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26 Jan, 2019 by Anonymous
I hired him and he wrote letters but did not speak to anyone. He did not convey a clear plan. He promised to call next week but when I called his office he was out of town! He was slow to return emails. I switched to another attorney who is an excellent attorney with trusts and wills.
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15 Aug, 2013 by Leonard
John has the HIGHEST professional stantdars and his knowledge of the law makes him the ideal attorney
I would recommend John at anyone who wants the finest representation or best legao advice
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04 Aug, 2024 by Maria de leon
Ruth is an amazing lawyer who is knowledgeable, compassionate, and goes above and beyond for her clients. She worked long after hours to ensure she settled my case. I am truly grateful for her!
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03 Aug, 2024 by Peguy
I hired her to handle my car accident case in 2019. In January 2021 due to the Covid situation I had to move from Florida to another state. I called and told her about the moving, the new address but same phone number. Guess what. she never called me , never responded my calls and texts no communications at all. Each time I called her office I left her messages said I wanted to know about my case. She never got back to me. In July Last year I went to Florida to talk her about the office closed always. Finally, I used another phone number and called her she answered because she didn’t know if it was me.
She told me the insurance made her an Ofer if she could accept it or fight for more. I told to her just take it . because I don’t want to deal with her she not professional ,tired of her that’s why . She said ok she will take it ! Since that day she never answered my calls and texts. We are going to make a complaint against her next week. I will give you an update guys.
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27 Mar, 2024 by Anonymous
I strongly advise against hiring Ruth D Orange as your lawyer.
I engaged her services for my divorce and auto accident, both occurring within a month of each other in the summer of 2021. Regrettably, her performance was severely lacking. Despite initial impressions, she failed to fulfill her duties, resulting in significant financial losses on my part.
Communication was a major issue; she frequently ignored my attempts to contact her, and I even came close to missing court dates because of her lack of responsiveness. In the case of my auto accident, she strung me along for three years, falsely claiming that my case was pending while never actually filing a lawsuit despite my injuries.
Despite lodging complaints with the Florida Bar, no meaningful action has been taken. It's concerning to see someone like her continue to practice law without accountability.
I've spoken with other individuals who have had similar experiences with her, further confirming my concerns. Despite my efforts to seek redress, I've been unable to find resolution due to the perceived lack of seriousness by the Florida Bar.
Please, for your own sake, seek legal representation elsewhere. Ruth D Orange's behavior, including making false statements and neglecting her duties, is unacceptable.
Exercise caution and explore other options for legal assistance.
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06 Nov, 2014 by George
I have been Lombardi's client for estate planning for 10 years and find her work to be excellent and her and her assistant Joann very good very responsive.
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04 May, 2013 by Marcello
Found her name in a local advertisement and called her office. Apparently there is no assistant or the person doesn't return phone calls. Had to call three more times before receiving a call back. She quoted me a large amount to change some estate documents - another attorney was half the price. When confronted with the price diferential she said, fine I am not the cheapest and never offered to assist with a discount.
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21 Jul, 2012 by Wiggins
Expensive, didn't listen to our needs. More interested in ensuring charges were correct, erred on her side, then on our Estate. Go elsewhere.
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20 Aug, 2023 by Anonymous
I was going through a dependency case with my attorney and my child the attorney that was given was Aldo Ruccio he failed to comply with procedures follow rules and he failed me and my family he used our Paint and our broken family to financially gain $10,000 from the government I filed a petition against his motion to the court requesting the money and it wasn’t done properly so nothing ever occurred and he got paid but this is just the beginning if he’s done you wrongContact me at 239-398-4339 I have something in the works
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09 Jun, 2023 by Anonymous
He was court ordered to be my underaged daughter's attorney. She died. He charged money to learn my daughter died. It is actually on the bill saying the cost to learn this. Disgusting!
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24 Feb, 2022 by Patrick
In October 2019 I was falsely accused of a crime that never occurred. In October 2021 I was falsely convicted of that “crime“ due to the abhorrent representation of Mark Alderuccio.
