Reviews

Julia is a true professional for Real Estate Closings.

Took our money, knowing that she couldn’t assist us. Then explained why and told us to seek council in a different county. They very easily could’ve done that over the phone at first interaction, but chose money over what’s right for the family. Family court attorney only looking for money isn’t an attorney at all, just a typical money hungry S.C. attorney taking money a waste of time “consultation”, that’s needed for the child.

Great lawyer. The whole office was very nice and helpful.

I wouldn’t have given any stars if allowed!! After initial consult with Heather regarding my divorce, I was told it would be a simple divorce and wouldn’t use the whole 5k retainer fee! Briefly will explain that I was left in total dark and on the back burner for 6+ months. I had to constantly ask questions to get any information pertaining to the whole process. After this going on for months, I did become frustrated and explained that to Heather. I was then informed she was DROPPING me as a client, she used up the WHOLE $5,000 retainer fee, and billing me an extra $600 and I still haven’t gotten my divorce!!!! Beware….total rip off!!!!

She will help you and not robbe you

Great lawyer!!!

I find it extremely interesting that over the last 3 years, a total of 10 reviews(1 of those 5 star reviews coming directly from the firm 3 years ago) have been posted. 4 of those 5 star reviews were posted back to back within 2 hours of my husband posting(from my account) his honest opinion of our bad experience with the firm and another 5 star review coming in 4 hours after his. In my opinion, it appears that these reviews are an attempt to sandbag or skew their true rating. Unfortunately, businesses unethically do this often. If I hadn’t personally explained in length the details of our case, regarding the well-being of a child, prior to setting the appointment AND reiterated the details within the first few minutes of meeting with Ms. Von Herrmann, we’d understand that it was our fault for not disclosing enough information from the beginning. However, I DID disclose SEVERAL times that the custodial parent in question resides in a different county prior to setting the appointment(specifically to make sure that we could seek council within Horry County regardless of the custodial parents current residential county). The person that I spoke with told me she was not a receptionist but an attorney at the firm. Therefore, given the information provided to her, should have been knowledgeable enough to know that setting an appointment with them would be a waste of our time and money. Again, this information was also disclosed to Ms. Von Herrmann within the first few minutes of our appointment, as well, yet she let us speak for 30 minutes(after acknowledging herself the custodial parents residential county) and gladly kept our hard earned $250 just to tell us that we’d need to seek council in or closer to the county where the current custodial parent resides. She justified the time and cost by saying she gave us advice to seek counseling for the child...even though we were given the same advice several hours prior from A Father’s Place and had already planned to set that up. Quiet frankly, A Father’s Place gave us more beneficial advice at no cost over the phone than we received from this firm. We walked away from this firm with nothing but lost wages from taking time off of work, condolences and a $250 sticky note of a googled phone number to seek council elsewhere. This time and money could have easily been put towards pursuing our case through the appropriate county if this firm would have chosen the ethical route (either during the initial phone call or within minutes of our meeting) over making a quick $250 off of heartbroken, concerned, hardworking, loving parents. It is our opinion that this firm selfishly and wrecklessly took advantage of us and to see them recruiting friends to offset the negative, yet honest review, is confirmation that our initial opinion was indeed correct. I am not saying this firm isn’t highly capable of fighting and winning for their clients. I’m just warning others to approach with caution so they can hopefully avoid being taken advantage of the way we were.