My original review was removed for some reason, but luckily a copy of the review was included in the email notifying me of its removal. So I am posting it again in hopes that it will save others from making the same mistake I did.
I was looking for a lawyer for my custody case. I read some good reviews on this place and was very optimistic. I sent all the paperwork that I had over to the office almost 2 weeks before my consult with Katherine E Peterson was scheduled. Finally the day comes to do the consult and she hadn't even bothered to read the paperwork I sent over before hand. So the first several minutes of my consultation was spent with her just skimming over the documents I sent. After that when I tried to explain the situation to her, she was very rude and condescending. When I would say/ask something about something in the court order, she would argue with me and say "no it doesn't say that". I would say "yes, it does, I have read this court order at least 50 times", and then I would have to spend another ~3 minutes waiting for her to skim through it and read it over again and say "oh I guess you're right, it does say that...". Mind you, I was paying $200 for a 30 minute consult and she spent at least a third of that time reading this paperwork and arguing with me about what it said. How do you get off arguing with me about what a court order that you haven't even read says?? Anyways at one point she literally told me that I "need to lose the attitude against my ex because it's not going to help me". Obviously I'm not going to walk in a court room and have attitude with the judge but I should be able to express my feelings to my lawyer. Hey, at least I thought so. It seemed to me that she felt because she was older than me, she could scold me like she was my mother. She literally said "I'm gonna sound like your mother for a minute". I didn't pay $200 for a consult to have someone give me "motherly advice". I needed a LAWYER and LEGAL ADVICE. She constantly interrupted me and argued with me the whole time, and repeatedly told me that basically she did not believe what I was telling her and there HAD to be another explanation for why certain things happened in my case. I was very clear from the beginning that my ex is a literal sociopath who took pleasure in abusing me, and the GAL was extremely biased and I got massively screwed over. If things had been done correctly and fairly the first time, I wouldn't have been here looking for a lawyer now! Anyways, this was by far the most unprofessional consultation I have ever had and the biggest waste of $200 I've ever spent. At the very least, she should have actually taken a few minutes to read the court orders I sent over before our consultation, considering she had almost 2 weeks to do so. Extremely unhappy and would not recommend, unless you want to spend $200 for 30 minutes of someone arguing with you and treating you like a child.
Update: they did see my review and refunded me for the consult and requested I remove my review. Regardless of the refund, people deserve to know that this experience could happen to them if they chose to go here. read more