This man sat on every piece of information I gave him. Every piece of exculpatory evidence, every defense strategy, and let every single lie told about me at the trial go unchallenged.
The sheriff falsified the police report from top to bottom, vilifying me and impugning my character in every way imaginable, asserting that I confessed to this woman’s accusations.
I wanted to have a jury trial, but Mr. Alderuccio was concerned that they may believe the lies that were being told about me. Instead…
“You couldn’t have a better judge for a bench trial“ he said to me. Giving me example after example about just how fair minded this judge was, explaining how he’s worked with him since the 90’s — KNOWING full well that “burden of proof“ and “reasonable doubt” don’t even factor in at a bench trial, it all comes down to whoever the judge wants believe.
In this case an immigrant from Honduras who “hardly speaks any English“ or a man who admitted to angrily yelling at her for disturbingly him. Who sounds more likable already?
I didn’t know any better, I trusted him, I agreed. I couldn’t have known that I’d just hung myself.
The sheriff perjured himself on the stand by repeating what he said in the report, that I had admitted to what I was being accused of.
Instead of rebutting the sheriffs lie by submitting my 911 call incident detail report which states:
1. “Patrick Fitzgerald… Someone made a false police report about him and he wants to file a report about the report”
Mr. Alderuccio Left me to spring it on the judge minutes before the end of the trial, at which point he cried out to the prosecution “Now how am I supposed to believe that?”
I was told to return to my seat. I asked Mr. Alderuccio If he submitted that 911 detail report (proving that what I just said on the stand was the true) and he said excitedly “I didn’t have to because you just told him!”
As though ANY judge would consider the word of an accused criminal over an official document.
The most critical piece of information that needed to be communicated to that judge was the fact that I have denied that anything even happened from the beginning. Mark Alderuccio had proof of that and sat on it.
Making matters worse, he made two incriminating motions to dismiss. Arguing that because the sheriff had to wake me, I couldn’t have been aware of a crime, so the case should be dismissed.
His voice was cracking both times, he didn’t believe the words coming out of his mouth, and for good reason. Without challenging the judges believe that a crime had occurred, he was arguing in effect that I had committed the crime, forgot about after the fact, and that’s why the charges should be dismissed.
Thanks to Mr. Alderuccio, the judge had no other option but to conclude that everything he already believed to be true, was indeed true and convicted me.
I saw Mark Alderuccio a week later in his office to ask if there was still time to appeal, something he never even told me was an option.
After defending the prosecution and judge as having gone into the trial with an open mind, I attempted to ask a question about the trial to which he angrily cut me off, exclaiming “You were convicted! you can’t second-guess every little thing after the fact!“
Every “little” thing.
I have no doubt that man fully expected me to be carted off to jail that day to have nothing more to do with me as he has treated me with utter contempt ever since.
These are just a scant few examples, the list goes on and on and on.
How many other peoples lives has this man ruined, and how many more will he?
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21 Jun, 2017 by Anonymous
As another review has pointed out, Mrs. Hall is not the most reliable and professional attorney I have ever worked with. Key deadlines are missed. Her work is sloppy as evidenced by typo-ridden drafts. Sometimes weeks pass before she responds to a message. She might be good if you're an important enough client, but I experienced the worst of her qualities.
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20 Sep, 2013 by Ann
Met with Ms. Hall and paid a hefty retainer, from there her unprofessional, disorganized and irresponsive conduct took center stage. She failed to return calls, overcharged, didn't file documents on time and didn't communicate with her Client in a timely manner. There are not only better attorneys in Naples, she doesn't even live in Naples, let alone Collier County.
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09 Aug, 2024 by Anonymous
The guy is one of the rudest people I have ever interacted with in life. His demeanor is atrocious. He is insulting, rude, and overall just a very unpleasant person to talk with. I would go elsewhere, to be honest, anywhere else.
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18 Jul, 2023 by Anonymous
I had an appointment with him at 9:30. The lady at the reception had no clue and she said he wasn’t there that she was going to call him. I waited and she said he wasn’t answering so I left and said if he was going to be late I didn’t want to use him.
