Absolutely NOT!!!!
If I could give a negative star rating it would still be too high. After hiring this office, at first, everything went routinely enough. Met with my lawyer Thomas and got all the information hashed out. We went to court and both parties agreed on the terms of the divorce, the split of assets, and had everything read into the court record in front of the judge which he (the judge) signed off on. Done deal right? All I have to do is wait on is the required separation period, sign the paperwork, and it's done, right? WRONG!!! I waited and watched the docket listings for my up-coming case via http://www.co.bell.tx.us/BCC/civilsearch.htm where all court cases are made available to the public. For a month I watched that date get closer and waited for a phone call from the lawyer's office. No call. Two weeks prior to the appearance date, I called the office to "check in". They had no clue! I found out that my first lawyer had left the firm nearly a month prior. They were totally unaware of the upcoming date and a couple of days later they called me in for a "follow up" to make sure we were on "on the same page". In the "follow up" to make sure we were "on the same page", Tisdale knew nothing about my case. I had to go through the whole case again, even though it was ALREADY DONE. Then the day before court I was notified that the date got pushed. No biggie, it happens..... New date set and tracked. I take public transit to the courthouse at 6am to be there for 9am. Tisdale is a no show. I call the office, and after 45 minutes of waiting, I'm told "Oh, the other party's lawyer had to cancel because he had a criminal trial today." When I finally did get to court again, a different lawyer (Baker) shows up. Apparently, Tisdale was on vacation that day. Baker didn't know anything about the case other than it was a divorce. I had to go over the whole case a third time,,, IN THE COURTHOUSE, RIGHT BEFORE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE. The other party's lawyer tried to weasel me with "clarifications" (i.e. alimony) he wanted to be amended into the original court recorded and judge approved agreement with which Baker had no problem. I had to raise my own BS flag, show all the documents and explain that the case was already settled and just needed to be closed out. We had to get the courthouse to print up the original transcript from Jan 2018. I even had to supply the near-final draft of the divorce decree written up by Thomas seven months prior from MY thumb drive in order to make sure it got closed out that day. All in an open and shut divorce case took 8 months everything to was agreed to and read into the record in front of the judge to close out. The absolute only thing this law firm was on time and on point for was billing my bank account every month for its retainer fee, and if the funds weren't there I got an immediate email alert that day. Doubt me not, I have retained all the email correspondences, attachments, bank statements, receipts, and phone records to back everything up.
Oh, final note. While I was going through all this on the final day, Baker had the gal to ask about my politics in order to solicit for my vote since he was running for state office for this region. read more