Patrice
Cote lawyer reviews
Practice Area:
Civil Litigation
Practice Area:
Corporate / Business
Practice Area:
Divorce / Family Law
Practice Area:
Wills / Estates / Elder
Firm:
Cote Patrice
Phone:
647-508-2868
Profile updated: 10/19/20
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Rating: 1.6 (1-5)
based on 8 reviews.
Lawyer Patrice Cote
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"Patrice Côté lacks the necessary legal knowledge and experience to provide competent representation. Rather than guiding clients with expertise, he attempts to fake his way through the process, giving false confidence at the outset. Once the case begins to unravel due to his poor handling, he shifts gears and pushes for a settlement to cover up his failures. His top priority is not his clients’ best interests but ensuring he gets paid—regardless of the quality of service. If you're looking for a lawyer to set you up for failure, he's the one to hire."
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10/23/20 |
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Patrice Cote is a lawyer that realistically speaking should probably not be a lawyer. He's a very petulant combative little narcissist. A mini Donald Trump is the best comparison I can make.
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My wife hired this Patrice Cote to do a very basic business agreement on consent . She had about a 1/2 hour initial consult (most family attorneys will do this at deep discount), then drafted up a document which was basically an edited template. Probably required an hour tops, most likely much less. The next thing I know, my zero balance credit card has a balance of $5,000 on it, conveniently maxed out. Patrice Cote essentially charged my naive wife the entire limit of our credit card, for about 1 hour of work or less. My attorney friends and colleagues would have charged maybe $300-400 for something like this. When I found about the scam, and after I calmed down, I called Patrice Cote to demand an answer and a refund. Patrice Cote been giving my wife and I the runaround for a week, and has yet to refund our money.
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10/20/16 |
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I asked Patrice Cote for a specific quote to have a real estate transaction completed. Final bill was almost three times amount quoted - deducted from real estate proceeds (no chance to dispute). There were some slight complications with the transaction, however nothing close to justifying the higher price without discussion. I tried to resolve billing dispute, however Patrice Cote would not budge on over-charged amount.I discovered years later that I could have assessed his bill and that Patrice Cote had a duty to inform me of this option. Patrice Cote did not inform me and was happy to watch me feel that I had no options.
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10/25/15 |
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I received Patrice as a referral from EAP (Employee Assistance Program.) I found out once I sought ILA (Independent Legal Advice) that he had poorly advised me from the beginning. The interim agreement was a consent order and should have been a court order, amongst other things. I paid a lot of money for essentially not much. The only thing that he did accomplish was a proposed Christmas schedule that was granted finally in front of a judge at settlement conference. I thought I had a settlement offer out; I did not. So many of the steps were a waste of time and money. The next step was trial before I sought the ILA. (The next lawyer broke it to me straight and hard-I was no where near ready.) He was very negligent and did not do his job. We started the assessment process with him. It is awful when you trust and pay someone to do their job and they do not.I trusted him with my son and my life. Thankfully my family intervened and we started the process to fire him and move on to another.
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6/20/14 |
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I retained Patrice Cote in October 2013. He has accomplished more in past 8 months with my divorce case, then previous lawyers had in the past 4 years. This despite my ex husband constantly delaying the process. Mr.Cote has always conducted himself with professionalism and respect for the courts. Mr.Cote is extremely knowledgeable in family law and work ethic is unsurpassed. Mr.Cote has always communicated with me in a timely manner. I feel that I am getting very good value with Mr.Cote as he surpassed my monthly income that I was expecting from the courts by a considerable amount. I would highly recommend Mr.Cote as a family law/divorce lawyer.
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7/30/13 |
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Patrice Andre Joseph Cote was found to have engaged in professional misconduct for failing to treat the court with candour on an ex parte motion to vacate certificates of pending litigation on December 18, 2009 by failing to disclose all relevant information to the court, contrary to Rule 4.01(1) of the ?Rules of Professional Conduct'. By Decision and Order dated 20 August 2012, the Hearing Panel ordered that (1) the Lawyer is reprimanded; and (2) there is no order as to costs. Check out the LSUC site http://www2.lsuc.on.ca/LawyerParalega...
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9/23/11 |
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I used this lawyer about 6 years ago and he was really a unreliable and bad lawyer. Here is a link of a case on Canlii where the presiding Judge was so upset with Patrice Cote's conduct and lack of candour that the Judge referred Patrice Cote to the Law Society of Upper Canada for it's consideration. http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highligh...
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