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07 Sep, 2012 by Anonymous
Attorney came across as arrogant, untrusting and unwilling to believe me. Had too much stock in his own experience and didn't do enough listening. Attitude was poor and I never felt he had a stake in my success. A waste of time and money.
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19 Feb, 2015 by Anonymous
Takes the information and crawls into a dark corner and disappears. And then follows up inquries with sarcastic undertones in her replies. Doesnt follow up and acts as if she expects you to read her mind. I think she could do great but is in with a horrible firm -cordell cordell. Dont waste your money. Get experienced attorneys Who look out for your interest and consider whatvyou are paying them no matter how green behind the ears the Are....thanks for nothing.
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24 Oct, 2018 by Anonymous
My life was falling apart and she was to be filing my divorce. She gave me all these high numbers id be getting from ex-spouse. I had to call and/or email about 20 times to just get an answer or action. Suddenly with no warning she just says she has too much and drops my case. Did not give my money back or anything. It was horrific. She just disappeared.
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14 Sep, 2018 by Anonymous
I brought Britta on to represent me in an custody case and I quickly realized she absolutely sucked at communication. From my experience, she does not know much about the fields of law she specializes in like child custody and family law. I believe when someone hires an attorney, that they should be able to trust that attorney to do their job properly and to COMMUNICATE. But Britta did not do either, which resulted in me looking for different/better counsel to handle my case.
I honestly don't know how or why shes still allowed to practice law
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05 Feb, 2018 by Anonymous
Britta failed to communicate, blatantly lied about filing documents requested from her by the judge on my behalf, missed filing deadlines, and disappeared. Her failure to submit documents cost me custody of my children. In the order handed down by the judge it states that Britta never submitted findings of facts and conclusion of law, or financial information or a proposed parenting plan. Just mediocre all across the board.
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27 May, 2014 by Anonymous
Mr. Graff is an inexperience, incompetent, and unprofessional attorney. He will take your money and not provide the service you deserve. I was more knowledge about the law ( bankruptcy) then he was. He failed to keep me up to date with my case. I would not recommend him to anyone!!!!!!!!!!
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14 Nov, 2012 by Anonymous
INCOMPETENT, AND UNPREPARED. Don't hire him!!!!!
I, Hired him to do my divorce. A year later it was still pending . He was never prepared in court . He would always arrive late to court , dirty with coffee stains on his clothes and shirt untucked. He was a dam mess. He never knew what he had to file nor did he ever know what was going on with the case. The only thing he was good at was asking for more money. Be careful, he will suck you dry. So I fired him and hired another attorney and within a month the divorce was settled and done with. I never thought an attorney could be so disorganized. I then found out he does traffic tickets and claims to know other areas of law. Believe me he will tell you he can do your case just to take your money. Don't believe him; please go to another attorney. Don't let him practice with your case. You will regret it and loss alot of money. What he needs to do is stick with traffic law and stop hurting people by taking a case he has no clue of what to do. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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01 Nov, 2012 by Raymond
Don't hire him he will take your money and won't make a court appearance for you.
Incompetent traffic lawyer trying to take litigation cases. He does sloppy work will put you in warrant status. If you have a traffic ticket pray that he makes it to court. If you have a litigation case look for another attorney.
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07 Dec, 2021 by Anonymous
Joseph Bante is in a very nice office but he is the most incompetent AWFUL lawyer who will NOT fight for you but will make you think and feel that he is. He is friends with all the lawyers and judges and will screw you over even after you fire him and obtain different counsel.
He stutters and it takes him way too long to compose a thought in his mind. He is not eloquent or articulate; it’s atrocious to hear him speak. He will over bill you and then destroy your chances at whatever it is you’re fighting for.
DO NOT MEET WITH OR HIRE JOSEPH BANTE!
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21 Dec, 2020 by Anonymous
I used him back in 2019 has a lawyer for a divorce and he failed. He didn’t even fight for me and found out he was good friends with my ex wife’s lawyer. She got the house and the car and cleaned out my bank account. I had to try to fight for myself and it didn’t work. I’ve always was a better person then my ex. She never took care of the kids and I only slept for 5-6 hours a week. And now I’m taking him, my ex wife’s laywer and the judges to federal court. And my new lawyers told me that they let my ex wife lie on her Financials what do you need more money to me but may look like she made hardly anything
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01 Feb, 2016 by John
Hired him for employment issue never filed it. Then made him my divorce attorney worst attorney I could of pick. He doesn't have a secretary . Doesn't respond to calls or emails. Had to do all the paperwork. Doesn't file motion on time. Gives away my bond money from another country from another case. . Getting ready to get a hold of the bar association. Warning do not hire this attorney. You will be sorry. ..
