such a run around and told they used everything to make arrangements with my creditors, well they lied, they did not and we are out the money and even further in the toilet with a fake case #, can not even hire a new bankruptcy attorney
Can we file a civil law suit against these people and get our money back? How do we do that?