Law Office of Steven M Scully

Stay AWAY… please, save your money and do ur research, this man has more excuses then a 2^nd grader, read all the reviews before you think of meeting with him… if you want the biggest headache in the world go for it… please stay away, I believe in karma he will get what he deserves, and especially for Making people life a hell… SC$M BA@

DO NOT HIRE THIS MAN! UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! YOU WILL REGRET IT!
Summary: After agreeing to represent me, Mr Scully no showed DMV and court hearings without even telling me they were scheduled. That resulted in a bench warrant and other completely unnecessary hardships. Mr Scully has been completely unreachable through text, phone or email. I’ve had to hire a different attorney to try to clean up the mess he’s made.
Explanation: For approximately 6 weeks, Mr Scully handled my case as expected. He had court hearings and DMV rulings pushed back. He obtained a temporary Drivers License for me. As far as I knew, all legal matters were going to be pushed back until he had received all the evidence and established where to take the case from there. He would contact me and send me all needed information in regards to any appearance that would have been needed. I didn’t hear from him for a month, and it was time to make one of my last payments. I attempted to contact him with no success. I attempted to visit his office but was informed he no longer did business there. I made countless attempts to reach him via phone, email and text. I got one text back in two months. The text read he’d call me later that day. He didn’t. As I learned later, this was right around the time he had missed my DMV appointment. A couple weeks later he missed my court hearing. I had a bench warrant and my license was suspended, it will cost me thousands of dollars to attempt to reverse the negative affect Mr Scully has had
Advice: Mr Scully is a defense attorney. If you’re seeking the services of a defense attorney, you could stand to lose some of your rights, privileges and dollars. You need someone who’s trustworthy and reliable.
Mr Scully took money from me and didn’t provide me with services he agreed to provide me for. He put me in a position to go to jail. He failed me as completely as an attorney could fail a client.
STAY CLEAR OF STEVEN SCULLY.

«Eighty percent of SUCCESS is showing up.»
Mr. Scully arrived at meetings late, arrived at court late, does not respond to my emails or text messages, does not answer his phone, does not keep his words, does not send information as promised, and he did not appear at court for my last hearing.
I have hired a new attorney for my case because Mr. Scully dropped the ball on my case. I learned from the Court & Judge that Mr. Scully has been MIA from other cases as well.
(My new attorney and the entire law-​firm is responsive, prompt, helpful, resourceful, and first in line at Court hearing.)
Hire Mr. Scully if want an invisible attorney. He will certainly help you to FAIL.

I have put in for an expungment all the way in December of 2014 it is now October 2015 and there is still no progress

Hired him in late May 2015 & have not been satisfied with his work whatsoever. He didn’t show up to my court dates twice one time & I had a bench warrant set out for 20,000 because he missed one of my court dates! Communication with him his not possible! He doesn’t return phone calls, emails, or text messages! I don’t hear from him at all until I have to pay him! I’m going to report his fraud butt and not pay the remaining fees I’m suppose to owe him! Oh and what a surprise, his business number in San Jose is no longer in service! I wonder what happened?

Mr. Scully is a waste of money and time, like the other reports on Unilocal,when you first contact him he is very nice and helpful, the moment you pay him he will not call, email or anything back to you, and does not work on your case. not going to go into all the details of my case but hired him to to do a expungment and in a year he has not worked on it, takes your money and does no work. hire another attorney, he is terrable. there is a reason he has a lot of bad reviews on this site, You have been warned. Scott

This guy is a scam stay away!!! About 8 years ago I got in trouble with the law a lot mostly for drugs, 5 years ago I changed my life around completely and wanted to get everything expunged from my record so I found the Law Offices of Stephen Scully, when we met he told me it was going to be close to $ 4000 and take no longer than 3 months to complete everything. My biggest mistake was giving him the money up front but he said that that was his guidelines so I gave it to him. It has been 3 years and nothing has been done I call him and he doesn’t answer his phone I call his secretary and the stupid lady says he’ll call me back but never does he straight stole my money! I’ve just been so busy with work seeing that I hold three jobs and just haven’t had time to go to the courthouse to file a lawsuit against him! THIS GUY IS A PIECE OF SHIT who takes advantage of people trying to get their life together and people who are rehabilitated trying to make a difference in life and he goes and robs them I’ve also talked to other people who had the same experience with him. Anyone that will go to this guy is an idiot plain and simple I’m hoping I cross paths with him one day because when I do it’s not going to be a pretty sight and then I know I’ll get my money back for sure if I could give negative stars I would! stay away from this guy!

