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Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My Son was convicted of a very serious drug crime in federal court Mr. Arnkoff fought hard for him the government waiver of the mandatory 10 years he was facing MR. Arnold f always knew the Judge would have given him a lesser sentence if she could have and he was very upset with the government lawyer. My Son has now spent almost 5 years in custody. Recently Mr. Arnkoff f contract me about filing a petition for my son release due to health and Covid reasons. He told me the Judge was no longer bound by the 10 years sentence He put everything into motion and brought his Attorney Friend Michael Holley. The Judge agreed with them that my son deserved being released and he will be returning home with in a few weeks. I can't thank Mr. Arnkofff and Mr. Holley enough for their efforts on behalf of my son

Date of experience: June 17, 2021
Washington
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I questioned and messaged multiple lawyers from my area explaining my case. Some were rude, the answers very vague, some would not even answer at all. Others would contradict eachother, for example: I asked "Is a confession enough evidence"?... once said that "it wasn't enough". Another one said "a confession is enough evidence". And then it thought, WHICH ONE IS IT?

I would provide my case will all of the details possible, I genuenly noticed that they did even read the whole thing. Jumping to conclusions, with vague and VERY unclear answers.

Terrible service, I do not recommend to anyone seeking to be clarified like I was.

Oh and lets not skip the fact that they remove NEGATIVE REVIEWS! Terrible Site, stay away from it.

Date of experience: April 28, 2020
Washington
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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I posted a review about attorney Mike Gruhin. My review was accurate and honest about this attorney. Was contacted by Avvo claiming the attorney said I wasn't his client. I Wrote back to them and stated he is right I wasn't his client. He refused to take my case because he said he was too busy and my case wasn't enough money for him to pursue. I gave him one star. Avvo edited my review and left out a lot of information and he still has Ten stars. If Mr. Gruhin was so busy he would have time to go online and review all the reviews people write about him and dispute what he doesn't like. AVVO is a scam because the tweet the reviews in favor of the attorney.

Date of experience: August 25, 2015
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have submitted my review zillion times. Made changes to make negative slight better so Avvo can approve it but Avvo keeps rejecting it. I left a review about a family lawyer and it's a simple review but Avvo keeps rejecting it.

I will paste the review here.

I hired Jasmit Dhaliwal (Family Lawyer in Dallas) to represent me in the divorce case after 1st lawyer rip me off. Instead of her leading the case, she passed my case to a junior lawyer with little experience. During my case, I expirenced dishonesty in agreement and billing. Did not provide the outcome they promised. When I tried to address any concern, I was threatened by Jasmit's manager (her husband) to be dropped. When I tried harder to resolve the issue of billing, I was dropped as a client and when I left a negative feedback on google review, I was harassed by firm lawyer for leaving a negative comment.

Not worth wasting your time and money. They will promise a lot of things that they know is is impossible. Even though it's wife's company, husband is a manager and she doesn't work to resolve the issue and the throws the ball at the husband (manager), who takes any concern negative feedback in a personal way.

Date of experience: December 22, 2023
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Garmo & Garmo Law
January 12, 2017

After being in a horrific car accident, we decided to hire attornies at Garmo & Garmo law offices of El Cajon. All the attornies here are very kind, compassionate and truly understood the stresses, pain and trauma that is involved in this type of accident. Furthermore Attorney Bill Epstein surprised us with way more money than we had anticipated. If you are searching for highly effective attornies for a wrongful injury lawsuit, go to Garmo and Garmo in El Cajon.

Date of experience: January 12, 2017
Tennessee
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Not to be trusted
October 8, 2021

I did a review on Michael Peacock, on Avvo and of course they have to review before they post. Avvo is not going to post the things most important that consumers should be aware of, they denied to post my review they came up with their own theory and a fat lie Only because evidently I was the only person to speak up of the bad behavior and bad actions of Mr. Peacock who I consider a terrible Attorney. I will not recommend Avvo to anyone my impression of the information on the Attorneys listed is not adequately right. I suggest call the State Bar or Lawyer Referral and google the name of the lawyer and/or firm and read reviews do not use Avvo their site is base on LIES.

Date of experience: October 8, 2021
Virginia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Avvo is a Scam
April 25, 2015

I find it laughable that Conrad Saam claims Avvo brings "transparency" to the legal profession. I have not been a practicing attorney in more than 15 years, yet Avvo has me listed as an attorney in a jurisdiction in which I am not licensed to practice, and includes an old home address in that jurisdiction where I haven't lived in more than 13 years. Add to this the fact that I am on inactive status in the jurisdiction where I am actually licensed to practice, and Avvo is a joke.

Date of experience: April 25, 2015
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Two attorneys answered our question so stupidly we could not believe our eyes. The third attorney, Mark Theodore Tischhauser, clearly wasted hundreds of dollars of his clients' billing time in bullying me with comment after lengthy, rude comment. I refused to be bullied. Four comments and three hours later, he will not stop. UNBELIEVABLE. In trying to get him to cease, Avvo Support deemed that he could do as he pleased as the site primarily is to let attorneys exhibit their "knowledge". Well, his comments are SO bad, I decided NOT to delete my account so that EVERYONE CAN SEE WHAT A TERRIBLE LAWYER AND DESPICABLE HUMAN THIS "attorney" is. Sincere hope that NO ONE WILL EVER use AVVO or this attorney EVER.

