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24 Mar, 2023 by Tammy pesek
Always professional, transparent and effective.
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23 Nov, 2020 by Natascha kyler
Jesse Barrett . This company keeping him is a reflection of his unethical behavior.
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20 Nov, 2020 by Sue smith
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28 Jan, 2020 by Johnie cole
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12 Sep, 2019 by Karrina dietz
Very professional, helpful and explained everything so we could understand everything we were there to discuss.
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22 Aug, 2018 by Ashley abrams
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02 May, 2024 by Scott wilcox
I have worked a very complex case with this firm (and Hogan-Willig before it) for over a decade. The case had it is ups and down but throughout it I was impressed by the professionalism and care that they showed me as a client. As the case draws to a close, I wanted to leave a review to say I would definitely recommend them and the staff to others and say thank you for sticking with me.
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18 Mar, 2024 by Ciji vandyke
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31 Jul, 2023 by R gh
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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19 Jul, 2024 by Aaron miller
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09 Feb, 2024 by Lahib desha
Please do your research before hiring an immigration lawyer! We decided to reach out to Taft Law regarding an E2 business visa. We were told during our consultation that it would be around $6-8000. We talked it over and decided to go with them. We had a few more questions about the process in the next following days and we had told them we were going to go through with it and pay a retainer. After the first initial email we got from them me and my wife decided that we were no longer interested in pursuing that visa. Not because of the law firm but we decided that it was too risky of business for us and decided not to proceed. I sent them an email saying I was sorry and no longer wanted to proceed and apologized for wasting there time and that I was going to pay them for there time they had spent on our file. We had a 45 min consultation, a 15 min phone call followed by a 20 minute phone call. We had no idea that every second of each phone call was being billed out at $480/hour. Long story short they charged us $1740 for a Zoom Consultation, 2 phone calls and an email. And they said that price included things that they didn’t charge for as well, as if they were giving us a break at that price. I feel like they threw the charges at us only because we were no longer working with them. They quoted us 6-8k for the visa and they did about 5% of the work and billed us $1740? Something doesn’t add up. Unfair billing practices! I don’t expect them to work for FREE but $1740 for an email, 2 phone calls and a consultation is ridiculous. I would highly suggest you go elsewhere where they are more transparent with their prices. We are out the $1740 but it’s probably best as there quote of 6-8k would probably end up being 10-14k.
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16 Aug, 2024 by Anonymous
I hired them as a criminal defense attorney. Paid him $5000 up front. After nothing happened in a year I asked him for a partial refund he told me he did a lot of work that I didn’t know about and I would never hear anymore about it. He never did anything because after another 6 months I was arrested and taken to jail. He then had the nerve to ask me for another $5000 saying the case is more complicated. I reused to give him any more. Fortunately Arron was handing my case and it was settled 1 month later. Arron was very good and honest. But if you deal with Chris you are in trouble.
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28 Mar, 2024 by Yasir fayyaz
Ignore the bad reviews. Aaron is an honest and professional lawyer. He worked diligently with me for 3 months on my probate case. He followed up every step of the way and even showed up to court on the day we got everything approved from the court. I would not hesitate to have Aaron represent me in any matter. Very reasonable charges and tries his best to come under the budget set. Truly is an honest good lawyer. Also Dorothy at the front desk is very nice and professional always ready to answer any questions and help! Thanks for helping me and my family.
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13 Mar, 2024 by Nancy cox
I had a terrible experience with Mark! Do not hire him! He doesn't care about you in anyway! He ruined my case and and my life 😡
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12 Jul, 2023 by Anonymous
Hired Marc by default only to be insulted and and treated very rudely. After going to work he continued to increase his fees and insults he worked harder in finding ways to charge me more then he would on my case. He would only return my calls when he felt like it. I would give him the information he requested only for him to confuse and mix-up the information then complain about having to do the work. finally imputing your information given to him incorrectly and charging me almost double what I was originally quoted. yet he complained about everything. Then after charging me double and making the entire event more difficult he quit halfway through and charged me a highly inflated amount. I still had to hire another attorney to finish the case and do damage control. Do yourself a favor and hire a competent attorney one that doesn’t blame you for all of his mistakes.
