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The O'Meara Law Firm, PC - Estate Protection with Living Trusts

The O'Meara Law Firm, PC

(3 reviews)

In December of 2025 I reached out to Anita O'Meara, an estate attorney, to have our…read morewills updated to reflect the laws of our new home in Pennsylvania. We met at the end of December to discuss our estate and what we wanted with regards to our Wills and POAs at the advice and urging of our daughter who is also an attorney but not barred in PA. We provided our prior Wills, medical directives, and general power of attorneys which we expected to be updated to reflect PA statutes, etc..... vs. MD At our 12/29/25 consultation we paid a $2K deposit for production of our revised Wills and POAs. About two weeks into January 2026, I sent an email stating that we were not going to move forward with a Trust, which was $50 of the deposit previously paid, but we still wanted our Wills and POAs. We did not hear back from Atty. O'Meara and sent follow up correspondence about two weeks later. After neither Atty. O'Meara nor her PL/assistant responded, we began to send emails to Atty. O' Meara (and copied her PL/assistant). After several emails and leaving voicemails, we involved our daughter who is also a lawyer. Our daughter sent an email on February 10, 2026, and got no response so she sent a second email on February 19,2026. In her second email, our daughter advised Atty. O'Meara that if we did not receive a timely response, she would begin a disciplinary complaint to recover our funds, or at the very least the services for which we had rendered payment in December 2025. To our daughter's correspondence, Atty. O'Meara finally responded on or about February 20, 2026. She attempted to provide an explanation as to her serious delay in responding to our prior attempts to follow up by email or telephone stating a family emergency had been the cause of her delay and unresponsive. At no point prior to our proactive attempts to confirm the status of our updated Wills and POAs/ADs did Atty. O'Meara OR her office staff reach out to us or respond to us to let us know that there might be a delay and the cause of such delay. It was pure radio silence. It was not until our daughter, a non-PA barred attorney, began to reach out on our behalf AND threatened disciplinary review/action that Atty. O'Meara answered her (my daughter's) correspondence. It took three more emails, and over a month timewise, before I finally received the proposed Wills and POA documents three weeks later. We returned our revisions and remarks on the updated Wills and POAs within 24 hours. We (my spouse and I) met with Atty. O'Meara on March 23, 2026, to review and notarize all our documents. As soon as we began to review the documentation presented to us at this meeting, we noticed an error on the first page of at least one document. When I noticed the error (which seemed substantive to me) she indicated she had permitted her son to draft one half of our documents. She did not appear to have reviewed her non-attorney son's work product prior to presenting it to clients, let alone clients who were already unsatisfied with her turn-around and response time. This further led us to believe that she did not value our business in the same manner that we valued our hiring of her. Due to her failure to proofread the drafts she delegated to her non-attorney son, we had to return on 30 March 2026. We again had to meet with two of the witnesses to one of our POAs as they had failed to do so in March. It was unprofessional for Atty. O'Meara to go radio silent for almost two months, requiring the intervention of our daughter. At the behest of our attorney daughter, we respected and attempted to understand that there may have been cause for delay in the production of our end-of-life documents. This patience was rewarded with excuses. If you require prompt responses and documentation production, we would not recommend.

We have been trying to reach Anita since December -nearly 3 months with no contact -but you can see…read moreshe is still posting on LinkedIn. We have paid her in full to handle the creation of our trust, but she does not answer any emails or calls. Happy to change this review, but will be filing a complaint with the Disciplinary Board and also filing all necessary paperwork to try and get back our payment.

Steven J Fromm & Associates, PC - Steven J Fromm Was Named Three Best Rated Tax Attorneys In Philadelphia

Steven J Fromm & Associates, PC

(27 reviews)

Penn Center, Avenue of the Arts South, Rittenhouse Square

I am in California, but I needed some help with some property in PA. Specifically, property related…read moreto probate and wills and stuff. Fun times to try and do from the other side of the country. Not. I reached out to Steven here on Yelp, because Yelp always helps me find great people and companies, and he did not disappoint. I liked his reviews and his website seemed like he knew exactly how to help me. Something about attorneys, you always want to work with someone who specializes in the area of law that you need. I once got some very bad legal advice from an attorney who didn't know anything about family law, so trust me on this friends, even if you are reaching out clear across the country to someone you've never heard of, it is better that your buddy's wife's best friend's husband who is an attorney - and he can probably just "help you out." Don't do it. Talk to an expert. It will be cheaper than fixing bad legal advice. Let me be your warning. But anyway, back to this review, shall we? So I reached out to Steven and gave him all of the jumbled mess of a situation we were presented with. He had a really long intro phone call with us to get more information and to let us know what documents we needed to get ahold of to figure out our problem. I was a paralegal in a previous life, but these were things that I'd never heard of because this wasn't the area of law I worked in. So we set off, armed with the homework of tracking down some stuff to figure out how to proceed. And we did. And we booked Steven for an hour. He reviewed our stuff and spent the entire hour working everything out with us, guiding us on what we should do tax-wise that would not only help us but help others who are impacted by our situation. He answered all of our questions and then some. And he was a pleasure to speak with. And he didn't treat me like a moron when I asked what the heck a cost basis was, because yeah, this isn't my area of expertise. After we got off the phone with him, we felt not only confident that we got the right information to help us proceed, but that we secured the documents we need to include this property into our estate when the time comes due. I cannot rave about him enough although I know I've already been long-winded here. What can I say, I was really impressed with Steven. If he was local I would be sharing his info with my network, but if you're reading this, you are probably in PA so you should go ahead and call him now.

Steven helped us with our taxes this year and did a superb job. He was an excellent communicator at…read moreall times (he even responded to e-mails at night, right away!). He demonstrated a very high level of expertise, competence, and professionalism throughout our matter. Also, his pricing was fair and straightforward, and without any surprises. We were very grateful to have his help and I would highly recommend working with Steven to anyone who needs an estate planning or tax lawyer. You will not find anyone better, he really is the best!

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