Reviews

Since we wanna show out on Facebook and not take accountability for how we handle our cases and business, I'll leave a public review for everyone to see before making the decision to hire you. In October 2018 I hired Margaret Holmes to handle my custody case regarding my son. If I'm not mistaken, we went to court on Nov. 4th, the day of my birthday. The way my "representation" walked in LATE, with her hair still wet and in a clip, totally not matching (some weird shirt with the weirdest choice skirt to go with it), and open toed sandals STILL embarrasses me to this day. Typically this would not bother me but the way she was dressed was just absolutely unprofessional that when I got in the car with my best friend I had to ask if I really saw that or was I hallucinating. When I did my consultation, I remember sitting at one of the desks and directly behind the desk was a glass pane door. I could see someone walking around IN A TOWEL and when I asked "who is that" Margaret stated "that's my daughter, she lives here". Excuse me? Your daughter lives here in the presence of people's confidential info? Still at the time I was unable to afford anyone else so I continued on and paid her $1500 to file for emergency custody of my son. One of the other times I came in, Margaret had a MASSIVE black eye. Of course I was shocked and asked if she was okay to which she replied she had "slipped and fell face first in her garage". 🙄 I feel sorry for whoever she represented during that. I again had to ask my best friend if I was seeing things, being too harsh? We both agreed there was absolutely no way that happened from a fall, which is sad. But that that is also HIGHLY unprofessional. Fast forward to my court date, a one week on/off agreement had been met. I had never gone through this, so of course I had questions. Margaret seemed dismissive of my concerns as usual. I took my son that day, adhered to the custody agreement in the way that I understood it because i had 0 guidance, and waited for my next court date. I never heard anything back. I had missed my court date. Luckily my sons bio-dad did too and I didn't hear from him again for YEARS. I had to hire another lawyer recently actually, who took a gander at my case from 2018 and she said that we're first of all, in contempt. And secondly, when I left court that day it was not as the sole custodial parent. How the hell do you fumble a case so badly that a single, drug free, independent mother in a womens state leaves her custody hearing with a known drug addict, without sole custody when THEYRE the ones that initiated emergency custody? So THAT had to be straightened out. Now that it's been brought up many years later when someone asks for advice on what lawyer to get around the area, Margaret "doesn't remember". You don't remember taking $1500 from me and dropping my case because you can't keep an open line of communication? Fun fact, you didn't remember me or the details of my case when the papers were sitting right in front of you! Get off the sauce. You have no business handling family cases with how you lack empathy and professionalism. Every bad review you have, I can attest to the fact that it is all true. You are so embarrassing and unprofessional, and I can imagine it's showing in your numbers. And then when I leave my honest to God review under a post asking for guidance, Margaret likes to throw around meaningless phrases like "cease and desist!" If you don't want bad reviews then don't be a horrible lawyer. You can tell who she is and how she conducts herself in her responses to negative reviews. Yall have been warned. (Actually now that I think about it, it was more to the tune of 2500$ that was taken from me. Whatever her flat rate to initiate court was/is. What makes me even sadder is coming here after all this time to speak my truth and seeing an eerily similar review of all the things I experienced. All it takes is one to speak out, and the others will follow. It's crazy you treated me/my child the way you did and didn't think it'd ever be brought up again.)

Margaret is everything a great attorney should be! She never gave up from beginning to end. She did an excellent job for me against another very skilled attorney. I highly recommend her for a divorce attorney!

I filed a complaint against her license with the bar it was so bad. She signed a temp order without sending to me or my agreeing, didn’t tell me about an emergency hearing that occurred, didn’t show up for and canceled all of our meetings, submitted discovery on my behalf weeks after I fired her with no evidence or witnesses on my behalf at all, she said she drank “crown for breakfast” to me and her assistant before my pre trial hearing in poplarville (naturally she had no clue what was going on that hearing), the list goes on and on. Truly shocking abandonment of her duties! I asked her for a refund and she lost her mind- sent over 10 threatening emails, threatened to file charges and all. I am an abuse survivor and am begging you to find a different and competent attorney if you’re fighting that fight. It’s hard enough with adequate support in this court system.

Very good people! Margaret is a great lawyer who genuinely cares about her clients.

This is your go to defense lawyer in hattiesburg mississippi. when it matters, you want the best lawyer. I highly recommend Homes law firm.

Best lawyer ever!

I just love Margaret Holmes and her experienced Staff. You can't go wrong with Holmes

My aunt works here, and my daughter and I were picking up my cousin's little girl to babysit. My aunt has been working with taxes and laws for years, so I feel pretty sure that this is a nice place for someone to see a lawyer! 🗂🗄🗑🔐🗃

My aunt works here, and my daughter and I went here to pick up my cousin's 1-year old daughter. I haven't did business here before, but i know how hard she works, and i can just imagine her running an awesome firm! Thanks for allowing us to babysit!

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