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10 May, 2022 by Anonymous
I paid to retain Mr. Grant for a divorce based on 10 years of separation, Mr. Grant failed to take any action for several months and completely stopped responding to all forms of contact. No paperwork was filed in the two months I had Mr. Grant on my case. I had to terminate Mr. Grant and am fighting to get my retainer fee back. No one in his office answers the calls of follows up on messages. Do not use!
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02 Nov, 2021 by Jenna
Mark Grant really put in the work and effort to ensure my son came back home to his mommy. I couldn't have asked for a better lawyer. I did follow protocol as close as possible and completely gave it my all as well. Marc did not disappoint in ensuring that 100% of my hard work paid off. The previous statement says he's a beast in the court room and I very much agree. He will always keep his clients best interest as priority too. Absolutely amazing! Jenna Lockard
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12 Oct, 2024 by Anonymous
DO NOT HIRE THIS LAWYER.He is a slug,careless ,act like a pauper,does not answer your calls or answers days later, he is only after ur money. he does not take credit cards by telling you if he does , he will have to pay taxes. so he is a cheater already. Wants only cash or checks. while having 3 boats he claimes to be poor.he gives u long boring stories and lectures about his relationship with his girlfriend for 1 or even 2 hours instead of taking care of your case. he just wants to make money to make ends meet. lazy, slow, unknowledgeable, overweight, talks about irrelevant stuff. u will be sorry to hire him.i made that mistake by not yielding to other reviews about him. DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKE. DO NOT HIRE THIS NOTORIOUS LAWYER.
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08 Dec, 2016 by Anonymous
I was looking at this site and saw the negative review from the guy whose case was dismissed and I am surprised that he was complaining about a dismissal. I had Mr. McBride deal with a Felony Assault with a Weapon arrest back in 2010 and I was happy with both the result (no conviction on my record) and the service (he immediately presented my issues to a supervising District Attorney). I would use this office again without hesitation as the fee was a fraction of what other lawyers charged for this. Maybe things changed or maybe the other client really had different expectations than I did but, I don't see how you can complain about a dismissal?
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27 Oct, 2014 by Matt
I was arrested on a restraining order violation. Hired Mr. McBride as my attorney. This was a very, very easy case for ANY attorney to have dismissed. My opponent had removed a critical part of the Judges order in the restraining order which prohibited me from being arrested. When the Sheriffs did not see that order, I was arrested. Mr. McBride spoke to the District Attorney assigned to my case and immediately showed the DA the discrepancy in the two restraining orders: One said I could not be arrested (mine and the original courts), the other did not have that page (my opponents he gave to the Sheriff for evidence). The DA immediately asked Mr. McBride, "How do I know your client did not write that himself and stick it in there?" (fair question). Mr. McBride said, "You don't. I don't. Get the original court order and get back to me." When the DA obtained the original court order and saw the original and mine were identical and my opponents copy had that critical page missing, the DA knew immediately that page was removed and, knowing there was no way the DA would win this case, dismissed the case before trial. Easy case to have dismissed before trial. Why so few stars when he won my case? Having Mr. McBride return phone calls was a case in futility. This attorney just NEVER corresponds with his clients. In my case, the first meeting with Mr. McBride and the DA was in November. The case was continued until Dec 18th for the DA to receive the original court order. After December 18, I did call Mr. McBride a couple times, hoping to get an update before the Christmas break. No such luck. I phoned Mr. McBride at least 10 times in January. Never a return call. I phoned Mr. McBride at least 5 times in February until he finally answered his phone. I asked him for an update on my case. He said the case was dismissed back in December. I asked why he didn't call me or send me an email or a text to let me know that it was dismissed. Mr. McBride said, "The court should have done that." No Sir. You're MY attorney. I hired YOU. YOU do that. Not the courts. That's what you get from Mr. McBride. Good luck receiving updates or a courtesy return phone call. I'm sure when Mr. McBride improves on this much needed aspect of his practice, his ratings will dramatically improve as well.
