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05 Sep, 2024 by Diane o'neil
I have found Brian Hanlin at Wick & Trautwein to be extremely professional, helpful, and knowledgeable. He is helping me navigate the confusing claims process of a class action case that has been in progress for many years. He participated in a conference call with me and the class action attorneys and has given me the confidence that my claim with get processed correctly. He is also extremely detail oriented and I feel has the capacity and skill set to handle this type of case and would highly recommend him for your legal needs.
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13 Aug, 2024 by Bruce crane
Dealing with Wick Law…best to heed their negative reviews. They seem more “Wick”-ed than helpful as burn through a retainer. We met with them to discuss case only to be told at the END of the meeting we were being charged for it. They said we should be glad they were only charging for one lawyer during the consult since they decided to bring in two lawyers to sit in. Two for the price of one they said laughing at the end. I was not aware in slightest we were paying to tell them our case!
Then took thousands in retainer (not realizing money was drawn monthly even though they were not actively working our case) which continued until just a few hundred left while we were wait on insurance to resolve our claim.
Worst part is when we were trying to move ahead and re-engage (and actually have them pursue action) they sounded interested- then just ignored us - 2 months no reply even after multiple attempts from us to hear back from them.
A professional should at least tell you if they were not wanting to take action further. We would have appreciated that before they drained us of several thousand in retainer draws!
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07 Aug, 2024 by Colin jones
I was referred to Kevin Havelda at Wick & Trautwein by a highly reputable top-tier law firm and I quickly retained him to handle a substantial and complex case involving employment matters and commercial litigation.
Kevin’s quick response, meticulous attention to detail and innovative strategies delivered the results I needed. His advocacy guided me through one of the most challenging and stressful times in my life. I have utmost trust in his counsel and would highly recommend Kevin Havelda and the Wick & Trautwein team to anyone experiencing complex legal issues!
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05 Sep, 2024 by Diane o'neil
I have found Brian Hanlin at Wick & Trautwein to be extremely professional, helpful, and knowledgeable. He is helping me navigate the confusing claims process of a class action case that has been in progress for many years. He participated in a conference call with me and the class action attorneys and has given me the confidence that my claim with get processed correctly. He is also extremely detail oriented and I feel has the capacity and skill set to handle this type of case and would highly recommend him for your legal needs.
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13 Aug, 2024 by Bruce crane
Dealing with Wick Law…best to heed their negative reviews. They seem more “Wick”-ed than helpful as burn through a retainer. We met with them to discuss case only to be told at the END of the meeting we were being charged for it. They said we should be glad they were only charging for one lawyer during the consult since they decided to bring in two lawyers to sit in. Two for the price of one they said laughing at the end. I was not aware in slightest we were paying to tell them our case!
Then took thousands in retainer (not realizing money was drawn monthly even though they were not actively working our case) which continued until just a few hundred left while we were wait on insurance to resolve our claim.
Worst part is when we were trying to move ahead and re-engage (and actually have them pursue action) they sounded interested- then just ignored us - 2 months no reply even after multiple attempts from us to hear back from them.
A professional should at least tell you if they were not wanting to take action further. We would have appreciated that before they drained us of several thousand in retainer draws!
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07 Aug, 2024 by Colin jones
I was referred to Kevin Havelda at Wick & Trautwein by a highly reputable top-tier law firm and I quickly retained him to handle a substantial and complex case involving employment matters and commercial litigation.
Kevin’s quick response, meticulous attention to detail and innovative strategies delivered the results I needed. His advocacy guided me through one of the most challenging and stressful times in my life. I have utmost trust in his counsel and would highly recommend Kevin Havelda and the Wick & Trautwein team to anyone experiencing complex legal issues!
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05 Dec, 2015 by Anonymous
Tom chased our case from the onset. Promise after promise. Wanted our money. He is very short and stocky with Napoleon complex. He treated us with none of the respect the other reviewer noted. Did nothing after we paid him. Now we are fighting for our kids life and getting a new attorney. Go elsewhere for juvenile defense!!!!!!!
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08 Feb, 2014 by Scott
I retained Tom to help me with a criminal matter even though I was an attorney myself. He was very effective and quick in dealing with the matter and got me a very good result. He did so even though I was emotionally a mess at the time. He was unfailingly polite, considerate, and effective. He was absolutely caring and paid attention to the case at all times. I feel like he is a friend as well as an attorney. He is very effective and willing to work hard for a good outcome.
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01 Mar, 2022 by Kiley
Owen Hathaway is by far the most incompetent attorney on earth. He completely screwed up my case and even QUIT BEFORE the case was even over. If you use him you will end up in a worse situation than when you began.
He is the King Of Malpractice and should not be allowed to practice law in my opinion.
