Paul M. Russell, experienced Estate Planning, Personal Injury attorney in Methuen, MA with 4 reviews
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Paul M. Russell

231 Broadway, Methuen, MA

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02 Nov, 2020
Absolutely the worst experience I've had with an lawyer and I have dealt with several. He was nosey, unprofessional and rude. We made a deal with my wife's parents to buy there home. We tried to buy it 2 years ago but had some credit issues to resolve. We had agreed on a price for the property but it was less than the market would fetch but they wanted to keep it in the family. We where using Paul because I had told my father in law that a lot of times when you use an attorney you have used before they give a discount for return business. Basically he told them we where ripping them off even though we told them to get the house appraised. He charged double for the closing costs. paid people twice we had already paid out of our pocket and then told us we had to get the money back ourselves. He told my wives parents that their closing costs where 7 thousand dollars less than they where so we got stuck paying an extra 7 grand at closing. We couldn't complain! We where already getting a deal on the house. So we had to eat it and smile. last of all we had an appointment for the closing for 2:30pm on a Friday. He had me sit on his brick porch for 45 minutes on a 90 degree day so he could squeeze in another closing before mine (last minute). If I could give him no stars I would.
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Sherry

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29 Oct, 2018
The attorney decided to keep $10,000 of my money at closing because of the Columbia gas outage and explosions in the neighborhood which caused my property to be without gas at time of closing. After the closing was done he tried to bully me into keeping my $10,000 and giving it to the buyer against our agreement. He would not talk to me on the phone he would hang up on me and he would not reply to my emails and told me to hire an attorney of my own. Extremely unprofessional and arrogant. I don’t know how this guy is still licensed
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Anonymous

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19 Jul, 2016
Was selling my house and as the closing attorney, Russell claimed that he delegated the title search to another attorney who could not clear it. Like Susanne's experience, Russell was no help at all with this issue so I had no choice but involve a THIRD attorney who had NO TROUBLE clearing title. Russell just couldn't be bothered to even try. Or course he was more than happy to pass the cost of the failed attempt to clear as well as the successful title clearing cost on to me. At the closing, he also provided a generous dose of arrogance when he thratened to cancel the closing if I refused to pay ALL the fees. Even his office paralegal told me that I shouldn't have to pay the fees. Thanks for NOTHING.
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