He then left me a voicemail that he was 3 minutes late and I guess it was too much for me and good luck finding another lawyer. How unprofessional and rude
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29 Oct, 2021 by Vincent
What’s he point in asking a would be client to Bring All your evidence.
He didn’t want to look at anything.
What a F**king waist of time.
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28 Oct, 2021 by Anonymous
HORRIBLE MAN …. His employees are awful and just everything to do with them is bad business!They do not care about you or anything. All they care about is the money and nothing else. Taken advantage of mentally disabled people and using their money . They do not give 2 craps about what mentally disabled people need or what is good for them. They simply just want to take their money and use it for them self and leave them without any personal allowance. They are doing very sneaky stuff with group homes in Naples and the word is going around. Something needs to be done and quickly before things get even worse.
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24 Apr, 2015 by Anonymous
This gentleman was involved in the obfuscation of knowledge of estate money from myself and my family, until the death of my beloved relative. When I called him on it and the fact that the trust company and others had claimed the funds for themselves he replied...I'm paraphrasing..." Oh now you care about your family member all of a sudden" This was right after she died and far from the truth.
From what I understand either he and or his cohorts got away with approx. $100,000 of my families' money, knowing that I would not be able to cover attorney fees and travel expenses in order to claim my inheritance.
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07 Oct, 2021 by Anonymous
Terrible attorney. Not trustworthy at all. I would highly detract from using her for any and all matters.
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21 Jul, 2009 by Anonymous
BEWARE! This man is corrupt, totally uninformed of the law, does not have any sense of ethics or confidentiality, backstabbing, incompetent and inept, among many, many other forms of breeching a client's trust and his own Bar oath. Let me begin by stating that my husband and I had been married nearly 20 years when this all occurred.
He did our estate planning and when my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and our documents came into play as far as guardianship, powers of attorney, etc., every single document was either done completely wrong, both legally and morally, did not convey the correct points as we had discussed with him and was so incorrectly written that things went to court and continue to this day to be in court.
Yes, he sent the documents to us for review, knowing that we were leaving for Africa within days and wanted them to be in place before we left. I quickly reviewed them and we signed them.
Upon our return we discussed and decided to make some minor changes to the Trust and Will of my husband, with written authorization for him to do so from his neurologist stating that he was not incompetent to do so.
After making an appointment with Stinziano to do so, he took it upon himself to phone one of our financial advisers, who then phoned a 'friend' of the family, who then phoned my husband's daughters and their husbands to advise them of our appointment and intent to make changes. He even phoned another attorney that we had previously used for real estate, employer relations, etc., who then admittedly discussed our entire estate file with others in the community!
As a result, we found ourselves in the midst of a lawsuit filed by my stepdaughters for guardianship of the assets. For three years we were involved in this lawsuit with my stepchildren attempting to take control of our assets, costing us a fortune in attorney fees, psychologists, doctors & mediators
My husband eventually passed with the disease and once again we (I) found myself in such a huge mess due to his incompetence that the remaining estate continues to be sucked away by attorney's, trustees (wrongly put into place), and bad business decisions.
I took the documents that were written by him to three attorneys and was told by eac h that they were a joke and that they never should have been written like that. He managed to take the wishes that we told him to include and, after giving us completely WRONG definitions of some of the instruments, (i.e. generation skipping trusts) he wrote what we THOUGHT covered our requirements but which in actuality did not even come close to what he had explained to us nor how he had explained the document worked. Thus, we had no control over the guardianship and no control of ANYTHING that was supposed to have been done.
He made mistakes involving inheiritances by other individuals causing them to have to sign disclaimers and he agreed that he would make them right himself if we did not file complaints, then when asked to do so, said he didn't have to because they had already signed the disclaimers.
