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On June 2015 I hired Steve Rossi to represent me when I was falsely accused to striking a student. Mr. Rossi took a retainer of $2,600.00. Once he took the money he told that he couldnt appear on my behalf because if he did the Union UTD would drop me like a hot potato. I tried to post a complaint with about and they kept objecting to my wording I reformatted more than 7 times to no avail. Avvo is there to protect their own not the public.

It is obvious that Avvo only posts positive reviews. They asked me to rewrite the review for it to be considered. There is not much that I could change as i just presented the facts. I do not know if the attorneys answering the questions pay to be on Avvo, but I would guess that the do, based on the Avvo response to my review. I was shocked that they would not post my review. I was very factual and did not attack the attorney's character, as this attorney did to me on the Avvo forum. The attorney never addressed my question, but immediately jumped to conclusions and insulted me. After providing further info, she gave me unsolicited advise that was snippy and impossible in my case. She still never addressed my question. I left Avvo with the feeling of disgust.

I have used Avvo in the past to assist me with contacting an attorney to represent me in a legal matter. Recently I attempted to use it again, at which time one of their recommended attorneys never contacted after I made direct contact with him via his website. Avvo contacted me about a week later to inquire about my experience with their recommended attorney and to ask if I would write a review. I chose to do so in order to politely inform other potential clients of my experience with the Avvo-recommended attorney. However, in spite of repeated attempts, Avvo refused to post my review. Of note: Their recommended attorney is a 5-star client of Avvo and I rate them with only 1 star. It seems to me that Avvo is protecting their 5-star client by not allowing me to post my negative experience with their client. This action feels dishonest and slimy because it appears that Avvo will only allow positive reviews of their clients. If this is true, it begs the question: What good are ANY of the Avvo attorneys if all of their reviews are possibly manipulated? As you can see by many of the other reviews on this site, I am not the only person with this same issue. Please understand that I am reviewing Avvo and not all of their attorneys.

I asked a simple real estate question and received three replies. None answered my very simple straightforward question, but at least one took the time to understand the situation with an ounce of empathy. One made assumptions that were totally wrong and biased and declared I should move and another declared I was crazy for not having a lawyer and asking questions on the website.
So I thanked the one lawyer and let the other two know I didnt find their responses helpful. Apparently dont ever ever tell a lawyer they are wrong because the nasty responses I received were appalling. One of them was so pissed off he emailed me twice because he felt I was less than grateful and I am really cleaning this up for the kiddies.
Using AVVO will convince you all the bad things they say about lawyers is mostly true.

You can be as clear and straightforward with your question as is possible and you won't get much in return. With the sketchy, half-hearted replies, you'll wonder if these attys even totally read your question. Or understood it. Not worth the effort and I've tried several times. I give this 2 stars because at least they email you with some follow up contact, like they care a tad. Though it's relevant to what you asked only about half the time.

Biased platform for the benefit of attorneys and not consumers. This company only posts positive reviews and will not accept negative reviews. I wrote a fact-based truthful review of my experience with an attorney, citing case filings and other reliable and verifiable sources and AVVO still denied the review. Ive since read on many other websites testimonials that justify my exact claim. This is a very wreckless business practice as it misleads consumers who are looking for good, reputable attorneys to hire for legal representation. Retainer fees can range 3k, 5k and upwards. There should be a class action suit filed against AVVO by all the consumers who used the AVVO platform to consult/hire an attorney that theyre positively advocating in exchange for subscribing to their services. Truth is, the consumer will never see any negative experiences voiced by consumers. Not only is this misleading but its corrupt and scandalous. After my truthful fact-based review and loss of 3k to an incompetent attorney, heres what AVVO responded: We are writing to inform you that your review of Sarah C******* was not approved because it does not meet our community guidelines.

I made a complaint about Steven Katz who has a conflict of interest, but it was refused by Avvo on spurious grounds

I had two cases one for personal injury with nater law firm attorney Fanny and Raymond sotomayor and after they handled my case for almost four years they abandoned my case a week before the trial I also had a child support case who the opposing attorney craig Bourne delayed the case for 3 years and a half and won after lying to the court officer and after I provided all the evidence you can imagine 47 pages of evidence still this avvo site even refused to file a complaint against this people don't waste your time they all stick together most are friends and it doesn't matter how obvious your evidence is these scum bags will help each other and protect themselves, stay away they are extremely corrupted.

Hired the worst attorney I've ever met based on glowing Avvo reviews. Truth is, after I had to fire Denver defense attorney Michael Root for ineffective assistance of counsel, I tried to post a factual review based on the record of the Court, his written correspondences to me, the evidence and the law. NOPE. Not gonna happen on avvo. They refuse all negative reviews. I got screwed because of Avvo. Stay Away! Don't let their fictitious portrayals of every lawyer, no matter how bad, ruin your life.