Avvo

I had two cases one for personal injury with nater law firm attorney Fanny and Raymond sotomayor and after they handled my case for almost four years they abandoned my case a week before the trial I also had a child support case who the opposing attorney craig Bourne delayed the case for 3 years and a half and won after lying to the court officer and after I provided all the evidence you can imagine 47 pages of evidence still this avvo site even refused to file a complaint against this people don't waste your time they all stick together most are friends and it doesn't matter how obvious your evidence is these scum bags will help each other and protect themselves, stay away they are extremely corrupted.

The first time I utilized this site. I use to get legal advice from attorneys. Now for the last two post, nothing. I come to realize this site hasn't benefitted me. Rate it a zero

This site is a complete fraud and scam. I'm a lawyer who had an incredibly terrible review posted about me that was phony and anonymous. I've asked every client I've had in the last 2 years if they posted it and all said no. AVVO claims the review was posted 9 months ago, which is a lie. I was solicited by their high pressure salesmen and women to join them to clean up the bad review. I disputed the review and they took it down. Then they signed me up and took my money. As soon as they got my money they put the bad review up again. I asked a real client to write a review on me and he did. A very positive one, but AVVO rejected it for unknown reasons. I tried canceling them and told them they were not authorized to bill any more charges on my credit card. But they ignored me and keep running $100 per month charges that are unauthorized. I'm reporting them for credit card fraud to the Seattle King County Prosecuting Attorneys Office for investigation. They refuse to take down fake negative reviews to extort money out of lawyers. Then they empty your bank account. The site is a total fraud and scam.

Yeah, I hear all of you complaining and they're all legitimate complaints. AVVO isn't a good place to hire an attorney but it is a really good place to get some good, free legal advice. Over the years I've asked a LOT of questions and the answers usually are very helpful. I, too, made a mistake and hired an attorney from the ratings and got royally burned. Yvette Banker from Arizona, usually does probate, guardianship, conservatorship. She did the old 'bait and switch' where she said only $500 retainer until I signed the contract and all of a sudden, the case was "very complicated and (she) needs another $2500 immediately." Even though I kept telling her I needed to make the case go away, get it dismissed, she kept saying "private fiduciary." I finally got nasty and told her she was to do what I tell her. She continued to screw the case up so I fired her before we even got to court. Arizona adult guardianship court and court appointed lawyers are predators personafied. They are only in it to take the person's estate away and line their own pockets. Two other AVVO attorneys to avoid is Joseph Boyle and Shad Blackford. Imagine why they would be putting a 91 year old through hell just so they can steal the person's estate! They are real bastards!

Avvo claims that you can write a question and have attorneys answer it, so when I did just that, a black attorney sent a scathing, highly racist attack against me and my character. When a black family attacked me in the parking lot, and me being a disabled 52 year old white woman, this black attorney said twice that I had an "irrational fear of blacks", and he did to me exactly what the black family had done. He attacked me when I wasn't doing anything wrong. When I left a return message to him, Avvo refused to put it up. When I reviewed him on his page, Avvo denied it. So, that black attorney could insult, falsely accuse, and belittle me in the most racist, horrible manner, but Avvo felt I couldn't say anything in my defense. They're frauds. I've never gone to them that I actually found a lawyer worth having. They're one sided, like the Board of Professional Responsibility, which is lawyers judging lawyers and always exonerating them. Avvo is a waste of space for anyone who isn't a lawyer.

You cannot rely on ANYTHING that this website post. They do NOT FACT CHECK ANYTHING.
Anyone can go onto the site and post ANYTHING. I found much of the information that they post to be completely false.

I have submitted my review zillion times. Made changes to make negative slight better so Avvo can approve it but Avvo keeps rejecting it. I left a review about a family lawyer and it's a simple review but Avvo keeps rejecting it.

I will paste the review here.

I hired Jasmit Dhaliwal (Family Lawyer in Dallas) to represent me in the divorce case after 1st lawyer rip me off. Instead of her leading the case, she passed my case to a junior lawyer with little experience. During my case, I expirenced dishonesty in agreement and billing. Did not provide the outcome they promised. When I tried to address any concern, I was threatened by Jasmit's manager (her husband) to be dropped. When I tried harder to resolve the issue of billing, I was dropped as a client and when I left a negative feedback on google review, I was harassed by firm lawyer for leaving a negative comment.

Not worth wasting your time and money. They will promise a lot of things that they know is is impossible. Even though it's wife's company, husband is a manager and she doesn't work to resolve the issue and the throws the ball at the husband (manager), who takes any concern negative feedback in a personal way.

The Bar Association is a Regulatory part of our Government. Yet they dont regulate for the public, the Bar is actually a Trade Organization for the members which are
Attorneys. A clear contract is all that is needed, yet the Bar approves a document that
Does nothing to protect the client SURPRISE Not much Avvo simply assists in
Not assisting the public in my opinion

THIS IS A FAKE INSTITUTION. THIS SITE JUST GAVE ME SOME IDIOTIC CREDIT LIKE 4
Or 5. THEN THEY CALLED ME AND ASK ME TO PAY MEMBERSHIP. I ASKED THAT ABOUT THE REASON THEY GAVE ME THAT CREDIT, THEY SAID THE ONLY WAY THEY GIVE CREDIT OF MORE THAN 6.6 IS TO PAY MEMBERSHIP FEES

These idiots are as slimy as the lawyers they claim to review... if you state facts they don't like then they will NOT post it... Fraudulent and failures are what they review.