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20 May, 2020 by Anonymous
What should have been a simple filing for a small business took months, not because it was at all complicated but because he was "busy." It took multiple emails to get any response and then only a day to actually get the paperwork filed. Meanwhile we were just waiting with everything on hold. Later, when we had a question about our tax filing status, he actually gave us the wrong answer. There are plenty of competent attorneys, Owen Hathaway is not one.
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25 Mar, 2017 by Anonymous
Owen is the man!
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29 Sep, 2022 by Anonymous
Kris helped us with an estate plan and was very helpful and thorough. She knows special needs trusts and helped us understand how to move things into the trust and what to leave out.
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10 Dec, 2020 by Anonymous
This Attorney was very cold,unproffesional, and even lied to me. She created a problem between my family because of her lies and misconduct toward me and my sig. Other.
My father in law had hired her. She milks the client stretching out things in an unecessary way.
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31 Aug, 2023 by Anonymous
Allan has guided me through a divorce and continues to guide me through child-custody agreements. Allan gives you the facts: he does not overpromise or underpromise in terms of what can be accomplished with the court. He is highly skilled at understanding situations and people. I highly recommend Allan to be your divorce/child custody advocate... He is always working for you, and he understands your situation.
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11 Jan, 2023 by Dana
I purchased representation of this law firm of Alexander and Ewart when I was referred to Mr. Ewart's partner, Brooke Alexander for my son's custody case. Mr Ewart on several occasions made decisions against what was told of him to make, made comments to opposing attorney that was contrary to the demands of my son throwing him under the bus on numerous occasions. When he was called out for these bad decisions and indiscretions, he would say he messed up but would then, on each occasion charge fees to explain himself via emails. The final straw was when he was told that his partner, Brooke Alexander would be the only one acceptable to conduct and represent my son in mediation. He would not reply nor acknowledge this demand and was terminated. This firm still owes back fees advanced and kept in trust of approximately $1500.
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16 Aug, 2023 by Alexandra
Russell Connelly is very knowledgeable. He helped me understand the process from start to finish. Russell has a great attitude and was very easy to work. He helped me with a speedy resolution to my case.
Russell, Thank you for all you have done for me in regards to my car accident!
Much appreciated!
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29 Apr, 2022 by Keith
Where do begin, I worked with Russell for over a year when he was at Ring & Associates in Fort Collins Colorado. This was for a car accident. Over the course of an entire year Russell didn't get anything done in my case. He had over 50 different times in which he failed to respond. He put in lackluster effort which reflected in my settlement amount. He never pushed to get more money in my pocket and It took and entire year to reach a settlement. The same exact deal that was presented in the beginning of the process. The only reason I accepted is because I was tired of dealing with his effort. Miss phone calls, missed emails, wouldn't give me updates for months on end. It was very sad to see how little he cared about me as a client. To put the cherry on top, he accepted the settlement in a frozen account left the firm and didn't bother to tell me. The only reason I ever knew is because I emailed 5 separate times to get a response. He finally responded with "Sorry I no longer work there" So he essential took a year to send a settlement that never changed and accepted it into a frozen account. Appreciate all the hard work you did for me.
I highly recommend to any future potential clients to not use Russell, he does not care about his clients.
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25 Oct, 2015 by Anonymous
Our 16 yr old son got into trouble for theft. Turned out he committed 3 felonies. We were, of course, terrified with the prospects of the ramifications for our son. Upon recommendations we contacted Mike. He was immediately available to me on the phone, explained the process to me and was kind enough to ease my mind considerably. He spent a good 15 minutes with me on the phone although I my son was not even yet his client. I have not lost another night's sleep over it. Mike was always available to me. More often than not when I called and spoke to his Paralegal, Lisa, she would either put me through to him immediately or he would call me back promptly. He was available caring and extremely capable throughout the whole procedure. Thank God my son got out of it on Probation and community service, without a record and his future prospects not in ruins because of the stupid decisions of a teenager. You would be doing your child a great service by getting Mike on board with you. I will give him 5 stars only because they don't go up to 100
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08 Jun, 2011 by Anonymous
I hired Mr. Liggett under the impression that I would have an attorney who could stand up to the antics of the aggressive and unreasonable attorney of my ex-spouse, and that he would pay attention to detail and keep me from harm. This was not the case. After convincing me to settle for a ridiculously high monthly maintenance payment and to give up a large portion of my retirement, Mr. Liggett didn't submit paperwork in a timely manner for a QDRO, after which my ex and her attorney filed frivolous, (in my view), contempt of court charges. After putting me off for months, and telling me that we're not in contempt, Mr. Liggett let the case go to court, where he finally suggested settling. When I questioned this, Mr. Liggett threatened to walk out on me during our meeting before the hearing. This behavior was unacceptable, especially since we could have settled months earlier and saved me time, angst, and money. In addition Mr. Liggett overlooked loopholes in my stipulation that left my name on the mortgage of the home awarded to my ex spouse. She failed to pay her mortgage and damaged my credit to the point that I can't qualify for a credit card. After calling him and emailing him several times over several weeks about rectifying this problem with no response, I ended our relationship. Mr. Liggett gave reason in his formal notice of withdrawal as my counsel that "Irreconcilable differences exist between petitioner and counsel." Had he simply called me to let me know what these differences are, I would have listened. Yet he chose not to do this, and I truly feel it was because he was intimidated by the ex's attorney. I can see where Mr. Liggett might be decent if the other side is reasonable. However, if your case is contentious and you need someone to really fight for you, I'd recommend going elsewhere.
