Avvo

Totally bogus site. I gave a negative review and it was declined (!) What good is a review site if its reviews are biased and controlled for marketing purposes, As a physician I am routinely reviewed on the internet. No one declines my negative reviews.

We submitted a negative review at Avvo for a Torrance, CA attorney Christina Wickers and Rodney Wickers. They were rejected
We believe their rating system is fixed, those 5 stars reviews are posted for attorneys with "endorsed" profiles, and block negative reviews. It's a club. They can't be trusted!

Avvo will take a lawyer's money for advertising but will not take down obviously fake anonymous reviews. Don't waste your money. There are more reputable legal advertising options available. Avvo will make you file a lawsuit in Washington state in order to obtain the identity of the fake anonymous reviewer causing you to incur ridiculous costs.

The worst website to put the lawyer review because they accept the reviews and then after 6 months they tell you that they have to take your reviews off and it has happened for more than 3 times!

Besides, they can only accept good reviews to lawyers now. The bad review can not posted on their website for some reason. It is very biased. I suggest to use google to find a true review instead of the Avvo.com. It has become a huge scam for customers who need a neutral website to find a lawyer.

I posted a very truthful negative review of an attorney on Avvo. It was posted, then removed after one day. I inquired as to why they removed it and they asked me to edit some of the comments. I did and re-posted. It was removed 3 more times. When I called Avvo, they said it was removed in error but would go back up. It did not. One rep for Avvo admitted they had complaints from the attorney.

I had a bad experience during an initial consultation with a lawyer. I wrote a truthful, factual review on Avvo, which got rejected. The same lawyer had other, glowing reviews which were clearly shills - and no negative comments at all.

Clearly Avvo isn't interested in honestly reviewing lawyers. I don't see the point of it and suggest it be avoided.

This company is crooked along with their lawyers. They never approve bad reviews they only approve good reviews. The lawyer in their network was a crook who stole my money yet he has 10 rating dont trust them their lawyers only look good on the paper

Avvo.com claims to be the site for finding "best" lawyers. However, after dealing with 3 years with family attorneys in my area, I now know that, most of the reviews on Avvo are paid by lawyers themselves. In fact, Avvo's business model is designed to serve lawyers and not public.
You can see that many lawyers have disproportionately positive reviews. This is because, they delete any negative reviews posted by public. In fact even the attorneys who have been sanctioned for ethics violations will have hundreds of positive reviews. NEVER TRUST THIS SITE FOR LAWYER.

I found a lawyer on Avvo who turned out to be horrible so I fired her. To be fair the second lawyer I found on Avvo was fantastic. Ok, to the point: I wrote a review on the horrible lawyer that was approved on Avvo back in 2010 and it stood for five years. Then in 2015, my review disappeared along with every other negative review of that lawyer.

So I e-mailed Avvo asking why. They replied that I didn't follow the guidelines for reviews. I replied, so why did you approved it, post it for five years, and then taken down? I never got a satisfactory answer from Avvo on that question so I gave up.

My take away: It appears to me that lawyers can pick and choose what reviews they want posted on Avvo. Thus making the site completely worthless in my opinion.

I used Avvo a few years back, and got some helpful advice from attorneys. I recently posted a question 3 times, 3 different ways, and never got a response. I read a few recent reviews of this site now having a bad reputation with lawyers. I think this site is on a slide down and out. Too bad as Avvo was very helpful one time.

Avvo is a paid service for attorneys. I posted a truthful review about a terrible attorney that has a great rating on their site. The review had no inappropriate or inaccurate statements I just gave an account of my experience after retaining this attorney. I am displease with this website retaining the truth about their client that advertise on their website.

Avvo gives my law firm a rating of 67%. This is not based on feedback from one single client that I have represented. It is based on how much time I am required to spend finishing a profile. I suspect it is also based on whether I want to spend money on one of their marketing schemes. They actually tried to sell me on basically paying to get my rating up!

I have posted several reviews on lawyers and a few not so good reviews. Lately AVVO won't let me post any 1 star reviews on lawyers. AVVO is biased.

All the positive reviews I am seeing seemed to be generated by friends of a lawyer that has multiple negative reviews.