Date of experience: November 9, 2020
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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AVVO is scam not honest company at all. I had bad experience with some scam attorney and tried twice but nothing.

Date of experience: December 12, 2023
Florida
1 review
8 helpful votes
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AVVO approved my review for a lawyer. Then later AVVO disapproved it. They only let positive reviews post as these lawyers are paying AVVO for marketing. AVVO is better suited for North Korea where freedom of speech is not allowed. AVVO is a nazi

Date of experience: April 24, 2017
Nevada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I've read far too many posts where usually a dealership or automotive business drove additional miles on a persons car without their permission. The ignorant responses from many attorneys is "without damages then you cannot sue"; however, many States have anti-joyriding laws, or anyone can simply search "joyriding laws" and the name of your State. AVVO has very little accountability for the people who post on there.

Always make sure to verify your odometer when you leave your car with a dealership or any business where you will hand them over your keys. Make sure the employee writes the correct odometer miles on your paper work, and then cross-verify this number with the odometer miles when you receive your car back. They should have not drove your car, and the odometer should be the same number of miles as when you left the vehicle with them unless you gave them permission to drive your vehicle by signing their service contract. You can also gather more proof by taking a photo of your odometer before handing over your keys by using a digital camera.

In short, feel free to ask them questions and you might get solid replies, but be wary that there are some attorneys who simply can care less when comes to making an inference about how to prevent your vehicle from being abused.

Date of experience: April 28, 2016
California
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Paid for site that will only allow high rated and pleasant reviews. Nothing is true about anyone on there. I tried twice to post a review about a crappy attorney and both were rejected.

Date of experience: July 25, 2016
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Removal of Facts / Tampering with evidence!
July 27, 2022

1 star is to much-
Defendant AVVO is not reliable, they criminally tampering with business records specifically removing and deleting facts "Evidence" concerning a documented thief/Felon-
Specifically Defendants WAYNE H. WINK possession of stolen property.
Police records, 911 operator and many witnesses-
Deleting facts concerning possession of stolen property- Tampering with evidence!
Took some time tracking these thief's whom robbed me January 17,2017
Respectfully Submitted and Without Prejudice "UCC1-308"
Master ralph sui Juris

Date of experience: July 27, 2022
Netherlands
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Out of dozens of questions, I have only experienced one or two attorneys who reference to specific state laws, and a couple have told me what happens during a court case regarding my legal questions should I retain legal counsel.

I have experienced multiple attorneys write their opinions that are against my situation and they do not involve crimes or violations. Topics such as legal questions about the U.S. Constitutional, legal action against employee's abusing my automobile at automotive and mechanic shops, defamation, etc. are answered with snide, sarcastic, or rude comments, lack of detail, and fact.

Numerous attorneys ask me follow-up questions, but when I answer them they rarely respond back, and this is evidence that most attorneys responding are against my legal strategy or legal questions.

To fix the problem of attorneys answering questions they are against, AVVO needs to provide mandatory rules stipulating that attorneys only can answer questions from people, they are willing to defend as their client, because they believe in a victorious court case. Otherwise, AVVO can expect a lot of negative comments to continue, and the evidence is how many one star reviews are found on sitejabber.

AVVO should also give more control to the people posting questions, we should be able to delete attorney responses at our discretion, and keep those responses that we want to select as helpful or a best answer. I should not have to send an inquiry to AVVO and experience their employee's tell me that a rude response from attorney(s) will not be deleted.

Date of experience: December 11, 2016
Arkansas
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This site suppresses the truth because they deny any review that's not positive toward the person your reviewing and that's just not fair. Not everyone deserves a positive review! They are afraid of the truth so anyone on that site does have something to hide! TRUTH IN PLAIN SITE

Date of experience: April 27, 2020
Maryland
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Avvo sucks!
October 18, 2016

I followed every one of their "guidelines" yet they refused to post my rating over and over again. Don't waste your time with them... they don't care abt getting real reviews out there.

Date of experience: October 18, 2016
Texas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Sham Biased
June 9, 2019

Wrote a review of my negative dealings with attorney Kay Goggins office. Met community guidelines, yet they chose to deny my review and not post it. This tells me they cannot be trusted.

Date of experience: June 9, 2019
New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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AVVO IS NOT A REPUTABLE LAWYER REVIEW SITE
February 3, 2023

Many people are beginning to figure out that AVVO is not a trustworthy website for posting reviews.this is just 1 of many comments warning consumers about AVVO. It would be one thing for AVVO to post NO reviews. But to post ONLY positive reviews while refusing to post fact based negative reviews is very dishonest

Date of experience: February 3, 2023
Mississippi
2 reviews
16 helpful votes
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AVVO is CRAP
July 31, 2015

All fluff and not accuracy. Anytime you want to write a bad review, they reject your review. Would stay clear of this sham. Two guy wanting to make money and that's it.

Date of experience: July 31, 2015
Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I find this lawyer from fairfax county he's very excellent lawyer Joseph h Beale I pray to god no one have any kind of trouble in life if you guys have so you can go to this lawyer he is very excellent thanks so much RABIA IBRAHIM i am not guilty and he win my case

Date of experience: November 17, 2014

Overview

Avvo has a rating of 1.2 stars from 421 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Avvo most frequently mention law firm, state bar and community guidelines. Avvo ranks 74th among Legal Documents sites.

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