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16 Nov, 2015 by Carl
If I could've not chose a star we wouldn't have. We've been waiting over a year for him to respond to paperwork we sent him asking him to review it & let us know if he thought we had a case. We told him if he said we did we would then send him a retainer fee & proceed with our case. I've called him multiple times & hearing him tell me he was just about to look at the paperwork or he read it & thought there might be something & he'd call me back. To date, he has NOT EVER CALLED ME BACK! I'm extremely frustrated & don't know what we ever did to be treated this way. At this point we want our paperwork returned to us. We hope to find an attorney in the St. Louis area that would entertain our potential case & let us pay them to proceed.
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08 Jan, 2023 by Justin
I invested several years and many thousands of dollars in Kristin and in Cordell & Cordell. They advertised themselves as lawyers dads can count on. But both behaved unethically and unprofessionally.
As my case drew to a close, I raised concerns with Kristin about the quality of legal services I had received. In short, the judge’s position contradicted the vast majority of Kristin’s legal advice. Rather than discuss my concerns, Kristin filed a motion to withdraw, leaving me without representation only days before trial. Because I followed Kristin’s advice, my ex-wife's harmful parenting remains unchecked, and I am in no better position to help my children.
Follow-up attempts with the firm’s Client Care division, with management partner Kimberly Gray, and with founding partner Joseph Cordell were unhelpful. I posed questions about quality of legal advice, commitment to clients, major discrepancies between projected and actual costs, truth in advertising, value of services, and the client care process. Across emails and phone calls, my concerns were repeatedly sidestepped, and in every interaction I was treated more like a witness to be cross-examined than a paying client. When the Missouri Bar became involved, both Kristin and Cordell & Cordell refused to cooperate.
I cannot recoup my investment, nor can I reverse the negative outcome for my children. But if you’re reading this, you can avoid my missteps. Dads: don’t hire Kristin, nor any Cordell & Cordell attorney. You cannot count on them.
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05 Jan, 2016 by Anonymous
You should know that you are the boss of your case. Do not let any attorney sway you from proceeding how you wish to proceed. If she got a grade it would be a "F". going to court is a very tough decision and make sure that you heed all reviews for any site before giving a attorney money.
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30 Jul, 2013 by Anonymous
Bruce Wurmerser is an attorney I would strongly recommend NEVER using, he had taken a substantial amount of money never filed a complaint, withdrew never filing a motion (as he never filed that case) and stopped returning all calls.
Attorney Bruce Wurmser had agreed to take a case regarding the City of St. Louis. He was paid a $10,000 retainer and given monthly payments totaling $19,000. He assured me that a case was going to be filed, in November of 2012. He drafted a one page complaint for inverse condemnation, but never in fact filed it. He did minimal research, and never filed a case. He then voluntarily withdrew stating a monthly payment was missed. He did not withdraw through a court order, because there was never a case filed. He took the money did not put in any work never filed a case than abruptly withdrew essentially without any accounting on the monies paid to him.
He withdrew with no notice without handing over any of the files, and did not call the client. He claimed his withdrawal was for not paying a $3,000 monthly fee, which he never verified the hours worked on the case to indicate that he had exhausted initial retainer. Time and again Mr. Wurmser was implored to file even a basic complaint that could have been supplemented, but this was never done. He claimed he had spent many hours researching and meeting with other attorneys but I have in-house counsel that had conducted much of the research. He continually misrepresented work completed on the case. He never offered up the remaining client funds back to client, and did not file as instructed. We received little to no services for the over $19,000 paid to Mr. Wurmser and will be taking further legal action, and believe that further disciplinary action must be taken, as numerous professional rules of conduct were violated by Mr. Wurmser
Submitted along with this complaint is a history of all email communications with Mr. Wurmser, and thoughout you will see that no case was ever filed. Rather it was indicative of his lack of work. He continually represented that he would try and take meetings with opposing counsel, or with previous attorneys, and he never in fact did so after speaking to previous attorneys’. He gave no notice of withdrawal, rather sent letter saying he was withdrawing, and then withdrew, without so much as a phone call. Again do not use Bruce Wurmser as he has caused us to lose much time and money in prosecuting our case, without ever filing even a basic complaint.
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29 Apr, 2013 by Anonymous
Inept and clueless. Talked down to us and didn't know the law.
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03 Mar, 2014 by Anonymous
I wish I could say nice things about Vince. As his client, I was disappointed by his performance and his behavior. I will not use him again and do not recommend him.
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11 Apr, 2016 by Judy
My family hired this attorney to manage the probate for my mother's estate, since she left no will. We were told since it was such a small estate (less than $40K), that it would only take 6 months to finalize everything.
It is now 15 months later and the estate still is not settled. The attorney has had to file motions multiple times because of errors in her filing, she won't communicate with us for weeks on end and has no real explanation as to why the process is still dragging on. We don't believe she has ever done probate before, but it would have been nice to know that at the beginning, so we could have hired someone knowledgeable.
