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21 Nov, 2020 by Mike fahey
04 Nov, 2017 by Ms navi
Very nice law firm. People are very friendly and warm.
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21 Nov, 2020 by Mike fahey
04 Nov, 2017 by Ms navi
Very nice law firm. People are very friendly and warm.
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21 Nov, 2020 by Mike fahey
04 Nov, 2017 by Ms navi
Very nice law firm. People are very friendly and warm.
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21 Nov, 2020 by Mike fahey
04 Nov, 2017 by Ms navi
Very nice law firm. People are very friendly and warm.
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06 May, 2017 by Anonymous
My case was for an annulment based on fraud and Ms. Wright took it head on. She explained legal strategies in a way that could be understood by someone without law experience and set realistic expectations for the outcome. She readied me for testimony by providing a list of questions and prepared answers to make sure I would remember to include all of the pertinent facts on the stand. It's easy to be nervous and forget, but since I studied her guide, I was able to focus on facts without rambling on a tangent.
Unexpectedly, the judge announced my hearing would be completed on that day when two half-days were scheduled. Ms. Wright and I were blindsided because we expected to have time to prepare for cross examinations. Despite this challenge, she remained focused and on her feet for an entire day and didn't skip a beat. I could hardly keep my eyes open but she improvised, asked all the right questions and kept in the game for 6-1/2 hours. It was a long hard day.
Ms. Wright thinks fast on her feet. She's sharp, strategic, focused, has a great memory and has a winning mindset. As a bonus, she is very easy to work with and maintains friendly professionalism.
The annulment was granted! Ms. Wright made it happen and I am forever grateful that she agreed to represent me. I would refer her to anyone.
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18 Jun, 2013 by Gina
Ms. Wright returned my phone call within a couple of hours of my email from AVVO. Because I could not answer my phone right away, she left her cell phone number for me to return her call. I reached her right away. Although she was on the road, she listened to my concerns and answered all of my questions. She was considerate and knowledgeable. I really appreciated her concern for my case and I will definitely call upon her again.
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06 Jan, 2011 by James
This Attorney would generally not return phone calls and emails. I literally pleaded with her to keep me up to date and informed, because I was so desperate about my legal matters, but she simply ignored my requests, except for a few isolated times. Once I fired her, she gave me a final bill, which was more expensive than I expected.
During our initial one hour consultation, which I was charged for, she did not even have the court order paperwork printed out, which I sent to her prior to the meeting. So she had to take 5-8 minutes and print it out as I sat there waiting; and then she had to read it over. I was disappointed that she was not prepared for the meeting.
By far the worst part was that this Attorney acknowledged that I am due the remainder of the retainer, but the she stopped communicating with me. She provided me with the invoice, which even stated that she still owes me, but she simply ignored all my communication attempts, including, to answer my phone calls, emails, and even personal messages left with the receptionist in her office.
By the way, the Wright Law Firm, operated by Marcia Wright, has only one Attorney actively working there, which is Ms Wright herself. I was so hurt that she would refuse to give me the several hundred dollars back, since it was mid November, and Christmas was approaching. I could have used the money. It is now January and still not a peep from her.
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08 May, 2021 by Anonymous
Bill was professional in his approach about stages of a trademark litigation and successfully filed a lawsuit and subpoena, but like many big firm lawyers his priority is billing (at a high hourly rate) and spent time on the case that was not necessary, as well as other suggestions about the case like giving document review to junior attorneys that was not the most cost-efficient for the client . He wrote a memorandum about the case and billed several hours for it even though the client did not ask for it. Ultimately while the case was still moving forward, the client could not afford his fees anymore and had to replace attorneys
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16 Oct, 2011 by Anonymous
Tricky and decptive. Once tried to mail business letter to my client by using her home address that twice failed to include the fact that she represented us as attorney. This caused an unnecessary misunderstanding with my client. What should she have done? Utilized her business mailing attorney name/address for full disclosure instead of the unnecessary disception. My advice: use another attorney near DC.
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10 Jan, 2019 by Anonymous
I hired Jhonda for my child custody case against my ex who has numerous legal infractions as well as other children whom she has lost custody of. Jhonda rarely returned my calls. I did FOIA requests on my ex and found large amounts of info for my case. When I asked Jhonda to subpoena the info she said she would. When time came for the preliminary case I had not been able to reach her on the phone for over a week. When I finally did she had done nothing to pull the info needed for the case and claimed "i'll just question her about the infractions"!!!!! I contacted her law office and had my case transferred to another lawyer. If I had stayed with Jhonda I have no idea if I would have gotten custody or not.
