Virginia Beach Law Group

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So... not a client? Yes, we are very conservative here. We find that not breaking the law and not flaunting our unlawful act when we do it, paying our taxes, and not participating in fraud, and owning the notion that the number one person in charge of our individual best interest is us individually, are useful attributes. <br><br>Bless your heart, and good luck in your future endeavors.<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>1.21.2026: We’ve been chatting among ourselves about you and your Google review about us, and thought we’d take the opportunity you’ve given us to expand this discussion.<br><br>Most laypersons don’t think about it, but an attorney-client relationship arises when a client retains a lawyer. That relationship has personal attributes, and not all clients and attorneys are a good fit for each other. Bias has lots to do with that and we know it. We prefer to identify unworkable personal chemistry early on, and if people can perceive that we’re not the right law firm for them and self-deter, so much the better. <br><br>Professionally, we live in a world of three interlocking realities:<br>- The facts of client’s case.<br>- Statute – the applicable laws created by our legislature.<br>- Black letter law – opinions from the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court of Virginia. <br><br>We don’t have time or patience for prospective clients who think that they can wish away or ignore the facts, or statute, or black letter law, or think that defiance is a useful counter to reality. We’re unwilling to expend our time and resources catering to that attitude. Our experience is that people who reject reality are unlikely to follow the advice of counsel, and that leads to bad results in their case and frankly leaves us frustrated. Therefore, we elect to sever or avoid toxic attorney-client relationships. Yes, sometimes we fire clients. We prefer to not have them retain us in the first place.<br><br>We live in this world, and are not shy about what we think about headlines (and news that may not hit the headlines, too). Our social media persona and commentary reflect our reality-based outlook. We have clients who tell us they saw and were attracted to us specifically because of our social media commentary, including us responding to a one-star Google review. Your one-star review confirms that we deflect clients who would not be a good fit with us. We thank you for that. And a one-star review from someone who has never been a client and obviously never will just gives us another chance to market our reality-based approach to the practice of law. We thank you for that, too.<br><br>We wish you well.<br><br><br>

We promptly sent you a bank draft (a paper check) and you cashed it December 8, 2025.

Dear Mr. Gibbs: We're always rueful if we disappoint a client. The complexity of your situation, confirmed in our most recent telephone consultation, called for a current owner title search of the land records. You have sent us multiple different documents that did or could have conveyed real property to someone else or encumbered real property owned by you - all of which would help define what we could or would do for you. When asked about the status of those documents, all you could say was "they were illegal." Well no, a promissory note is not "illegal." A deed is not "illegal." A tenant being in default of a lease agreement for not paying rent is not "illegal." A written lease-to-own agreement is not "illegal." You chanting "illegal" does not resolve the issue about status of title in your real property. A reasonable and prudent next step would be to pull a title search to ensure none of these documents you shared actually got recorded in the courthouse land records. You made it clear that you were in Florida and not in a position to do that yourself. We quoted what it would cost us to have a title searcher go pull those records (or confirm that no such records existed). We honored your request to not do so and to refund your retainer. We have complied. <br><br>UPDATE to your UPDATE: you continually used the word "illegal" regarding the deed, promissory note, etc. Second, we invited you to go to the courthouse to retrieve whatever had been recorded the land records to save the cost of us doing it. You gave a sob story about this and that, among which was that you were in Florida and could not go the courthouse here.

Updated 12.22.2025: Dear Mr. Tucker: You requested services from a tradesman who got paid at closing of the real estate he'd worked on for you. You had a consultation because you wanted to sue the tradesman to "get your money back." <br><br>No. That is not a cause of action. The more you repeated your quest to sue to recover money that you had owed in the first place, the more your attorney told you no.<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Dear Mr. Tucker: we're sorry to have disappointed you. Please keep in mind that we earn a living through having people hire us to pursue justice in court. We want your business, but we're up-front with prospective clients who don't have a solid case. <br><br>Unfortunately, on the facts you presented, meeting with an attorney is not a substitute for paying your bills. You related that you had a house for sale and as part of preparing for the conveyance you needed to have moisture control performed under the house. A pest control company did the work. <br><br>Customarily, a tradesman who works on a dwelling subject to a sale contract will submit his bill to the Buyer's settlement officer, not directly to the Seller (you). That sale did not close. As a consequence of not closing, the pest control company did not get paid by Buyer's settlement officer. You stated that you knew the tradesman did the work and you knew that you had not paid the tradesman. You then entered into a different agreement to sell the dwelling. Pursuant to that second sale, Buyer's title search revealed that Pest Control Company had filed a mechanic's lien - because they'd not been paid. At the closing where you successfully sold the property, Pest Control Company's invoice was paid.<br><br>You wanted to sue the Pest Control Company to "get your money back." <br><br>There is no way to sugar-coat the answer: On those facts? No. <br><br>You have no cause of action against a tradesman who was retained to perform work on your house, did the work, and then had to resort to a mechanic's lien in order to get paid. It would have been a waste of your money to have hired us for a lawsuit that would have terminated in favor of the Pest Control Company.<br><br>We always appreciate feedback. If you find another attorney around town who will take your case and you prevail in court, we'd love to hear about that.