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26 Dec, 2020 by Gina
I was charged with two felonies back in 2015, and my attorney at the time was Paul Tylenda. Based on our initial meeting, I had reason to believe he would be a good choice to represent me. Well, come time for my probably cause hearing, AND my preliminary exam- Mr Tylenda did NOT show up to represent me. Instead, I had to have an attorney who had worked on a case right before mine represent me. And yes... I paid Mr Tylenda for the services he DID provide, but when he decided to not arrive to BOTH of my court dates, I felt there was absolutely nothing he should’ve been paid for besides obtaining the discovery. The only hearing he was not late for was the motion I had filed for early release from probation. That one he managed to be present for... gotta show up for that last court date to make the claim that you represented me to your best ability, I guess? I look back on this, five years later, and realize that I was too young to have allowed this attorney to take advantage of my time & naivety. If this had happened again, I simply would have just not paid him at all.
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20 Jun, 2018 by Branden
I was sentenced to Macomb County Jail. Now my exact sentence was very confusing because of the unprofessionalism of the Prosecutor and Court Clerks yelling and cursing at my Defense Attorney at the time (Court Appointed). I was released from Jail on Probation 12 days later. After 9 months of reporting to Probation and paying over a thousand dollars in restitution, my Probation Officer calls me and tells me I need to turn myself in to do a year in the county jail and that there was a clerical error! I called Paul Tylenda and did not turn myself in. I went to Court and got a Date set. Paul was more than helpful and in communicating my situation and is still working on a solution to my case. I will update the out come of yet another mess up by Macomb County Courts.
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06 Feb, 2023 by Anonymous
Management of my company knows Brett Schuman to be capable. Our only issue is that we felt shunted off to junior associate Rachel Samec and that our legal work suffered a bit as a result of miscommunication and other idiosyncrasies. We'd have preferred more direct help from Schuman himself. Our business is perhaps too small to rate access to the big players.
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15 Mar, 2024 by Mikaela carruthers
I reached out to Sam Vitale in early February for help with a property dispute. We scheduled a phone call on 2/7/24, where he told me he would be able to help me and my family. He told me that he would be in contact with me by the end of the week with more info. We never heard from Sam again after this. I sent multiple follow up emails, and was completely ghosted. Unprofessional and not okay. If you weren’t comfortable/confident with helping us and our situation, then communicate that rather than completely ignoring my follow up emails. Do not recommend.
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15 Mar, 2024 by Mikaela carruthers
I reached out to Sam Vitale in early February for help with a property dispute. We scheduled a phone call on 2/7/24, where he told me he would be able to help me and my family. He told me that he would be in contact with me by the end of the week with more info. We never heard from Sam again after this. I sent multiple follow up emails, and was completely ghosted. Unprofessional and not okay. If you weren’t comfortable/confident with helping us and our situation, then communicate that rather than completely ignoring my follow up emails. Do not recommend.
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15 Mar, 2024 by Mikaela carruthers
I reached out to Sam Vitale in early February for help with a property dispute. We scheduled a phone call on 2/7/24, where he told me he would be able to help me and my family. He told me that he would be in contact with me by the end of the week with more info. We never heard from Sam again after this. I sent multiple follow up emails, and was completely ghosted. Unprofessional and not okay. If you weren’t comfortable/confident with helping us and our situation, then communicate that rather than completely ignoring my follow up emails. Do not recommend.
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16 Aug, 2023 by Birdy
These people are scammers beware, "representing" these corrupted collection companies who buy liens off of towing companies and try to collect payment from whoever shows is the registered owner of the vehicle at the time, they don't even do research or get their facts straight, just try to take advantage of people that will let them. That's why they don't even put their real contact information on their fake letters. Stop pretending you are a legit lawyer you lowlifes.