I highly recommend you go elsewhere. Jhonda Scott will not give you the defense you need.
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09 Nov, 2014 by Anonymous
I hired Johnda Scott for an increase in child support case that was clearly supported by the DCS. She arranged for a lesser child support amount and a better deal in medical reimbursement for my ex-husband WITHOUT my knowledge prior to court. I did not get the increase that was calculated and now I'm out $500 a year for medical that my ex doesn't have to pay. And my ex didn't even have an attorney!!! She refuses to have any contact with me now.
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31 Jan, 2014 by Anonymous
I hired Ms. Scott to represent me for two cases. She did not show up at either of my court dates. When she did show up she gave the judge a personal letter that I wrote to her (meaning she broke attorney-client privilege). The judge reprimanded me for the letter, not her, and I ended up serving 6 months in jail for the letter along with the reason why I was in court. She did not defend me at all in court and did not do anything she said she would do for me, except bill me five times the amount she estimated. I would not hire her again or recommend her to any family or friends.
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20 Mar, 2024 by Denisebrooks2
This lawyer will pass you around to other lawyers in this law firm. I witnessed Lawyers leave this practice frequently while my case was being passed around. Many errors were entered in my filed complaint and never amended. Important issues were omitted from the complaint. Important documents were never requested through interrogatories. The case was not won. I returned to work to the face same work environment without any protection from this attorney.
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29 May, 2023 by Anonymous
Our case was not handled thoughtfully or proactively. Each time I made a request for simple action, this team did not take action and did not make any negotiations that would benefit us in our case. Terribly disappointing to go through an ordeal and also to work with an ineffective lawyer. Do not recommend to anyone.
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24 Apr, 2021 by Betty
He was appointed by the state of VA to take care of my brother's affairs. The reason for this is my brother stopped all contact with the family back in the 70s. I found out about my brother's death about 2 months after he died, so I sent away for his death certificate. My bother had a military funeral. Even though Mr. Labowitz had my brother's discharge be had corporal placed on the head stone, when in fact he was a Staff Sargent. After I received the death certificate contacted Mr. Labowitz and he sent me some of my brother's stuff among the person property was my bother's discharge papers, so I was able to contact Quantico National Cemetery and get the correct title placed on his stone. I had to contact Mr. Lebowitz again to ask for the flag that was used for my brother's funeral, his response was "Didn't think you wanted that" Along with the flag I was also sent his birth certificate which had our parent's name listed. The death certificate said parents unknown. I wrote to the state of VA to add their names and was told that that could only be done buy a court order. I wrote Mr. Labowitz and asked why he didn't provide the parents information. His response was "I do not believe that I have the responsibility to add your parents’ names to the certificate simply because we had the birth certificate and the person on my staff who provided the information to the funeral home did not connect the two documents." He also suggested I hire a lawyer who can do this for $1600.
So he thinks I should pay $1600 for something he neglected to do.
What ever the state paid him it was too much.
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20 Mar, 2016 by Barry
We lived in England for the duration of our dealings with Mr K E Labowitz of Dingman Labowitz PC, Alexandria, VA which hindered communication somewhat but shouldn't have been a problem with a dedicated counsel.
Mr Labowitz. had been engaged by the executor of a will as the trustee of a testamentary trust left to our infant son: “to pay for his future university education”.
It was a sad, bad experience for us: Mr Labowitz oversaw a loss in wealth of ~63% and his failure to perform his duties as per the published directives has left a lot of questions.
For starters, the lawyer-client relationship begins with a discussion of fees, yet Mr Labowitz never discussed his fees with us even though the Virginia Bar has published instructions on this subject.
The lawyer's fee shall be adequately explained to the client. When the lawyer has not regularly represented the client, the amount, basis or rate of the fee shall be communicated to the client, preferably in writing, before or within a reasonable time after commencing the representation.
Amongst a vast (sic) amount of correspondence between Mr Labowitz, the Virginia Bar, and me, but completely out of the blue, Mr Labowitz averred that he had discussed his fees with me via a phone call. (This would have required an international call involving a 5 hour local time difference.) Sending a document via email or mail would have been more efficient and would have provided hardcopy reference material.
Even more worrying is the fact that I have never spoken to Mr Labowitz. (It is not simply the case that I have forgotten the conversation he refers to. People like us don’t receive calls from American attorneys and it would have been a memorable event.) Mr Labowitz may have been confusing me with another of his international clients. Nevertheless I asked him to check his records for the call details. He declined but the fact remains that we never knew what fees were deducted from the trust.