I had an absolutely harrowing experience with Mr. Scully. Please avoid him at all costs. Before hiring him, he was very prompt in answering my calls and emailing and texting me. However as soon as the money was paid in full for my DUI case, his attitude changed. He stopped answering my emails and picking up my calls. He said he had sent a notice to DMV for court hearing but I never got my temporary license in my mailbox for 3 weeks so I tried to check with him but he responded after several queries that it takes a lot of time for DMV to process. When I called up DMV I learnt that they never received a request from my lawyer. Finally tired of his not answering my questions and not following up on my case properly, I fired him. He said I’ll get my money refunded soon but he again disappeared. It’s been 3 weeks since I fired him and requested to refund my money but he hasn’t answered yet. Just goes on to reflect on his integrity and honesty. Having not worked on my case, messed up my DMV hearing, he still doesn’t want to return my hard earned money which he earned by doing absolutely nothing and just selling himself before being hired. Stay away from him. Don’t hire him if you don’t want to be scammed. The only good review of him Unilocal is of an experience prior to hiring him which undoubtedly is awesome. But after you hire him, as couple of other clients can attest, experience is harrowing. Don’t trust ratings on avvo which I did the mistake of trusting.

I contacted Mr. Steven Scully back in April of 2015 to help my daughter with an expungment case. We talked for about an hour, I briefly filled him
in on felony charge that happened over 19 years ago, but was still showing up on her record.
Mr. Sully seemed very concerned, humble, knowledgeable and wanting to help her get an expungment.
(Since that 1996 incident, my daughter has made great strides to turn her life around. She is very remorseful about the what happened & things she could have done to prevent it all. Currently she’s a wife & mother of 4; she went back to school & got her BA degree social services/​counseling; she’s a youth teacher/​counselor & praise leader at our church; Also
teaches at her younger daughter’s school part time).
Anyway, I gave Mr. Scully my daughter’s information.
And they were communicationing via internet, texting & by telephone.
But Mr. Scully was telling my daugther things that he wasnt doing — like he tokdhe had filed court papers for her expungment & told her that she had a court date on May 20^th) this was on May 2^nd. (According to the women at the court– there is court no papers filed with her name & there were never any court dates setup for her)!
Since May 2^nd Mr. Scully will not answer his telephone (the woman would say «he’s unavailable» or «out of the office»). Nor is Mr. Scully responding to any of my daughter’s messages or texts. (I have left a text/​telephone messages since finding out about this…& he has yet to respond back to me)!
But he HAS been debting her bank account each month!
So why is he not responding?
Is he on:
*Vacationing/​of the country
*Retired/​No longer practicing law
*Health Issues/​Terminally Ill
*No longer in San Jose address/​Moved to another law firm
*Or Deceased!
Mr. Scully can you please return telephone messages & calls.
Signed disappointed Virginia

I was looking for a legal advice online and left my phone number on a legal site to see if anyone would call. I received few calls from few attorneys trying to set an appointment in person and getting me into their offices. Steven called and he listen to my question over the phone and explained my options over the phone without any expectations.
He also told me he will look into the options and do some research since my case had mix issues with criminal and immigration. He kept his word and called me back after his research and gave his opinion and my options again without any obligations…
We had 3 phone conservation in the past 2 weeks and altogether maybe close to an hour or maybe more!
I had other attorneys that wanted to charge $ 150 for 20 – 30 min over the phone consultations and they would not even reply to my email.
Steven is very knowledgeable and humble and is there to HELP! I hope more attorneys would have his qualities and not just after money for every min of their time.

I started my process of expungement for a prior case on 12÷17÷14
I have only received 5 short forms of communication from him in regards to my case via email.
I had to keep following up with him and sometimes I get no response at all.
Horrible communication. I don’t feel confident that my case is being serviced and the expungement proceedings probably haven’t even started. I am extremely frustrated and feel I have been ripped off. I am still waiting to hear about my case but I will be lucky of anything actually happens for my case. I think stay clear of this law office and I am considering reporting this business to the better business bureau.