Pointts

Not that I expect a lawyer to actually tell the truth, but when they’re dealing with a client I was under the impression that since I had to be truthful they would return the courtesy. Such is not the case.
There is an abundance of choice when it comes to finding someone who can deal with a ticket/​fine that has being written up for something that everyone else is still doing as you stand on the side of the road waiting for the officer to be finished with you. I chose POINTTS simply because it was the first name to pop into my head. I was assigned to RICHARD CLARKE PARALEGAL.
Knowing that insurance companies no longer just look to see how many points you have against you, but also if you have been given any tickets as a good enough reason to hike up your premiums, I was keen on making this ticket just go away. RICHARD CLARKE told me his plan was to delay and reschedule a few times before going to court.
The theory here (which has been working quite successfully in the past by a couple work associates) is that after 2 changes of court dates the officer is highly unlikely to be able to show up for a 3^rd rescheduled court date. No officer in court, no more ticket problem.
I paid my $ 395.50 comfortable with the fact that here was someone who had the same plan I did and I wouldn’t have to take time off work to do it.
Well come court time RICHARD CLARKE waltzes in and does a plea deal where I don’t get any points taken off my license and a reduced fine for some other offense.
This is where I must inform those who have not been in a ticket situation before that there is an option on certain tickets (like the one I had) where you can have a first attendance meeting with the prosecutor. If you don’t act like an asshole or come across like you’re lying through your teeth, and especially if this is your fist and only offense (like it was for me) — they drop the points (over 95% of the time) and reduces the fine (over 95% of the time).
So Richard had my fine $ 325.00 reduced to $ 80.00.
Simple math time. My $ 325 fine cost me $ 475.50 (lawyer fee + new fine amount) by using Pointts.
Sure I didn’t have to miss a day of work to take care of this myself, and some would argue in that case I pretty much break even (adding the reduced cost of the fine to what I would have lost by not working a day), but I hold issue with the fact I was lied to by my legal representative so he could get my money for this simple procedure of a job.
If you don’t mind giving your money to some lying lawyer then go ahead and use POINTTS. If you would rather take your chances on yourself, or if you have some friends who can go to court for you to get your date rescheduled (twice) then do that. If you are dead set on having a lawyer just handle the whole thing for you then I suggest trying a different organization. Preferably one that doesn’t outright lie to their prospective clients.
A tall order I know when dealing with lawyers, still rumour has it there are some out there with integrity. Do pass on their name if you find one.
As you maybe can tell it’s the lying part by RICHARD CLARKE PARALEGAL that’s really pissed me off about this whole thing, as well as the fact that he didn’t have the courtesy/​guts/​integrity to respond to my follow up email after the verdict was handed down to me.

what a waste of money. All they did was go to court and accept the reduced fine… anyone can do this… I could have easily done this and had asked them in advance if this is what they would do. Waste of $ 300.