Keith Anderson Nelms suspended for 3 years!!! Why?

Sweet. Its about time.

Unfortunately Keith Anderson Nelms wasn't disbarred. Only suspended for 3 years.

You're right alabama lawyer. Sorry about that people. My mistake.

I LOST $1149.00 DOLLARS FOR A DEBT CONSOLIDATION AND HE DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO HELP ME I AM 72 AND I NEED MY MONEY. TOO OLD

If I have a direct deposit coming out of the my bank account do I stilll need to worry about it coming out or since it's been shut down does that mean I don't have to worry about it?

Rhongepooh

Go to your bank and ask them to discontinue payment to this company. Or close your bank account and open up another one in the same bank.

I worked for "Andy" Nelms years ago and the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to loose his license. To bad he wasn't disbarred. He takes advantage of the weak and laughs his way all the way to the bank!! His wife Jennifer is just as horrible of a person and now has the balls to "Represent" him in this matter which to me seems like the blind leading the blind!

I worked for "Andy" Nelms years ago and the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to loose his license. To bad he wasn't disbarred. He takes advantage of the weak and laughs his way all the way to the bank!! His wife Jennifer is just as horrible of a person and now has the balls to "Represent" him in this matter which to me seems like the blind leading the blind!

Sadly, Not surprised, I am Not surprised that it took waaaaay too long to pull Andy's lunch ticket. Other lawyers are doing the exact same thing with their credentials and nothing happens to them until they've ruined at least 8,000 lives. That seems to be the Bar's minimum account size before they'll lift a finger, and even then, they give these varmints every break in the book, because they're wealthy and successful.

The better news is, the wheels of the Bar grind slowly but closely, and he is likely not ever getting his law license back. I'm not sure about the Alabama rules, but in some other places, if a lawyer gets suspended for a long time, he has to show rehabilitation before readmission. We all know his type--didn't do nothin, not sorry for nothin, ain't admittin to nothin, which will not go over well with the Bar. Better yet, if he gets indicted and convicted of a crime, or especially if the Bar can show he misappropriated client funds or told others to, he's a goner. Look what happened to Laura Hess. It took awhile, but she finally got the lawyer death penalty.

Eh Chris L in NC:

How did Laura Hess get the " lawyer death penalty"? She got disbarred for only 5 years. Are you saying she will never get her license back? I'm confuesed on how this works. Can you explain it to me? Did I miss something.

I thought disbarred meant gone forever? If disbarred for 5 years, isn't that like a suspension?

Well, in one way, "disbarred for 5 years" and "suspended for 5 years" sound like there's some hope for her. There isn't. She committed suicide to keep from getting executed.

Since I happen to be a Florida lawyer and have read many FL Supreme Court disciplinary opinions, I can tell you a suspension longer than 90 days requires proof of rehabilitation before they'll give the license back. You can read the consent order at Lewis B. Freeman's site, way back in the stack of court documents in October 2008. The referee (in FL, the Supreme Court has the last word on lawyer discipline, but they first want it heard before a referee, usually a trial judge who gets stuck with it, to find out what's going on and make a recommendation) found that she was guilty of cumulative misconduct, like partnering with nonlawyers, sharing fees with nonlawyers, not putting client money in trust accounts, practicing law in states where she wasn't admitted, deceptive advertising, failure to provide competent representation, improper soliciting of new clients, paying referral fees to solicitors, charging clearly excessive legal fees, allowing nonlawyer employees to represent and counsel clients, failure to supervise staff, and running a lawyer referral service that did not comply with Florida rules. Maybe there were some others I missed.

The referee found no mitigating factors, and five aggravating factors: prior disciplinary offenses, dishonest or selfish motive, a pattern of misconduct, multiple offenses, and substantial experience in the practice of law. The recommendation was for 5-year disbarment, and what I don't understand is, why the 5 years instead of permanent.

So she didn't fight it any further and agreed to that. At the time she gave up, Laura Hess had 23 file numbers pending at The Florida Bar, and five more complaints the Bar was just starting to look at, which has to set some kind of world record. She will not be getting back in.

