Paul Smith is a not an attorney I would recommend at all after spending $4500 on him for $200/hr. He is not worth the fee he charges hourly and you will be left wondering how he burns through you money so fast when it takes him sometime 1 hour he will charge you to read 1 email. His experience is lacking a lot and this will reflect how he represents you and how he decides to move forward (or backwards) with your case in family law. I can not speak to Paul as a criminal defense attorney but if he puts as much effort into that as he does family law you have wasted your money with this attorney. Paul also charged me on multiple occasions when he called the wrong phone number to contact me at, calling my Wife's number instead of my own and then giving me the same excuse each time, 3+ times, that "it's just the first number I see when I pull up/out your file" and I asked him repeatedly to change that so it would not be a continued problem however it was. In my opinion Paul was a big waste of money burning through my $4500 in just 1 1/2 to 2 months times with only stepping into court once for me in December 2016 for a simple status hearing. There were documents that need to be filed that I had to bring up to Paul myself instead of him bringing them up to me so we can request certain things. This list just goes on and on with how unprofessional and inexperienced Paul is as an attorney. I hired Paul to be my Family Law attorney that involved my Son that I am the Non-Custodial parent to. Paul will not make much of an effort it seems for client that are non-custodial parents therefore it would be more damaging than helpful to hire him for such. My final opinion on the matter is Paul works for the Law office of Earl McCoy and if Mr. McCoy is willing to hire such help then I would not expect much more from his performance either. Please don't waste your money that you want to put into fighting for your child(ren) on an inexperienced and poor performing attorney for $200/hr like Paul Smith or an attorney that is desperate enough to hire such an attorney to fill a slot like Earl McCoy for $250/hr. My case so far is going to be turning out more then likely just the way it would have if I had not spent $4500 for legal help (and that is a good direction it is turning out) in which I did not receive much at all and it was a lot of mistakes in the process, neglect, poor judgement and just overall unprofessional. I would not recommend this Law to anyone who wants true legal help because I did not feel like I got even minorly adequate representation for what I paid. Paul abandon me in the end and I believe it is due to me pushing him to be the attorney I hired him to be but instead did not want to do his job well enough. The end result would have been the same though as my intentions where to fire Paul for his horrible services.

Earl McCoy is a terrible attorney. I did not appoint him myself rather against him in the court room. I, the plaintiff, could not afford a lawyer but still won the case against my defendant because he was not prepared at all. The defendant had no idea what was going on and Earl was oblivious to anything I was saying. Stay away from this guy, he's in it for the money.