The VA Bar saw no need to query the differences between our versions, accepting the statement of their member.
Considering its stated purpose the trust appeared a natural candidate for investing in safe, long-term instruments for the 15 years of its lifetime yet it matured with a loss of ~63%, (down from $114k to $43K). We cannot determine how this loss came about because we never received monthly statements from the trustee or the account manager at Wells Fargo despite several requests for them over the years.
We were also unable to get answers about tax paid (even though the trust never turned a profit) as well as several other things usually of interest to an owner of managed investments.
Mr Labowitz moved the trust to a different financial institution for its final year. He never told us about the move and when we found out he would not explain why he made it. It made no sense considering the trust was severely depleted.
I made a formal complaint to the VA Bar which resisted accepting it but eventually put it on the docket and he was exonerated; things were recorded which simply hadn't happened.
This was very disappointing; all the research I had done was simply ignored.
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05 May, 2021 by Ms. b
I find this attorney, Shirley A. Norman-Taylor extremely unethical. She was appointed to me, I contacted her, shared details about my case that if used against me could be detrimental to the outcome of my situation.
She stated she had no time to take on new cases, I told her I would wait until she could, instead she took my-out-of-state estranged brother as a client who is opposing me on a family matter.
My entire family will not speak to my brother and his girlfriend who are out to financially gain out of a pandemic crises I found myself in.
This attorney took them on as new clients completely throwing me under the bus. Family lawyers are already shady characters, why choose this dishonest one? She holds no loyalty and is lacking with integrity and is far from trust-worthy. I’ve asked her to remove herself in form of email, attorneys have asked her to remove herself and she refuses.
Save yourself the future horror I’m about to face in court. I filed a bar complaint on her this morning. She won’t be able to erase that. If you need further details or would like to share your experience please contact me...
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05 May, 2021 by B. a.m
This attorney was appointed to me. I spoke to her about my case, later she comes to me saying she has no time to take on new cases, but decides to take on my opposing party who happens to be my estranged brother and his money seeking girlfriend.. These are people no one in my family associates with for obvious reasons. They are around to financially gain from our pandemic crises. I told Shirley Norman-Taylor things that she could use against me. I find her highly unethical, an opportunist who will throw her own clients under the bus. Most family attorneys are already shady characters to begin with why hire one you already know has a track record of disloyalty. I filed a complaint on her this morning with the Virgina bar.
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10 Dec, 2017 by Anonymous
I retained David Fiske to protect my interests and enforce a settlement agreement, requiring a special master to maximize the redevelopment value of property prior to marketing it. Mr. Fiske refused to ask for a hearing to address violations of the agreement, he refused to withdraw and I was prohibited by the magistrate judge from replacing him. Mr. Fiske was attributed with making a false report that the zoning was going to expire to hasten the sale of the property below value. Mr. Fiske false told the special master I was in favor of selling the property without attempting to maximize value. I lost millions and still have not received what the property sold for because the court ordered me to release Mr. Fiske prior to disbursing my money, Mr. Fikse violated Rule of Professional Responsibility 1.8 accepting the protection of its orders.
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21 Feb, 2016 by Anonymous
I retained David Fiske after settlement of a lawsuit brought to dissolve a partnership. I gave Fiske specific instructions his only task was to represent me when a Special Master made his recommendations to the court about what to do with the Partnership property. The Mediation judge promised to release the attorneys twice but the person appointed the Special Master decided to force me to retain Fiske to work for him at my expense. He told Fiske as long as he and the opposing counsel agreed, he would allow them to manage the business. This meant Fiske was on a cash cow with more incentive to listen to the opposing counsel than to me.
The agreement allowed the Master to "hire professions, TO BE PAID BY THE PARTNERSHIP". Fiske ignored my requests to ask for a hearing with the judge in charge of overseeing the agreement to address this as well as other violations of the agreement. As NONE of the attorneys were paid for by the partnership, none of them had a duty of loyalty or care to the partnership.
One of the opposing counsel represents a limited partner who was the previous tenant of the property. He was ruled economically antagonistic to the partnership by the Supreme Court of VA because of his lawsuits and repeatedly expressed intent to get control of the partnership property. Since settlement he has made three offers to buy the property and his business partners interested in developing the property also make offers. The property is in the revitalization district in Springfield, and the supervisor of planning for Fairfax said he would allow re-zoning and plan amendments to double or even triple the FAR, which would greatly increase the value. The Master was supposed to pursue this but he and his crew of attorneys never did and Fiske would not "remind them".