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02 Sep, 2021 by Anonymous
My family hired Mr. Wilson to help with disputed personal representation over a family members will. He couldn't keep names, dates, facts straight. He crossed with no pertinent questions, asked no pertinent questions of us in court. He caused us to lose the trial and cost a lot of money. I would never recommend him to anyone.
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30 Mar, 2016 by Randy haberkon
I was seeking an attorney that was experienced in the dissolution of a business. Mr. Wilson presented himself as a non-confrontational. Turns out, he was non-conformational with everyone but me. Mr. Wilson provided poor almost non-exist legal advice. This ended up costing more than ½ of my business. He made agreements with the defenses attorney and did not consult with me. I lost buildings, equipment and money without as much as a courtesy call. He told me that I was legally entitled to ½ of the business and that we would without issue receive at least that. During negotiations with the defendant Mr. Wilson sent emails to the defense that I had written to him without as much changing a word. He would only communicate through email, I repeatedly requested a face to face strategy session, but he was never available. When I showed up for a case management meeting, he did not even recognize me. My lawsuit was unnecessarily drug out by Mr. Wilson’s lack of legal knowledge and advice, poor communication and lack of focus on my case. When I hired Mr. Wilson, I was told I would get ½ of a business that I rightfully owned, and as it turned out a good portion of that was lost to poor negotiations and give a ways without my knowledge and consent.
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07 Jan, 2016 by Anonymous
You seek an attorney for legal consul, experience and professional advice. In our experience Mr. Wilson provided poor representation and costly incorrect legal advice. In my opinion, he did not put enough time into our case which cost our company a great deal of money. He told us our tennent was in our facility illegally and said our key witness would give us an 80% chance of success. The problem was he did not speak with our key witness until 10 minutes prior to court as was not prepared. It was very evident that if he had spoken with the key witness earlier, he should have know our tenant was in fact in our facility legally and the opposing counsel brought this our very successfully. In addition Mr. Wilson underestimated his time and cost on 3 separate instances by as much a 100%. So every time he told us 3-4 hours of attorney fees, it was 6-8. He also did not inform us that if we lost the case we would be liable for our tenants attorney fees which we again very costly. All in all this was not a good experience and I feel Mr. Wilson did not provide experience, legal knowledge and dedicated time needed as evident by poor results and very costly fees. I quote Mr. Wilson when he told us, "You want them out, I'll get them out". The judge said no. And I paid a high price for poor legal representation.
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28 Jul, 2023 by Anonymous
Horrible representation. He did nothing for me. He waited to see what my ex offered and told me to acceot it all because it was all "standard". I had no way to know. I'd never been divorced before. I was married for 14 years and accepted maintenance for only 3 years, on his advice, because "it was standard". We never countered anything. He never tried! Later I learned that standard is at least half of the length of the marriage. I hadn't worked for the last 10 years of marriage because I was raising the kids and this short period of maintenance was impossible to ever dig out of.
Ironically, many years later I married someone who also used Dan Michaels as his divorce attorney when he divorced his first wife and his experience was the exact same. Dan never did anything, waited until the opposing side made an offer and just said "accept it all because it's standard". It wasn't at all. He's lazy, expensive and destructive.
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27 Sep, 2019 by Anonymous
DId not advise me well and did not represent me in court well. Opposing side ate me alive. Imputed too high a wage to my support and left me with an impossible well of back support I may never dig out of. Still do not have shared custody of my kids. He never verified ex's salary, financials or claims of child care costs. Disastrous outcome for me.
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23 Jul, 2014 by Anonymous
This attorney was often very unprofessional arriving at meetings and court proceedings late .He was not timely in returning phone calls and often wold blow me off . Court paperwork was not properly filled out or even filed. Then when questioned or asked for clarification on why he handled things the way he did he often would become rude and defensive.Unfortunately I've had to go back to clean up and complete my case because of improper or incomplete work that was simply disregarded and left. I would not waste my time or money with this particular law office.
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11 Apr, 2011 by David
This attorney over charges for his services. He even keeps billing after you have secured another attorney. I found the paralegal asleep in the lobby one day. The attorney showed up late for hearing in front of judge for my divorce proceeding.
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