Hamner Brian A Attorney at Law

Atty Brian Hamner, is unfair, has no since of ethical integrity. If you pay him enough he will side with you and not give a fair decision. Appears he is biased and again favors the one that is paying him. Does not tell you his thoughts, nor investigates thoroughly, he appears to be only driven by monetary gain, willing to risk legal best practices. I have never given a review, I try to put myself in their place, but I want people to be aware of the treatment I recieved. When I at my lowest in my life loosing my father, lost my job, getting out of a sexual, violent abused relationship this attorney didnt even bother to hold up to his word. He said he was going to visit me with my daughter and he never did, made a decision with out investigating throughly. Totally lost the ethical integrity of being a fair attorney.

If I could give zero stars I would. This man is a thief and had no idea what he is doing. He lost my children to my husband who was a deadbeat dad, HE NEVER EVEN PLEAD CUSTODY FOR MY CHILDREN when I asked him to represent my divorce. He allowed the other lawyer to draw up the divorce paperwork (which made me lose my children, which I didn’t see for almost 5 years) even though I was the petitioner. In the end he ended up receiving a reprimand from the State Bar, which had several other client complaints listed on the reprimand. DO NOT give this man your money!!! You will get nothing in return (no texts, no emails) and will end up devastated.

If I could give less than 1 star, I would. Mr. Hamner was referred to me by a very good friend when my 14 year old daughter decided she wanted to move to her dad’s after summer visitation. When I contacted Mr. Hamner he was kind, compassionate, and very willing to talk with me for hours about my case, at least until I actually paid him. The moment I handed over the downpayment of $ 2000, everything changed. All of a sudden I could never get Mr. Hamner on the phone. He would sometimes respond to a text but I did not manage to have another actual conversation with him until the day before I was scheduled to appear in court. My original court date was rescheduled for the Friday before school was to start. Mr. Hamner knew that there was a very slim chance our case would actually be heard because there would be dozens upon dozens of cases on the docket that day and it would be impossible to hear them all. But he took my money anyway, knowing that I had no chance at all of bringing my daughter home. By the time I had a conversation with Mr. Hamner I was an emotional wreck. I had no idea what to expect in court the next day, I had no idea if I could have my 13 year old daughter talk to the judge or if she should even come with me. I had no idea if I should have witnesses and if so who, or if I could bring letters from friends and family members attesting to my abilities as a parent. I knew nothing about the process or what may or may not take place. As Mr. Hamner surely expected, our case would not be heard that next day. I was able to see my daughter for a few hours and again the next Sunday for the day, and was given standard visitation while the case was waiting to be heard. My daughter has not once come for visitation and Mr. Hamner has done nothing whatsoever to help me enforce it. He has not even bothered to return my phone calls when I have left sobbing messages. Not even when it was my birthday and I being denied access to my daughter for no reason. I did nothing wrong as a parent at all. My daughter was bought, promised the world, if she would live with her dad. She lied to a judge in order to get to stay and the judge also suspended my child support even though I still had another child at home with the same father. My daughter was stolen from me and a judge who is friends with my ex husband’s employer signed off on the Temp Orders and I have still not had my day in court. And Mr. Hamner has done not one single thing to help me.
A week ago I fired Mr. Hamner and I demanded my $ 2000 downpayment back so that I could hire another attorney. One who would actually work for me. After several days of calling his office non-​stop I finally received a text saying that the check was sent out to me and would arrive the following day. Three days later I received it, deposited it, and paid another attny to represent me. The next day I went to the grocery store and my card was declined. It seems my account was a negative $ 1300 because Mr. Hamner’s check bounced. That was 2 days ago and I have yet to receive payment for the NSF check. I have no access to money at all, and a daughter living with me to support. My paycheck was automatically deposited into my account today, which I can not access because my account is in the negative. Not only did Mr. Hamner take my money knowing I had no chance at all of getting my daughter back, he also gave me false hope, lied to me repeatedly, and now has put me in a very vulnerable and difficult position financially. Additonally, Mr. Hamner was supposed to be handling obtaining an Occupational License for me as my license was suspended at the time and I could not appear in court to attempt to bring my daughter home with a suspended license. The day of court he assured me that it was taken care of and that I was legal to drive, and he also told the opposing attorney the same thing. This was an outright lie. When I asked for copies of the documents that he filed so that I could have them with me, he claimed he had left them in his office. When I called his office the next week and requested copies of these documents, my requests were ignored. He had done nothing at all to secure an ODL for me, in fact, I have secured one for myself since and confirmed that no documents were ever filed by him with regard to the ODL.
I am a single mother, a Certified Youth Life Coach and Yoga Instructor with a specialty in child & family yoga. This equates to… I barely scrape by financially. I had to borrow $ 2000 to pay Mr. Hamner, but I was desperate not to lose my daughter, so I humbled myself and I asked for help. The day I went to court Mr. Hamner had 14 other cases on the docket. That’s a lot of desperate people looking for hope. I pray their experience was better than mine.