Dear J. Rog. Thank you for the opportunity to tell 'the rest of the story' that you elected not to share.<br>To put a fine point on your initial statement, you did not "hire" this law firm. A person I recognize from the elements of a recent consultation with a member of the City of Virginia Beach School Board - who must be the wife to whom you refer - came to us through an employee benefit that provides access to local legal representation but is not in itself a "retainer." She booked a consultation. We were neither “retained,” nor "hired." <br>In her consultation, Wife sought my support for her belief that Tim Anderson, a person who is both an attorney AND presently a candidate for election to Virginia House of Delegates committed attorney misconduct when he engaged her via social media (Facebook) about recent actions the School Board and/or Superintendent were involved in regarding salary bargaining. The issue is that the Board and/or Superintendent had concealed a known increase in insurance premiums before requiring employees to commit to a written employment contract, and she wanted me to agree that his actions (engaging Wife in social media) constituted attorney misconduct. Mr. Anderson, as an attorney, represents a goodish number of City of Virginia Beach Schools employees in an active lawsuit where the employees are co-plaintiffs against the Superintendent alleging deceit in the contracting process. I agree that he has not been shy about interacting with members of the school board, including Wife, who are active in social media. Wife insisted that Tim "could not do that" because he's an attorney. <br>My analysis was that I detected no attorney misconduct in the facts she shared. <br>I also found myself musing that Wife’s ambition, as a member of the School Board, to allege attorney misconduct was for application in efforts to discredit the employees’ attorney in the lawsuit…<br>At any rate, for those two reasons, I deliberately did not suggest that Wife retain me. I advised Wife that if she wanted to press the issue, she could file a bar complaint with the Virginia State Bar and explained how to do that. She wasn't having it. What I got from her was increasing insistence from her that there WAS attorney misconduct. There was no yelling and no discussion of politics. Me not agreeing with her is also not politics, not yelling, and not attorney misconduct.<br>

We've checked the court dockets weekly since you posted this review, and cannot find your name listed as a defendant anywhere. Please mail or email the court documents to us. <br><br>Update December 17, 2025: Dear Mrs. Taylor: as we do, we review the docket from time to time. No change to our reply above. There is no lawsuit lodged in either the Norfolk Circuit Court or the Norfolk General District Court with your name on it.

Thank you for the review! We appreciate your feedback, Sarah.

Dear All: Jessica Hill is not a client of the firm. Her husband had a consult with in April, and did not retain us. He booked another consult recently after the same matter got bigger (worse) between the prior consult and now. He had sent paperwork in which the attorney reviewed prior to appointment time. Attorney analysis is that his situation now is far beyond what could be dealt with in a mere consultation, and as a courtesy, staff was instructed to tell him so. We didn't want him to waste a consult fee discussing more about the same legal issue that now far exceeded the scope of a consultation. We simply do not provide consults on an irregular consult-by-consult basis while the client's legal problem rumbles along. Discussing a case every once in awhile guarantees we won't know the whole picture. Mr. Hill apparently declined to actually retain counsel, which is perfectly fine. But wrote a crappy review. <br><br>We're sorry that your husband's problem has grown. We would have been happy to be retained. <br><br>

We appreciate you taking the time to leave us a review. Thanks!

Dear Gabrielle - we're always sorry when we don't meet expectations, but your complaint is incomplete without mentioning that the facts that WE completed the service you requested. For reasons beyond our control, the documents we created and mailed by U.S. Mail on your behalf to the courthouse never got there. We offered to repeat our work at no charge to you, and you refused. At your request, the fee you paid has been refunded. Further, our memory of your conversation with staff today was not an amiable "simple conversation." You told my staff member to stop talking after she offered to be helpful.

Thanks for the positive review Randy!

Thank you so much for your 5 Star review Sarah!

We appreciate you taking the time to leave us a review. Thanks!

Dear Laptop Computer: You have flamed Virginia Beach Law Group with a complaint about an attorney who does not work at this firm. You have accurately mentioned that attorney Anna Sas operates a solo law firm called Sas Law, PLLC. If she was your attorney, you would want to complain to her. Please redirect your commentary. It will not reach Ms. Sas on this channel.

Dear Friend - there are three "David Johnsons" practicing law in Tidewater and I believe you've left your review for the wrong David Johnson. I am David C. Johnson. I have no record of any client or prospective client with your name and no record even of anyone named Cuffee who booked an appointment regarding real estate in the past 2 years. I've no idea with whom you met, but it wasn't me. I'm a retired Marine, not a soldier, by the way, which confirms my guess that you met with one of the other David Johnsons. I'd be delighted to speak with you about about real estate. We are very active in this firm helping clients deal with real property matters.

Well. It's always disheartening to have an unhappy client, but based on the timing of this comment, we can guess who posted. We just had a prospective client in the office who did not have a case. The attorney puzzled thru all aspects of the issues, starting with her voluntary exit from rental property last February, and including "he complimented my daughter that she was an attractive young woman." Did not have the lease agreement with her. Did not have the 30-day notice with her. She did not have the landlord's accounting of how her security deposit got spent with her. We make a living helping people get straight with their landlord, but in this instance, the client gave us absolutely nothing to work with. We don't carry people into court when there's no case... thus her disappointment.

Thanks, Morgan. We're glad to know that our enthusiasm for real estate transactions shows!

Dear Samantha: yes, we charge a consultation fee. Our receptionist is not an attorney. Her job is to book appointments, and she is trained to avoid saying anything that might be taken by the caller as legal advice. It accomplishes nothing useful to tell you story to her because she cannot provide legal advice. We're very sorry if you thought that was rude. The process to book a consultation with an attorney includes the prospective client paying the consultation fee. The fact that you spoke with a receptionist who could have booked you an appointment to discuss you situation in detail with a licensed attorney, but balked at the consultation fee is something you should have mentioned in your review. Alas, we are unable to offer our services at no charge to the public.