Is Portland OR attorney
Harry Ainsworth
a lawyer
or a liar?

IS HARRY AINSWORTH A FECKLESS LIAR WHO PLACED THE CONCERNS OF HIS CLIENT'S ADVERSARY BEFORE THOSE OF HIS ACTUAL CLIENT?

A SHYSTER WITH THE MORALS OF PREDATOR? 

HIRE HIM TO DEFEND YOUR INTERESTS AND FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF!

My personal experience:

I retained Harry Ainsworth to defend me in an eviction suit brought by my notorious landlord, Templeton Property Management, owned by the equally notorious Spencer Noecker. Noecker brags on several of his corporate websites about his opportunistic business practices.

Harry did a good job and beat them, as evidenced by Judge Marilyn Litzenberger's multi page decicion which lambasted the landlord, calling them liars and finding that they retaliated against me for perfectly legal and protected complaints.

But then it was time to complete the matter with a damages action. Harry disappeared off the face of the earth. From May 2018 - when the judge's decision was published - through October of 2018, I left over a dozen messages for him, inquiring why he hadn't filed the second part of the suit. Numerous emails went unanswered. I even went to his office on three occassions, only to find it closed.

Out of the blue, at the end of October 2018, Ainsworth telephoned me. His first reply to my many attempts to get him to follow through on the damages suit.

He informed me that (during the period of time he was ignoring me) the statute of limitations to file would run out in a few days. He also claimed he was "too busy" to file the suit. The solution he offered was to provide me with a "boilerplate" filing, have me fill it in and file it with the court, and then he would "substitute in" and take over the case.

After I did this and provided him with the copies, he flatly stated that he would under no circumstances pursue my case if I did not lower the maximum value to below $50,000. (I had asked for more in my legal filing)

Now, I believed my suit to be worth more - but that is irrelevant. What kind of businessperson (or lawyer) thinks that if you expect to settle for  a certain sum, say $50,000, you don't demand more in negotiation? A complete fool. Noetheless, that is what Harry demanded.

With the viability of my suit at risk - and the statute of limitations expiring due to Ainsworth's negligence, leaving me no time to locate a different attorney - I gave in to his demand that the suit be limited to a maximum recovery of $50,000.

But, even though I did as he demanded, he failed to file the substitution of attorney. I kept getting all the court notices as the "pro se" plaintiff.

I had to keep on him to take over the case, which he finally did several months later. And then he did virtually nothing until I continued to demand action.

When the Defendants in the case failed to file a response with the court, and I was entitled to a default summary judgement, Ainsworth flatly refused to file for it, claiming that "it would put me (Ainsworth) in a bad position with the Defendant's attorneys on future matters". His well being was more important to him than his client's case.

In a meeting during August of 2019 he threatened to fire me if I refused to settle the case for $15,000.

He also divulged confidential, attorney/client privileged information to the opposing counsel, further damaging my position with Noecker, et al.

Now, I had sensed Ainsworth's reluctance to pursue a mega-millionaire landlord with extensive holdings. In fact, the landlord I was suing had just purchased the actual Multnomah County Courthouse and leased it back to the county for free until the new courthouse is ready for occupancy! In the early months of this case, I offered repeatedly to allow him to withdraw if he wished to. He refused several such offers from me, and promised to pursue my case zealously.

Ainsworth completed the larger underlying false eviction suit for approximately $15,000 in costs, through preparation and a three day trial.

Now, Ainsworth is alleging that he has expended almost as much in NOT pursuing my damages case. All he did was provide a boilerplate from his computer, reluctantly file as the attorney, and make a few phone calls to the other side's lawyer.

He dragged the open-and-shut damages suit out for more than a year, claiming the delay was the "fault" of the court's arbitrators. The court states unequivocably that there was no backlog causing the months-long delay. They said we could have been before arbitrators within 14 days of filing.

And then, after well over a year of his delays, he threatened to fire me because I refused their low-ball offer of a few thousand dollars.

And, he still expects full payment of over $12,000 even though he tanked my case and threw me under the bus!

Now that he is withdrawing as counsel, he has refused to turn over his files on the case to me so that I can prepare for a January 2020 court date.