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05 Feb, 2023 by Fuck d s s
Intelligent funny and confident all the things you need in an attorney
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01 Nov, 2019 by Steve ded
THIS MR ST.PIEERE IS THE BEST CRIMNAL ATTORNEY IN MACOMB COUNTY BY FAR...DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING U HEAR...GOD FORBID I WAS TO KILL SOME1 BY ACCIDENT I WOULD NOT CALL NO1 BUT CECIL....CECIL KNOWS HIS STUFF I HAVE SENT HIM A FEW CLIENTS AND EACH OFF THEM WERE VERY VERY HAPPY WITH IS WORK...CECIL IS A DAM GOOD ATTORNEY...IN CECIL I TRUST WITH MY LIFE...…..
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07 Jul, 2017 by Anonymous
I paid this guy a lot of money. $1500 to retain him for a matter that I was only questioned on but not charged with, yet withoit being charged they seized all my money and bank accounts. For a year Cecil did nothing. I tried calling him and he would talk to me for 10 mins, send me a bill for $500. He then told me that if I took a plea deal when I finally got picked up on the warrant he was supposed to warn me about, that I could get some of my things back. $2,000 of my grandmas money and my car. The $30,000 the DEA kept. Never seem it again. I got 7411 because I was eligable and in the end the only charge I had was possession of a roach that the police found during a raid on my friends home. Also he charged me $5,000 total. He never fought for me and just kept making me pay him. Horrible person.
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06 Jan, 2012 by Anonymous
I am still currently a client being jipped out of $1,000 for services he never did. He claims that he has been working on my case for 9 months, which was originally was told it would only take 2-3 months to accomplish this task. I left him several messages on his cell phone and with his secretary. He rarely responds and when he does it's the same response he has been giving you all along. I am very upset with this lawyer and I highly recommend you to look else where for any legal matters.
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05 Jun, 2020 by Lee robinson
This law firm is great.
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05 Aug, 2019 by Anita thomas
NO I LOVE HOWARD LYNDEN AWESOME ATTORNEY
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07 May, 2019 by Pattie russell
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05 Jun, 2020 by Lee robinson
This law firm is great.
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05 Aug, 2019 by Anita thomas
NO I LOVE HOWARD LYNDEN AWESOME ATTORNEY
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30 Jan, 2020 by Anonymous
Hired Sean as my attorney. I cannot get Sean to return calls or answer any of my questions. After talking to some other people who also used him i quickly moved on to another attorney. Sean was an expensive mistake! This guy used to be good to my understanding but has fallen off the wagon over the past few years. This review is not because im mad at Sean, its for people who actually take time to read reviews to help make a decision before hiring.
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11 Mar, 2015 by A. sue
I needed a good attorney for what I am doing to interfere with my ex husband and deflect any drug or murder investigations. Sean does a good job with that. He has helped me to continue to lie about how my ex Bryan is a danger, he helps convince the court of all the things my new husband and I say he did but never really did, and hides them so well that people will continue to believe our lies. He keeps Gerrold's convictions in South Carolina for rape and the sex offender's listings quiet. He does good work toward these things. Ladies, if you love your life and don't want to make a choice between drugs and keeping your kids, hire Sean. He'll keep away drug testing. He's worth it!
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01 Mar, 2015 by Gerrold
I totally recommend Sean. He didn't keep me from my two auto theft felonies, but he's helped me keep from going to jail with my domestic abuse with my former wife, helped me screw my ex wife out of money in my divorce, and hide my child rape charges from everyone in Michigan that I got in South Carolina. He's helping make my new wife look good in court and not have them test her for being high or nothing while she has screwed over and lied about her ex husband Bryan. If you need a cheap lawyer to help you get away with stuff, this guy can lie!
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26 Jul, 2024 by Theresa williams
Mike is very rude all the staff is rude. Asking questions so you can have an understanding pisses then off because they will tell you anything even it’s not true to get you off the phone.
