Reviews

We've worked with Tom on estate planning twice now and each time he made the process easy. He is knowledgeable and is able to explain procedures in a way that makes the process understandable. I highly recommend Thomas Marks for your estate planning needs.

I am a single mother by choice located in MA and my family lives in EU. As a mother, I am doing my best to protect my baby, but accident/diseases/death can come up at anytime and change that plan. What would happen to my baby if I was not there anymore or if I was suddenly in incapacity to take care of my baby? I have also some financial assets which came from many years of hard work. How to be sure my baby would fully benefit from it? For my piece of mind, I wanted to put in place a guardianship trust to protect my baby’s future by assigning a temporary guardian to avoid my baby to go through foster care until court decision, a long term guardian and a trustee to manage my assets for my baby’s benefit. I first worked with a firm, but they took 8 months to contact me back after the initial steps of gathering all the info. I then switched to Thomas J Marks ( for a similar cost, a bit under actually) and it was a great pleasure to work with him. Thomas is quite responsive. He replied to me the same day I contacted him and this prompt responsiveness was maintained through the whole process. Right from the start, he established clear timelines and turn around time on both sides that allowed things to move forward smoothly and in timely manner. While my brain is reluctant to legal terms, Thomas has the skills, experience and patience to turn legal terms into layman’s terms. I trusted him very fast based on the fact Thomas was a high recommendation from a friend of mine who successfully took care of similar matters with Thomas support. Thomas is a kind, calm and competent professional, and he genuinely wants to do the best for his clients. I do recommend to anyone to plan the future of loved ones. I am very thankful to Thomas for helping me gain this piece of mind and highly recommend his services.

Very helpful thorough great man I appreciate the information he gave me

Attorney Ostendorf works hard and supports his clients no matter how difficult the situation at hand.

I have worked with James for over three years on continuous post-divorce matters. He has been extremely helpful and knowledable in explaining and stratgeizing my case, even when the defendant keeps coming and showing no desire to settle or end. Thank you James, I would highly recommend.

I would highly recommend Tom Marks. He handled my estate/will documents and was great to work with. He answered all my questions, responded to emails quickly, and made the whole process easy and painless. Wonderful service!

My wife and I used Tom's services for all things estate planning. He made the entire process smooth and easy to understand. We would recommend Tom and his office to anyone looking for wills, trusts or estate planning help.

The most undependable attorney I know. Says he’ll do stuff, like serve the plaintiff and then finds out he never did. Never calls back and just constantly lies to you. I ended up firing him over a month ago and he’s told me his withdrawal and refund are in the mail. Horrible horrible person. If anyone in the Salem area thinks he has an office there, his office is a Post Office Box. Very very shady Dan Dunn

Attorney Marks helped me and my family create a Will, Power of Attorney, Health Care Proxy as well as a Trust . Through all this , he was very sociable and informative. He took my calls right away and answered my emails quickly . He made a stressful time very easy. I would recommend him without question.

My wife and I retained Attorney Marks to set up and register documents pertaining to our retirement. From the very beginning of the process we both felt very comfortable with Tom. He was professional and friendly and very easy to work with. Tom took the time to make sure we understood everything throughout every step of the process. Everything was completed in the time frame that was originally set up. We are both very happy with Tom and his work and highly recommend him!

I have worked with Tom Marks for many years around my pesonal estate planning. He is thorough, professional, and easy to work with, always responding promptly and with care. Despite estate planning having many documents and considerations, Tom keeps it all organized and doesn't forget any details. He sees an important legal process smoothly to completion.

Peace of mind. That is what Attorney Tom Marks delivered – Peace of mind knowing everything is taken care of. Attorney Marks guided us through the entire process by listening to us and how we wanted our estate handled. Every question we had he answered and even answered questions we didn’t know we had. Attorney Marks took all our information and compiled it into a document for our review that was easy to read and understand. Once we reviewed the document he was open to make any changes we desired and met with us at our convenience. He has even put together steps we need to take to update beneficiaries on our accounts based on the trust we created. He was wonderful to work with and I have already recommended him to friends and family.