I retained Diana's firm a year ago after watching dozens of her priceless YouTube videos on…read morenavigating the SF family law court system. Her firm is smart, mighty, and responsive. The team operates quickly, boldly, and in close coordination. I often hear them creatively problem solve our case issues on their walkie talkies during our calls, swapping legal codes, flagging new case law, and noting trends in Judges' recent rulings.
The firm is not afraid of tricky cases. In our first ~6 months, they pulled off filing disclosures, responding to Discovery and two RFOs, appearing at an at issue status conference, filing for financial supports, and obtaining 10+ financial subpoenas going back ~10 years. Relatedly, although our case's complexity outpaced the affordability of continuing full scope representation, they've remained supportive. The firm's been gracious with transitioning to limited scope and consulting retainers. Billing is weekly, so there aren't month's end surprises.
Diana, Javier, and Rachel's writing styles are professional, respectful, assertive, compelling, and legally grounded. Jessica's also been key administratively under tight timelines with lots of moving pieces.
I've worked closest with Javier on custody issues, and I know he truly cares most about the best interests of our toddler. Javier has been a pillar of strength and hope in a legal system that plays out in unexpected ways. He's skilled in relationship building, structuring and focusing arguments, balancing many high needs cases while remaining responsive, and working collaboratively with clients. Javier makes difficult conversations easier, is persistent with attempts to build friendly bridges with opposing counsel, helps keep me on track with the overall case management deadlines, and pulls in team members when it helps.
I also appreciate that the firm is tech forward in their processes and are early AI adopters. They've developed prompts and template libraries they've shared with me and leverage note taking and drafting tools to reduce billable hours. They too would rather bill for legal strategy then manually drafting 50 pages of tedious objections.
They've also coached me how to save legal fees, for example teaching me about legal codes and procedures, encouraging me to craft my own first drafts, and sharing actionable Youtube Videos and content to empower clients like me to understand what's actually going on if you're interested in taking an active role in the process.