Not answering emails strikes me as a weaker charge than professional misconduct, but the more important point is that no internet comment should count as a "strong" accusation, unless by "strong" you mean "intense". Such comments are always—basically without exception, in my experience—carefully crafted to leave out any detail that would reveal the other side of the story. We all know how dramatically different the story appears when such details trickle out later, as occasionally they do; and we all know how by then, the dramafest spotlight has usually moved on.
If true he should be praised for coming forward. I had six immigration lawyers that were totally screwing things up. At some point when doing first time meetup of a new lawyer I wanted to hire, I embarrassed him knowing more about basic Immigration laws that he did!
Majority of lawyers really dont care. They run a caging operation. If you call their office and you are not client, you will speak with head of the food chain, many times owner himself. One you get signed in, bye bye! Thats usually last time you hear from him/her - from now on you dealing with assistants. And immigration laws not only change often, but the USCIS will not comply with their own laws on many occasion. I dealt with enough government on average to tell you Immigration is sort of different because they serve aliens that have less rights than US citizens. For example IRS will treat you more seriously because on average 99% of their “clients” are USC, capable of calling their representative and stirring the pot. Average USCIS “client” is usally less powerful foreign citizen with maybe $500 savings. I was lucky to immigrate with nice saving cushion and took USCIS all the way to BIA (Board of Immigration) and basically embarrassed the whole local USCIS office, where BIA wrote completely shredding response, pointing out USCIS abuse of authority, lack of professionalism, and outright rudeness. In fact, even though my lawyer screw up so bad that there was no choice than actually start all over (with less chances of approval since now I have this spoiled milk spilled all over my alien number), the BIA went out of their way and told local office you will do X,Y,Z and if no issues arise you will approve this file. Something that's typically unheard of. Dealing with USCIS for 12 years to the cost of close to $100,000 I probably should have wrote a book by now. But its much worse than you can imagine, I can tell you this much.
Bottom line: get yourself local lawyer, small office type lawyer, preferably that worked in gov before. Believe me or not, when it comes to USCIS, its all about who you know. My last screwup was trying to get an update on the file (typical stalling technique is for USCIS to neither approve you nor deny, so you are in limbo for as long as YOU have the guts, time, energy AND money to continue "harassing" them for what's your right per INA) for close to two years.. meanwhile I went to this lawyer that used to work for the immigration office himself, and during our 30 minute call, he already emailed his buddy at USCIS and got back the ANSWER other lawyers couldn't get for years (!!).
If true, there are many better ways to deal with this than play forum hero. Law is a regulated profession and comments like this are almost invariably complete fucking bullshit.
There are things called Law Societies or Bar Associations that are built to accept and investigate these types of complaints. That's the nature of regulated professions - there are places to complain and investigate.
Do I want others to benefit from my experience? Yes
Do I want to help fellow entrepreneurs avoid negative immigration consequences? Yes
Do I want Peter to lose his law license or get sanctioned? No. Even though I have specific proof which could get him at least sanctioned.
Do I care whether more or less business goes to Peter? Also no
His actions turned my life upside down. It took me years to fix things. Abandoning me after rejection was worse. He talked to me the day before rejection in a very positive discussion. After the rejection he didn't reply to any email nor returned any call. His paralegal kept responding to me.
I am not trying to be vindictive here.
I am just trying to help fellow entrepreneurs. I went with Peter based on his AMA. It ended up being a huge mistake in my case. Hope others can use my experience as a data point to do further due diligence!