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25 Feb, 2014 by Jason
I asked "Matt" to work on two debt cases. I paid up front what he asked. In the first case, he missed the court date, and a default judgment was issued against me. When I notified him of this (he never noticed), he had the judgment set aside.
In the second case, he missed 5 court dates, finally the judge declared me in default because my attorney never showed up. When I found this out, he dragged out his responses over five months, and then let me know that he would like to withdraw from my case and had no interest in trying to get the judgment set aside.
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24 Oct, 2020 by Anonymous
I hired Mr Miller based off of other reviews. I should have did more research on Mr Miller. Everyone who gave positive reviews about Mr Miller was successful people like business owners and other types. If your not successful your not going to get Mr Miller full attention on your case. When I talk to him on the phone about my case he made it seem like it was easy and it will be no problem to get my case done so I hired him. After I hired Mr Miller he gave my case to his associate lawyer. Mr Miller didn't try to contact me any more about my case. Everything was about his associate lawyer contracting me. I asked the associate questions about my case she didn't answer them and Mr Miller was tracking this and did nothing to stop it from keep happening. Now a year later Mr Miller and his associate have had my case and him and his associate haven't made any progress on my case. My case is still in the same place it was before I hired Mr Miller a year ago. The only thing that has happen with my case with Mr Miller is a big bill from Mr Miller and that's it. Yes, Mr Miller is on SUPER LAWYERS based off of the service I received he shouldn't be.
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27 Feb, 2016 by Sherry
This attorney never followed up or informed me with information regarding my child support case. Was very unconcerned, only returned one phone call. Very condescending and rude. I'm still unaware of were I stand with my case and having to do the work myself. He took the money and left me in the dark. I would never recommend this attorney to anyone I know.
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24 Dec, 2012 by Dick r
In 2010 I hired attorney Sanders to represent me in a foreclosure case. He seemed competent initially, however 6 or 7 months later I received a notice that my home was to be sold at sherriff's auction in 48 hours. I immediately called his office, but the phone was disconnected, I drove to his office, at first they said he was no longer ther (he operated from a shared office), after pressing an administrative person who had known him told me he had taken an emergency medical leave, but had not left a forwarding number or address. Sanders had allowed a default judgement to be entered in my case, never notified me, and disappreared altogether. Fortunalty, I was able to quickly hire a new attorney and prevent the sale from going forward. However, his negligence has compromised my case in a manner that I may not recover from and may ultimately may lead to the loss of my home.
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05 Dec, 2018 by Mary
Signed contract with Mr Leonard in November 2017 after suffering stroke following cervical disk replacement. Also suffers a scar in my airway which requires hospital procedure to keep my airway open. The surgery was performed by Dr Wilson Ray at Barnes Hospital on January 3, 2017. After waiting 10 months with no news I contacted mr Leonard who stated he had submitted my medical records to two experts for review. He told me on the phone that Dr Ray was negligent causing my stroke by misplaced plate in my neck. He said he was filing the case because the statute of limitations expired January 2019. I was contacted by Mr Leonard’s assistant a month later who requested my MRI from before the surgery. Then on November 6, 2018 I received a letter from Mr Leonard stating that the three EXPERT witnesss he had review my records would not sign my case so he could not file it. Mr Leonard told me to contact another attorney IMMEDIATELY if I wanted to pursue the case. I contacted several other attorneys but was told the time frame was too short for them to work on the case since the statuary if limitations expired this January. Mr Leonard also informed me that his daughter was a physician at Barnes hospital.
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02 May, 2013 by Anonymous
He just takes money and does nothing! He has no pull in the city or county. He is fraud.
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07 Aug, 2018 by Anonymous
They took my case. Never called me back when I called them. Never help me get my rotator cuff fixed in my shoulder. Dropped me just because I said I was calling the bar association on them. People stay far away from this firm. They are a nightmare and a living hell. They are full of mess. If you know what I mean.
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22 Feb, 2023 by Albert anglin
17 Aug, 2021 by Tiffany edwards
They never answer the phone nor call back. Worst company ever to deal with.
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16 Nov, 2020 by Tina
Garnishment for 1400$, taking 25% interest out of my paychecks. Awful company. Single mom, 1 income and they're taking 340$ every 2 weeks from my paychecks! 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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22 Feb, 2023 by Albert anglin
17 Aug, 2021 by Tiffany edwards
They never answer the phone nor call back. Worst company ever to deal with.
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16 Nov, 2020 by Tina
Garnishment for 1400$, taking 25% interest out of my paychecks. Awful company. Single mom, 1 income and they're taking 340$ every 2 weeks from my paychecks! 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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