There is no way for AVVO to filter fake positive reviews but they filter valid 1 star reviews! WTH?

The ratings on this website are not accurate. Attorneys are allowed to get rid of all their negative reviews, which is deceiving to the public. For example, attorney Steven B. Chroman from Valencia, CA seems to be a reputable attorney based on avvo's rating. When you read his reviews, you will see mentions of 1 star reviews that he has received. But, you don't actually see the 1 star reviews mentioned because he has gotten them all removed. He only keeps the perfect ratings which is not fair to the public.

They protect useless lawyers! They just say to straighten out friction with the lawyer i review instead of reaching out to the lawyer themselves to justify their incompetence and infringe on our 1 amendment. They only tolerate lying positive reviews!

I picked attorney Margaret Allen from Rockford Michigan for GAL work because she got a very good rating on AVVO. Little did I know that she never returned phone calls. Did not represent my children. Instead she represented my exhusband. And was basically dishonest with her assessment. Will never trust another AVVO rating ever again. My children have paid for this ever since.

If an atty doesn't like your question, avvo let's him attack you verbally. When he doesn't like your comment to his answer, it's removed. 3 times I actually had my question removed. Then he calls his buddy to attack me too. Avvo doesn't care, they just kept removing my question and responses while leaving their lawyers up. Worthless place with worthless lawyers. Oh, and my reviews of those 2 lawyers? Never posted.

Attorneys just get to be rude and arrogant.
But No help. Even if an attorney actually answers, the answes aren't good legal advice. Reviews seem false based on actual dealings with attorneys of this site.

I created a login just to ask one simple question a few months ago. I got 1 worthless answer, but since that time I have been spammed continuously. Immediately the emails started - "Top tips to hiring an attorney"... etc. I have clicked "Unsubscribe" for months, to no avail. It's hilarious... the response: "Sorry, we were unable to process your request. Please contact Avvo Customer Care at *******@avvo.com". When you email them begging them to take you off their list... it bounces back as "undeliverable". So apparently I am spammed for life. There's no way to turn this $#*! off. You'd think a legal website would at least adhere to the law. Nope. For God's sake never use this website, you'll regret it.

I was unaware that as a user for this site, NOT a lawyer, you cannot cancel your profile. I posted something I thought was between me and a lawyer and it was a bit of personal identifying info. I want to cancel, but even live chat is live, just email. I have 2 brain diseases and it is my fault for not being able to notice what I was doing at the time, but the site she allow visitors to remove thier questions and cancel thier profile, just like anywhere else in the web. I REALLY don't like this.

AVVO is nothing short of a scam, used to give lawyers who pay them a higher rating by removing legitimate reviews that are less-than-stellar. My bankruptcy case had been assigned to a fresh-out-of-school lawyer - Jonathan Mas out of Milwaukee, who made many excuses as to why he wasn't returning my calls (Including not being able to figure out his voicemail!) He obviously had no clue what he was doing and we did not want this fraud representing us. So we dismissed him from our case and wrote a 1-star review based on my experience with him. The review was removed. Over and over again, no matter how detailed or vague I worded it! It was super-obvious that AVVO is protecting shoddy lawyers who pass them money under the table. Hopefully people get a clue and do not believe any of the ratings!

You can't spell garbage without a G. Gregory T. Osment came highly recommended to me via AVVO and a local paper. After paying the $75 dollar consultation ( which should be free) and explaining the whole situation as his office dogs nearly pissed on me, he, while ignoring me the whole time, turns and says " So what are your questions for me? "

My questions for you?! I'm here to defend charges I didn't commit!. Hired him on the spot stupidly, and later fired him for a misdemeanor malicious destruction charge. He did nothing but sit, despite the prosecutor having zero evidence. In bed with the judges for sure. Second attorney fought, and won in court. $#*! this guy

All attorneys listed on Avvo have '5-Star' reviews. This is because they will not allow any negative reviews. Believe me, I tried. Avvo will claim that the review 'does not meet community standards', regardless of how well written and factual it is, and they will either not post it, or quickly remove it. If you want better reviews on attorneys, try 'Yelp' or even 'Google reviews'. DO NOT TRUST Avvo!