Avvo

You can be as clear and straightforward with your question as is possible and you won't get much in return. With the sketchy, half-hearted replies, you'll wonder if these attys even totally read your question. Or understood it. Not worth the effort and I've tried several times. I give this 2 stars because at least they email you with some follow up contact, like they care a tad. Though it's relevant to what you asked only about half the time.

Avvo approves reviews and then denies and pulls the same reviews citing very little if no reason for doing so. I have witnessed this first hand as they could care less about clients who need good attorneys. Avvo does take sides and is being reported to the BBB.

AVVO is a horrible site deceiving innocent people searching for lawyers. I was deceived by their 5 stars rating on a horrible lawyer. Hired that lawyer and I was destroyed and ripped off. When I tried to review that lawyer, Avvo denied my reviews 3 times. They have pre filled the questions at the best rating. That is AVVO.

I last put a review why this 5 stars has only A few ratings over 20 years?
Shame on AVVO for creating a platform or managing a platform to protect liars and crooks.

I wrote an honest review about the attorney that replied to me through their website because after reviewing the book of records I rounded up, he couldn't help me and that's fair enough but I asked to pick up my records for a doctors appointment 4 days away and he told me he wasnt going to make a special trip for me but that i could try in a week. He disputed it, Avvo deleted my review without question.

Used a few attorneys checked ratings on avvo., Thought we had hired some good attorney unfortunately this was the truth:
1.) rating of 10 was addicted to drugs now in jail, 2.) rating of 7-8 was not trustworthy and worse. 3.) rating 7 went to rehab for alcoholism, all during my cases.

I think the ratings on AVVO and likewise are pumped up by friends and other lawyers. What you see is not what you get. One lawyer within a few months of being hired asked us to put a review on Avvo. Attorney hadn't even done anything at that time.

I'm relieved I'm not the only person with a bad Avvo experience. Avvo won't allow me to post a negative review to warn others.

Assistant Attorney General Kaelen Brodie represented the state during a January 2022 hearing. When filing a false emergency motion, Mr. Brodie intentionally misquoted a witness's testimony. Mr. Brodie argued state laws forced a court to accept knowingly false evidence into the record.

Mr. Brodie coordinated false testimonies among his witnesses. All changed their versions of events between hearings to the same or similar questions.

Mr. Brodie also shared confidential information between attorneys with his witnesses before the hearing began. That's not only unethical behavior; it's illegal.

Unfortunately, Washington state residents may never know of Kaelen Brodie's corruption.

Avvo purports to "rate" lawyers based upon publicly available information (specifically, bar disciplinary records) as well as other unspecified information. What they really want lawyers to do is "claim" their profiles (which results in an automatic increase in rating) and then sell advertising to lawyers (which seems to result in an additional rise in rating). Thereafter, lawyers can "game" the rankings by arranging for favored clients and colleagues to write nice things about them. I have witnessed colleagues increase their avvo rating from the 6.5 range ("good") to the 9.3 range ("superb") over a few months. Now they are engaging in an aggressive, obnoxious telemarketing campaign where they call my office line continually and ask to speak to me about my ranking. They will not stop calling when asked. Just say no to Avvo.

This site will decline bad reviews, which makes it worthless. You can't trust it. I had a very horrible experience with Kyle Moore, an estate lawyer in Shreveport Louisiana. I wanted to tell people about it. He messed up in a area where he was supposed to be an expert. He messed up in many ways and it caused me a lot of heartache, headache, and grief. He does not seem at concerned with all the trouble he caused. He's even wanting to charge me for trying to fix his mistake. I can't understand how anybody could be this awful and think it's okay.

Avvo, like anything else lawyer related is all about protecting lawyers. I posted several reviews and most they wouldn't post or withdrew. You can't trust them, they obviously protect their lawyer members by harassing the reviewers and making them answer core and over for what they write. Same old lawyer tricks. Wear you down until you give up. I guess the lawyer paid packages must vary in order to not have their reviews published. Don't waste your time and don't expect to get reliable reviews.