If there were negative stars in this rating scheme, he would receive as low as it goes from me. I still cannot believe how totally incompetent this man is to practice estate planning. In ending this, I would also like to state that AT NO TIME DID THIS SO CALLED ATTORNEY STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND ADMIT THAT HE HAD DONE WRONG OR THAT THE DOCUMENTS WERE NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT THEY WERE OR THAT HE HAD EXPLAINED LEGAL ITEMS TO US WRONGLY OR OFFER TO PRODUCE NOTES FROM CLIENT CONFERENCES OR ADMIT THAT WHAT HE WAS PUTTING US THROUGH WAS HIS FAULT. CONVERSLY, HE INFERRED THAT I WAS LYING ABOUT WHAT WE HAD REQUESTED HIM TO DO AND HOW THE DOCUMENTS WERE INTENDED TO BE INTERPRETTED. THE DOCUMENTS, IN FACT, WERE LEFT TO INTERPRETATION BY OTHERS NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN OUR PRIVATE BUSINESS. The resulting lawsuits against us merely served to speed the Alzheimer's symptoms and thus the death of my husband leaving me without the intended inheiritance from my husband and continuing legal fees to this day.
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22 Mar, 2024 by Anonymous
This man moves like a snail and if he know the opposing counsel he will take weeks to come to a resolution. After he spent two weeks on my case he said we (THE OPPOSING LAWYER) DO NOT AGREE WITH YOU. I said I thought you were my lawyer. He then l called me a F&AM A LIAR. He is a joke. He still refuses to pay me back after one week.
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27 Jul, 2014 by Anonymous
"Hello... Anybody home?" Was constantly going through my mind when setting across the desk from her. Those exact words actually came out of the judges mouth in the court room! She seemed to be on the edge of consciousness every time I laid eyes on her... Medically induced? I though so... either way I would not recommend to my worst enemy! I would have replaced her but the case was very weak and I though it would eventually be thrown out.
I received ABSOLUTELY no help from Beller in the court room, did my best to be patient and ask my "lawyer" to nip this BS in the but with no help or effort on her part. Eventually the Judge became annoyed with the prosecutors inability to produce his "star witness" for the 3rd hearing in a row so I spoke up and asked about my right to a speedy trial (which was shot down) and asked for to case to be thrown out based on the lack of real evidence / witnesses (which was shot down). Court date was postponed AGAIN! Prosecutor offered an awesome plea bargain which I took out of sheer frustration and lack of confidence in the local legal system. All on a case that in my opinion should have never made it in front of a judge....
Thanks again Ms Georgette...
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07 Apr, 2024 by Anonymous
All he cares about is his stupid dramatics & dragging out a divorce as long as the dollars keep ringing up in his bank account. Win or lose he always wins monetarily!
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18 May, 2023 by Anonymous
Worst attorney you can find , never hire this lady.
Never responds calls or texts , very fishy .. stay away
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15 Dec, 2014 by Andrea
I hired Misbah Farid for my divorce. In 3 months, all she did was file the divorce papers. I had a major issue and called her 16 times to which I got NO return phone call, just a bill for all my calls. I told her I could only afford a certain $$ amount monthly to then which went 6 times the amount I could pay. This attorney cannot be trusted to do what she says she will do. I put my life in her hands and she did absolutely NOTHING!!!!!
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06 Feb, 2016 by Anonymous
I would not recommend hiring Mr. Skrivan for legal assistance. After my father passed away, I was in need of legal guidance with his estate. He never answered my phone calls or replied to my emails. He did not follow through with my instructions and he dismissed my concerns. It has been almost one year and my father's estate has not been distributed. Mr. Skrivan terminated his professional relationship by a letter without explaining why and he kept $2,000. I'm very disappointed in myself because I had trusted him. Do not hire him.
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23 Jul, 2021 by Darrell
Retained this attorney in late February for a March 16 2021 closing. Told there was no problem and all documents were ready to close. It is now July 23 2021 and still no title policy or survey in spite of being emailed on June 1 that they would get me the documents. Went to the office on or about June 8th and was told they would courier documents to my hotel. Have notified both realtors of the deficiency and have contacted Old Republic Title to get their assistance. My problem is that it was a cash transaction so there was not a lender's attorney to protect me against my own attorney. Have filed a complaint with Florida Bar.
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15 Jun, 2024 by Louis herkalo
Not a trustworthy attorney! Be careful and do your due diligence if you decide to use Chris Prices' services!
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