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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AVVO is scam not honest company at all. I had bad experience with some scam attorney and tried twice but nothing.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Answer: AVVO is managed by attorneys for attorneys. It is a recipe for deception, self-interest and greed.
Answer: I believe it's a scam. There is no correlation between how good an attny is and their avvo rating. Based upon my personal knowledge of several attorneys that i have become very familiar with since unwittingly believing avvo information i would warn people not to trust this site for an impartial assessment of attorneys.
Answer: What is being asserted about rejection of negative reviews is absolutely consistent with my experience. Don't waste your time.
Answer: You actually can't place bad review or rating for attorney anywhere, including Martindale Hubbell or similar websites. Even if bad review is approved and posted, it will be removed by attorney request in a few days.
Answer: Because AVVO is a scam service that inflates attorney ratings, but systematically blocks negative reviews. Avoid at all costs.
Answer: It's BAD! Don't trust AVVO! A lot of attys put 5 STAR reviews about themselves and will have the 1 star reviews removed. BEWARE of your atty if s/ he has a 6.5 or has a lot of 5 STAR reviews and still not a high score
Answer: I am an attorney and had contact with this company years ago when it posted my "profile" without my consent, apparently scraping it from some legitimate source like the state bar website. I was assigned a low rating (6.5/10) based on no reviews whatsoever and encouraged to join and get recommendations from other attorneys on the site to raise my rating. I'm a 20+-year practitioner with no complaints from clients or the bar. Quite simply, it's a scam along the lines of "America's Who's Who" where the people listed in the database are the source of income for the enterprise. If attorneys don't "join" and pay they're added to the database without their consent and assigned a random low rating pulled out of nowhere. I don't see any basis to rely on "Avvo" for attorney recommendations. Try Martindale-Hubbell or recommendations from the local bar association real-life attorneys.
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.