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07 Feb, 2024 by Manuel
Horrible company to work with. Was in a coma for 4 and a half months after a car accident, tried explaining that to them but they still proceeded to sue me. I am now making payments & they decided itd be a great idea to take my taxes. Very little humanity left here, & its going to be nice knowing they wont receive a dime from me or my estate when im dead
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29 Nov, 2023 by Terry robinson
There is a representative that I have spoken to by the name of "Janay". She has been the only person that don't take this job as though she is the owner, she is professional and not out of order. Everyone else is rude, no friendliness, knowing they have the upper hand even if you don't work out the arrangement with them or not they are going to still take you to court, their service fee are extremely high. And, especially "Emily". I can see why the owner still keeps her. They maybe trained to respond with that kind of behavior. I hate even having to call that business.
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13 Mar, 2024 by Anonymous
Hired by a dead beat couple to rip my aging dying mother and step father in a nursing home off. While dying of cancer and totally out of her mind on narcotic pain killers Bear got mother to make a will and sign documents giving the dead beats full power of attorney. Bear also tried securing mother's husband (who was in a nursing home) checks.. Finally the county stepped in. Kicked the dead beats out and paid the nursing home..Once funds were cut off from the dead beats and the heat was on Bear dropped them as clients.
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21 Sep, 2012 by Anonymous
This attorney was hired by my father to handle his estate to be divided by 5 children. I am one of the five. A sibling was executor and seemed to be the only person Mr. Bear represented, and was very slow to make contact when needed. Most phone calls went un-returned. Mr. Bear took over two years to finalize the estate and ignored request by any one other than executor. He also pushed through a signed agreement which had been altered to make corrections to its content before signing, making it NOT a mutual agreement among all parties and ignored any attempts made to amend or void that agreement based on that fact. Served only the executor and made things easy for himself. My Dad would be furious, the end result was one beneficiary receiving 60% and the rest divided equally among the other 4. It was suppose to be as equal as possible among all five.
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19 Aug, 2024 by Youssef eweis
My experience with Greenstone Legal Group was excellent and heartwarming. They seemed to have suffered multiple attacks after I started reacting to Capital One's [not known for hiring the best people] harassment campaign. The conflict with Capital One was published on December 31st, 2023. Also on that day, it seemed like the entire past of the US Army had possessed my spirit to chant the best possible cadence my lungs could muster. It's funny how there was a Green Beret on the bus as I joked about calling Capital One and threatening them for abusing their late payment fees immediately after I signed my contract.
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14 Aug, 2024 by David slatten
Please, if you read this-and many other- review stating that Greenstone is terrible and not to get involved, BELIEVE THEM!!! Greenstone Legal Group is nothing but a scam, 100%. Yo make a long story short, we entered into an agreement with them to help negotiate some debt settlement and after 15 months of paying into the program…..nothing. We received several offers to settle or debt from the creditors which we promptly turned over to Greenstone only to have them do nothing. Then we received a summons from court after discovering that one of the creditors was suing us. We turned that promptly over to them also. Their whole spiel is that they are there to protect you from collection efforts while trying to negotiate settlements. Well they failed. Just recently we received a letter from the court stating that the creditor had won their case against us for “failure to contact the court or respond to the summons”. So basically, Greenstone did nothing! They keep about half the money that you send as “payment for services rendered” however, it is plain to see that they don’t actually render anything but lies. We have since canceled our agreement with them. We did get some money back but only about half of what we put in. And we negotiated directly with the creditors and had deals to pay half the original debt in one day. Wonder why Greenstone couldn’t have done that. I implore you to stay far far away from this group. They will tell you nothing but lies and rob you of your money.
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13 Jul, 2024 by Sandra
Don't use these people!! They are con artists with nothing but lies. Didn't do one thing they said they would do. They will ruin your credit.
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23 May, 2018 by Anonymous
Called this attorney to set up an appointment for an issue I'm having with the State of MI. He was extremely rude. He questioned my political beliefs (which had nothing to do with my issue) and apparently made the assumption they did not agree with his, so he promptly hung up the phone!