Low quality website that doesn't allow honest negative reviews about lawyers. Their goal is to get lawyers to pay them so that negative reviews are being taken down. Don't trust their ratings

There are attorneys on this site with high (5-star!) reviews, and it is so dreadfully misleading that I had to find another venue to post the TRUTH! So here it is, I believe that these attorneys are all colleagues and post various bogus "reviews" for eachother. Either that or they are paying off (writing money off their bills?!) clients to submit positive reviews?! A pay off is illegal, but attorneys are the most criminal people I've encountered and I teach criminal youth. Wow AVVO is disgusting with its faux information and their unwillingness to post negative reviews even though I submitted it twice and it contained only facts-no name calling, no low blows-straight facts (like Steven Dinneen took 9 (NINE!) months (MONTHS!) to return a call to me. He's been milking my family for over FIVE YEARS and I'm still not divorced. I have, however, spent 44THOUSAND dollars defending myself against false allegations he's convinced my Ex husband to create against me. He's lost every allegation. Because they're lies. LIES! In addition his performance in court made me embarrassed for him. Literally, my cat could have questioned me harder than he did. I didn't even get nervous. He's an incompetent person. There now I've said the truth and not in a nice way like I did to AVVO. Too bad you didn't post my kind review AVVO. Too bad you're a corrupt entity helping leeches maintain their shady business. Karma is real even if you don't believe in it. It's just a matter of time.

Avvo is advertising for lawyers - it does not provide information for the public. Negative reviews are - for the most part - either not printed or taken off by the attorney.

I was told by a lawyer Jonas Urba that because I live in NY I can not be treated by a doctor in Connecticut he said I would need a justice department lawyer to rewrite the law well I just got a ruling in an arbitration case that say hes doesnt know what hes talking about yes it was handled by the kings county Court in Brooklyn good luck if you hire him

They are in cahoots with lawyers. Pray to god. Don't waste your time with them. When you tell god about them and the lawyers, you get satisfaction. They have no souls. Wicked begot wicked

THEIR REVIEWS ARE ONLY LIES! I hired an attorney following these website reviews and it was a terrible mistake! Now I'm trying to review this attorney with them and noticed that the people purchase their GOOD REVIEWS! IT DOESNT ALLOW ME TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT OR WRITE A REVIEW.

Avvo actively scrubs bad reviews from the site and allows bad lawyers to continue to work. Use a site like yelp where the lawyers are not allowed to remove any bad reviews from the site.

I hired a lawyer based on reviews from this site (he was rated a 9.3!) Well, it turns out that not only was this lawyer Setlak difficult to work with, but had a major conflict of interest with the opposing lawyer. I asked him several times if he had a personal relationship with this other attorney because he was so accomodating to her. During my time with him and in the midst of a contentious legal war, he actually peer endorsed the other attorney (and my case was adversely affected due to bad advice and guidance from my own lawyer). I tried sending an objective, but negative review and it was rejected. DO NOT HIRE AN ATTORNEY BASED ON REVIEWS FROM AVVO!

Avvo lawyers are rude and make nasty comments that are unnecessary to people who are just looking for help. It's better tonot say anything at all than to be rude.

Extremely inaccurate and unrealistic ratings. Does not accurately rate attorneys, rather it just gives more points for how much personal information they provide about their resume.

https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/*******-nj-shari-veisblatt-*******/reviews.html
Scammed my money and did nothing towards the case. Have a look, December 8th two reviews, what a joke! Keep away from her!

Avvo blocked my review for Attorney Mario Cappogrosso. I wrote about my experience with this attorney as follows:
"I wouldn't recommend this attorney to anybody.
I applied for his services at Coney Island NY DMV on seat belt traffic violation case. Mr. Capogrosso collected money from me and never showed up again (before, during, after the hearing) nor returned my phone calls. My case was failed.
I DO NOT WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO SUFFER THE SAME.
PLEASE BE AWARE."

Attorneys on the website write their own bogus reviews-Beware Fraud Alert

Yeah if you ever wanted to consider if this website has any legitimacy that headline alone should drive you far, far away. Avvo knows the bad lawyers on its website write their own reviews and don't do anything about it.

I hired a lawyer, James Kosnett, who did a terrible job in every sense of the word-ignored my phone calls, showed no evidence of any work on the case
Posted a negative review to warn potential victims. It was on Avvo for about two months before it was "contested". Avvo wanted to know if I was a real client (I submitted a retainer to prove that I was). They refuse to put back the review, and subsequently deleted a couple of current negative reviews.

Then I noticed within the same day several positive reviews pour in for the attorney. They all appeared very fake. Obviously with a couple of bad reviews for the attorney it was a shameless and fraudulent attempt by him and Avvo to cover for his latest unethical and poor performance.

Avvo was a joke to begin with, but now crossing over into fraud is a whole other ball game. I wouldn't recommend the website nor anyone else with perfect reviews