I gave Fiske keys to the buildings as well as photographs of damages the tenant was responsible for and emails concerning EPA remediation. Fiske did not deliver these to the Master. The Plaintiff's attorney was put in charge of getting the appraisal and failed to get the contract signed for several weeks. Then he went on vacation and no one provided keys to the appraiser so the report was delayed for months. The Plaintiff's attorney also ordered the appraisal for it's lowest value and refused to get leasing values as required by the agreement. I was not permitted to pay to get the additional information required by the agreement. Ignoring my instructions not to apply for bank loans without the appraisal, Fiske was turned down by the banks. Now the partnership is bankrupt and unable to pay bills and taxes. They finally got a loan but the amount they secured would only cover their fees (if they abided by the agreement) for two weeks. The partnership property will never realize it's full potential value.
I fired Fiske after I got his first bill for ten thousand dollars for a little over two weeks. I refused to communicate with him but he continues to "work for me". The Plaintiff sent an email to the Master congratulating him on the progress being made and reminding everyone they would be first in line to be paid when the property is sold.
The Master decided to have a "mini trial" in April, eight months after settlement, to decide if the Limited partner, who was also the previous tenant of the property, is responsible for damages to the property. There is a provision in the agreement that the parties release claims and counter claims they have brought or could have brought against each other.
When the Limited partner made his last offer, which was 3.7 million dollars below the appraised value and the other defendant and I rejected it, his attorney decided he was going to depose us. I was served a subpoena for a lawsuit the limited party was not a party in, a lawsuit that was supposed to have been settled. I am being denied representation of my choice, which is a violation of my constitutional rights.
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07 Dec, 2023 by Tadeusz nida and wanda nida
Does not help at all, does not forward essential information that can save great encyclopedia that belongs to the world, also to him to his client and in this case it is turbify webside server provider. Turbify aka Aabaco Small Bussiness LLC aka Infinite Computer Solutions company has akk sirts criminal connections and only has one two star reviews out of of 100s of one stars on google and other review sites... Machado also has attitude problems and disrespcts people's time, money and efforts they spent on faxes, letters, emails to him... SO HE IS HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
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25 Sep, 2014 by Anonymous
Mr. McCarthy doesn't review or handle his cases with judicial care. He simply recommends plea deals or to accept ones fate, regardless of whether you happen to be innocent. More than 8 years have passed and I am still dealing with the ramifications of the work he did not do. I'm currently in the mist of another legal fight to have all his mistakes corrected.
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05 Aug, 2016 by Jake
Alan helped me with my bank fraud case. It lists it as one of his specialties on his website, but there is something EVERYONE should know, regardless of the area he practices in...
Alan Yamamoto is a SETTLEMENT LAWYER, meaning that he will not fight for your behalf, but indeed go the path with the least amount of resistance in order for your case to be settled. If you are trying to fight and battle your way out of your case, Alan is not for you.
On too many occasions throughout our entire case, he recommended so many options indicating it would reduce sentence time and it did the complete opposite. For example, he told us to disclose all of the files to the attorney and it backfired on us, only increasing the sentence time. On another example, he told us to accept the terminology by being the 'organizer' of a case in order to reduce sentence time, and now a new law passed and because we indicated we were the 'organizer' the sentence time cannot be reduced. These are just two small examples of other things that he has stated, but the opposite happened. We were too far into the case to switch lawyers so unfortunately we were stuck with Mr. Yamamoto.
I WOULD NOT recommend Yamamoto, unless all you want is a settlement lawyer. One last thing to mention is that even at the trial, he WAS NOT PREPARED. His thoughts and phrases were all jumbled and they were not organized at all. This was SUPER FRUSTRATING since we paid tens of thousands of dollars to him and his company and he finishes his poor service with this. Honestly, I felt I could have represented the family member better than he did. I was absolutely appalled. Go find yourself another lawyer.
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27 Feb, 2024 by Anonymous
Susan was hired by the company that unjustly fired and assaulted me. She hung up the phone on me multiple times, told me to "not call about marriage problems" and was extremely unprofessional. I would not recommend Susan for any termination related issue.
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25 Jan, 2022 by Anonymous
Mr Daniel Mesghenna Berhane contacted me in 2019 stating that he was was lawyer because I was in the rear with child support. I’m not on child support anymore and wasn’t at the time I just owed back child support. Was he practicing at the time. Just curious
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02 Oct, 2013 by Anonymous
He told me ten to twelve things that were completely wrong which ultimately let to my indictment. I lied and embarrassed both himself and I in court before I fired him. Waste of 15 grand
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