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16 Dec, 2013 by Anonymous
Called Mr. Manning to ask his advice on a subject. He was extremly arrogent and equally misinformed. I told him that my reguest to have some of my rights restored in Michigan was a common one and I could call him back with the exact statute number. His response was "don't bother".Hung up the phone spoke to another atty.he said no problem we handle about 10 of these cases a year. That's funny Mr. Manning said that there was no such law. Now I don't mind if someone is not aware of something, but to have such a closed mind about something and then to be so arrogent about it was inexcuseable.Don't waste your money on this one, do yourself a favor and find a different lawyer.
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01 Mar, 2024 by Peter
I hired Mark Carl lahti to work on the new mortgage I was about to sign in my building. I met Mark Carl lahti and attorney Borman to discuss the intricate details of the lease I was presented. They assured me they would negotiate a great deal for me. 3 months later they told me to sign what they negotiated and they said it was perfect so I did. It is a year later and I just realized the lease was an adjustable which they never told me it would be by this firm. I am not satisfied and a bit upset on such a critical term. I am paying $1,000 more a month than I thought I would and it will keep going up.
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28 Feb, 2024 by Philip
I met Attorney Lahti to discuss a simple real estate matter. Attorney Borman was at the meeting and many meetings. I paid them their high fee because they promised they could win in court and I would receive a favorable ruling. Nothing could be farther from the truth . The representation I received was weak and the arguments presented in court were not very good. I lost my case and I would not use this firm again
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28 Nov, 2012 by Michelle
I have extensive experience doing both cross cultural research and business. Without hesitation I would say Craig Aronoff is the most unprofessional individual I have ever conducted business with. The case I brought Craig Aronoff was a case for my 90 year old grandfather who has been in critical condition fighting cancer. After having my grandfather sign a contract with Aronoff & Linnell PLLC I was propositioned by a friend of Craig Aronoff who is substantially older than me. Upon rejection of Craig Aronoff ‘s friend’s proposition, Craig Aronoff passive aggressively attempted to take vengeance on me by completely ignoring all phone calls and emails in my grandfather’s interest. Craig Aronoff‘s choice to not honor a contractual agreement my grandfather signed is reprehensible. However, this accurately represents the character and professional standard that Craig Aronoff and the Aronoff & Linnell PLLC firm uphold. Furthermore, this particular case was a simple collection of a judgement that my grandfather had already been awarded. Craig Aronoff choosing to jeopardize his professional reputation and not honor an agreement over such a straightforward case shows a enormous lack of judgement. Finally, taking advantage of someone in such a vulnerable state shows a lack of character, integrity and class. To add insult to injury, while meeting with a client at a local establishment, him and a group of his middle-aged friends stumbled into the facility completely inebriated. They harassed me with underhanded comments that I completely ignored. Even though their harassing comments pushed me to leave the establishment they escalated their harassment to shouting across the facility as I was departing. I STRONGLY caution anyone from even considering doing business with Craig Aronoff and Aronoff & Linnell PLLC. There are far too many good law firms and good attorneys out there for anyone to even consider even interviewing or meeting with anyone from the Aronoff & Linnell PLLC firm.
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26 May, 2010 by Anonymous
I contacted Mr. Arononoff regarding a short sale of my home. He was helpful in talking to me a bit about the process and directed me to the firm's website to download their short sale document package. After completing all documentation, I then sent an e-mail back with the documentation asking to contact me with next steps. 5 days went by without a response so I called a left a voicemail and got no response. I waited another 2 days, called and left a message with the receptionist and got no response.
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12 Mar, 2017 by John
After contacting her for a consultation on workmans comp I decided to give her her $2,000 retainer fee. We agreed upon a $5,000 fee for her services IF it had to go to trial and not settled outside of court. Within the first 2 weeks of her being on the case nothing was done. She was supposed to fax me a copy of the terms and agreements upon me retaining her but didnt, only gave me a receipt of payment. After 3 1/2 weeks and her still not filing my complaint or proper paperwork I ended up having to talk to another attorney and retain him. I will be filing a civil lawsuit against Kathleen for my retainer fee back. Do not recommend her for any type of professional work
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24 Feb, 2017 by Anonymous
Not only was she unprofessional but it seemed as though her motives were to benefit herself financially. Worst lawyer I've ever consulted with!
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