Mario S. Ninfo

1198 Clark Street, N.W., Covington, GA

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07 Mar, 2023
He is very profesional all stuff very helpful, I have my beautiful baby with me thanks to him and I will always be thankful to have him as a lawyer
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Anonymous

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22 Feb, 2022
I hired Ninfo for an adoption case. The consultation was okay, nothing special and left with questions. We scheduled a date to have the parentals sign the papers, the office called and had to reschedule. We did so and when that date came, they canceled once again. I never once met Mario! I ended up giving up and hiring a new lawyer. I now see that was a great choice based off the reviews!
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William

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18 Dec, 2017
So I was referred to this lawyer by my company’s legal benefits plan to handle two cases that I have ongoing. For one of the cases (lets call it case A), only the initial consultation was covered under the legal plan, and for the other case (lets call it Case B), the legal plan (I was told) covered the whole thing. So I had the free consultation with the lawyer concerning case A, and paid him $1500 up front to handle that particular case, and signed a contract for that case and that case only. That was the first, and last time I ever spoke to him. Shortly thereafter, I was made aware of case B, which (I was told by Mario’s associates) was a completely separate case, that it could not be incorporated into the first (even though the people involved were similar), and that I would have to find a way to pay for it separately. So after some research on the Hyatt legal site, it appeared that Case B was actually covered by my benefits, so I generated a case number and provided it to Mario’s associates, who then informed me that the case could be covered under hyatt legal and to send them the documentation that I had on the case. Then, for the next 4 weeks, I only got one call from the associates, who had called to tell me of a rescheduled court date they never informed me had been scheduled. I ended up hiring a new attorney and asking for a summary of work performed against my retainer, and he rolls both cases into the case where I paid the retainer, and made rediculously high withdrawls for non-legal items (charged $290 to read emails!?!?!?), but he also charged me for items AFTER he had been terminated. This man is a monster, the worst kind of human being. I can only pray that they will bar him from ever practicing law again.
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