From December 2014 to December 2017 Dowdy represented a defendant I was suing. The defendant had $15,000 to his name, and Dowdy made it seem he was doing this person a favor. It was an extraordinarily simple case, reflected in that Dowdy asked few questions at depositions.

After five months, apparently Dowdy, at $350/hour was incapable of handling this simple case, so the defendant, presumably with Dowdy's blessing, had to add a co-counsel Atkins at an even higher rate, of $450/hour. They proceeded to run up $167,827 in fees! Some amounts prior to October 2016 were forgiven, but all of the $108,436 since then Dowdy demanded from this almost penniless client to be "PAID IN FULL."

I reviewed the charges, and many appear to be outright fraud. Dowdy and Atkins billed this poor client 3.2 hours at $800 to simply talk about a motion to consolidate the case with another, which was drafted by another defendants' s counsel, and was only 3-pages long, which could be discussed in two minutes. Dowdy billed his client 4.5 hours for a 2.5-page motion for Rule 167 fees, which had only 17 sentences.

I initially respected Dowdy, but now think he is extremely unethical.