Reviews

Caroline is a total professional who keeps it simple.

Caroline Badinelli handled my legal matter. She made the process easy and was available for any questions or concerns. She was efficient in all processes and kept me informed along the way. She provided a response to my emails and calls very quickly. I highly recommend her. It is rare to find someone so responsive and available. If I should need legal services in the future, I will know who to call.

I was well taken care of by my Attorney, Caroline Badinelli. She handled everything quickly and kept me informed throughout the process. Highly recommend her.

First, the good — Caroline is a great person who advised me to seek things that I otherwise wouldn't have (like child support). I like how she is a strong voice of reason during a time when I wasn't thinking clearly. She also stuck to the budget and was good to inform me of costs. The not-so-good – because she is operating so quickly I didn't have a full understanding of my options. The worst part for me is when she didn't show up to my divorce trial. Perhaps she said she wasn't coming and I didn't understand but it was very demoralizing to have my ex-husband's lawyer there and no one on my side to give me guidance or explain things.

Caroline is a well-respected attorney in family law. She is a capable litigator and works to represent her clients' best interests, whether the case is litigaged or mediated.

Caroline was taking care of other clients with emails and texts while I was asking her questions about my case while we waited in court (so she was probably charging me and the other clients for time at the same time). She completely botched an email to my ex husband forgetting to delete some ugly comments that she made before sending it to him, after I approved the email. She took 3 months to acquire records for a hearing and then lied to me that she didn’t have them on the day we had court (which I found out days later that they were sent to her prior to court). She came to court very unprepared and I ended up losing out on about $18,000 of child support arrears and future child support because she didn’t do the research I had asked her to do. She also kept me on the stand for several hours when my ex husband was only up there for about 30-45 minutes and he is the one we wanted to question. She was awful and I recommend you find someone else.

Caroline Badinelli is an extremely knowledgeable attorney and passionate advocate for her clients. I recommend her highly for matters of family law.

A true professional with a heart of gold. Caroline gets excellent results, promptly, for a reasonable fee. Responsive to clients and good with communication. She will do a good job for you.

Do not hire her, you wont be paying for an attorney but an overpriced secretary. Takes up more cases that she can handle, never has time to actually put attention on your case. We have hired her through ARAG to handle child custody issues. She has provided 0 consultation (apart from the initial one) and at time it took her over 3 month to respond to us! We have followed her advise and now lost any leverage we had for modification going forward. We filed an official complaint with ARAG now, not that it helps us with the mess she left us in now.

Caroline had too many clients to devote the time necessary to my case. Among other mistakes made throughout the divorce process, she went into mediation without having completed the mediation spreadsheet. Instead of utilizing time available the morning of mediation, she used the time to reply to other clients’ e-mails. When the mediator, Amanda Andrae, asked for our proposal, Caroline handed it to her incomplete and inaccurate. The mediator had to point out to Caroline that my insurance policy was not a $100,000 asset of mine. The mediator ended up having to draw up our proposal for us. The spreadsheet did not make much sense to me, but I trusted the mediator and Caroline when they said this was a fair and accurate division. I discovered after it was too late that Caroline did not catch the fact that the mediator had mistakenly listed a $28,000 bank account as my ex-spouse’s separate property rather than an asset of his. This oversight on Caroline’s part cost me $28,000. Since Caroline is a divorce attorney and this was my first divorce, I mistakenly trusted her to lead me through this process competently and unfortunately that was not the case.