Here in NC, a lawyer used her firm's credit card for personal expenses about fifty times, including buying toys and donating them to her church for needy families and taking credit for it. When caught, she lied and falsified documents. Her firm was not amused, and ratted her out to the State Bar. As it happened, she was doing all this at about the same time she was opposing me on a debt collection case, and based on her behavior there, I wasn't a bit surprised when I found out. She should have been disbarred, and if she'd stolen from a client she would have been, but she and her "character" witnesses managed to talk the Disciplinary Hearing Commission into only a five-year suspension because she was having a very hard time then, and was otherwise a good person and fine lawyer--although the quality of her legal scholarship, based on the mess she wrote in the case I was on, was below that of some prison inmates I used to know.

But likely she, and fer sher not Laura Hess, will not be back to bother us. Hope that splains you some, Lucy!

So in other words Andy is on the chopping block as well?

In a word--yup.

Like Miracle Max says, there's all dead, and then there's only mostly dead. Andy Nelms is all dead. He ain't coming back. He might even go to prison, oh please God.

i remember hearing alot about this and so glad to hear that something is being done. Sadly as above was posted it takes so long and so many lives to be ruined before something is actually done.

A question though, these people that are working through them now, are they aware or have been notified of this situation? Its sad that they may still be having there accounts deducted for services that they may feel is still being offered if they were not notified.

I dont think being disbarred or suspended is enough punishment for these type of folks, I agree they should spend some time in prison, Its a crime that should be severely punished for they most likely ruined so many lives, they should be punished appropriately

I lost over $5,000.00 to this scammer. We were told that they were negotiating with our credit card companies. It is all a lie. They stole our money, I could of paid off 2 credit cards. I am disabled and need that money back to get an honest lawyer. Any ideas on how to do that. Is the Attorney Generals office and the Securities Commission going to help the people that lost money. Thinking about doing this don't! look up Keith Anderson Nelms he is suspended for 3 years due to dishonest practicing. He got a slap on the hand should of went to jail the thief.

Site rules don't allow us to post links, but go to the Alabama Attorney General's site and somewhere near the front is contact info for the receiver that's taken control of Nelms/Allegro's assets. You can put in a claim with them and you can probably do all right without a lawyer.

I totally agree that knuckleheads like Andy should sit in prison, preferably for life and preferably in a supermax where they can make new friends. It's strange that this hardly ever happens, compared to, say, if they had robbed two people of $55 at gunpoint. They would have got 25 years, like one of my clients did when I used to do criminal defense. Andy, and other lawyers I can name, prove the Godfather's saying that one lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns, but even when evil lawyers like Andy lose their licenses and have multimillion-dollar civil judgments entered against them because that's how much they stole from thousands of people, they either get low sentences, or skate altogether because the prosecutor says it's too hard to prove.

Andy Nelms has now teamed up with the frauds from CCDN fame to form ezdebtsolutions, llc. www.creditrestore123.com they are attempting to continue with his debt settlement/negotiation scheme.

This guy is a #$%^ing...CROOK ! Gets people last hopes up and then WHAM! I gotcha. I lost about $6,000.00 to this JERK Andy Nelms. And if we meet in hell, he'll wish he never died.

I'm following the process of trying get some type of refund. See below

You can check out some progress - allegrolawreceiversship dot com

Ive lost over 10K with the Allegro trash. To the people who worked for or know of him...will you please post his address or something near him? I know how to get some revenge...

what bothers me is that these A$$holes can go on the radio with these ads and get suckers like me who listen to the same station for yrs actually interested in what they have to say. Thank GOD they only got 300 from me but the mess with my creditors will be a long time to fix. He gets a slap on the wrist for runing peoples lives and to the ones who say your surprised you knew ANDY if you knew this cat and knew what he was doing to people you should be ashamed.!!! It wouldnt have taken this long if you would have opened your mouth and spoke up!