Avvo

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

Unlike similar legal sites which offer help and then ask you to pay, or bid to pay for services, this one is truly free and it works, too. In my experience you'll get an attorney responding within 24 hours. And it'll be a local attorney, or at least as local as the same state, so you get appropriate answers too.

You don't have the option to make your initial question into an ongoing thread, which is probably wise, as these things can quickly get bogged down. So you need to give careful thought to how you frame your question and get as much pertinent information in there as you can. Then sit back and see if you get helpful answers over the next few days, after which the question will be closed to new answers.

Think about how you title your question - there is ample room for a good title. Then use the first, limited space to describe the issue as fully as you can. You will get a chance to add additional information on the next page and the space for this appears to be unlimited.

There are, of course, thousands of questions that have been answered already and searching the site is probably a good idea before you ask one that's already been solved.

If you get a good answer, don't forget to click the "helpful" button.

This isn't going to replace an attorney and it's not intended to, but it will point you in the right direction and may save you some time and money.

I just became the account manager in our small firm and the attorney had this service, paying $341.00 a month. When I investigated what was received for that amount I was flabbergasted! Nothing. She just received a bad review at the beginning of the year from a client she had represented 4 (yes I said 4) years ago. Our firm is primarily immigration and 4 years ago the laws could not help our client who ended up having to take a voluntary departure. It was totally out of our hands and yet, AVVO allowed this former client post a terrible review about our services 2016 of January. The attorney tried to get a representative to address, she was promised a review, a call back etc... NOTHING. She followed up and still received nothing, other than an email generated that said they received hers and they would review. I, as account manager, decided to close the account. My email was ignored, I followed up and spoke with someone who said they could not find my account right then, but would investigate and call me back within the hour, which of course did not happen and that was 10 days ago. They charged our account anyway, so I had to go to bank and cancel the card that had permission. Stay away from them. It is a total scam and truthfully I have not found any leads that turned into clients. So many of them were for areas of the law that we simply do not service.

AVVO is filled with fake reviews posted by attorneys and their staff and friends. The only reals reviews are the ones where people write about their horrible experiences after hiring one of the shysters but AVVO frequently removes those or edits them. AVVO should be removed from the internet. How are they different then any other consumer fraud? One way to see if some reviews are fake is to check the court docs. For example in NYS you can go to https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/HomePage, and click search as a guest. Put the attorneys name in and you get a list of their cases. If the review has a name (although the majority of the fake reviews are anonymous) you can see if the attorney actually represented them. Every name but one that I randomly checked was a fake review.

They candy everything up to make money. I tried to post two reviews which were one star along with various others that were 5... none of the one star reviews came up. Support just simply disregarded all support tickets about the issue with the same response. NOT AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF LAWYERS ON AVVO! Just another website trying to make money making people look good even if they are federal criminals.

AVVO has defective algorithms which artificially read and post in different legal categories.
These categories are usually totally wrong and as a result you will get incorrect answers or no answers at all. They refuse to let users simple select their topic area like they used to years ago because they think it will go into the wrong category. So I might ask a business law question and get placed is a immigration category with immigration attorneys (who don't even read the question) telling me it sounds like I need an immigration attorney from my question.

Years ago when users could post the question in the correct categories, you would get good lawyers who know that area of law giving you decent answers but ever since they switched to an defective algorithm which override the users ability to pick a category, you get garbage.

My most recent question is a question about debt collecting and a writ of execution and sale of property of a debtor. My question went into a consumer product protection category instead of on debt collecting.

Until AVVO removes the algorithm which is putting question in the wrong category, the site is utterly useless.

A family member hired what turned out to be a totally incompetent, and possibly fraudulent attorney in Bellevue, WA named Jenny Cochrane. She not only reneged on her $1,500 "flat fee" agreement with him, she then had the nerve to charge him an additional $1,000, then called him two weeks after taking the extra money and told him he was..."on his own..." and there was nothing more she could do. A total lying, incompetent scumbag - stay away. This is one situation where you are better off representing yourself! I was able to verify via third parties that 80% of her positive reviews are fakes, either from her (using fake email addresses) or phony "clients." She even faked a positive review from the family member she essentially stole money from! The one posted negative review is real, but probably won't last since AVVO.com is a scam website designed to dupe consumers into thinking their positive ratings are legitimate... Most of the lawyers on the site and AVVO itself are a complete joke!

Finding out the so-called legal minds there can't advise if someone lies on governments form is a crime or not. Very sad this is what we now have after #45s time in office.

AVVO is the most ridiculous, non-merit based "rating" system on the planet. I feel awful for anyone who is really looking for help and relies on this website. AVVO's ratings are based on how often an attorney answers free questions on AVVO (accuracy in answering is irrelevant to AVVO-- just some words typed gets you points), and based on how many of their lawyer friends they can get to "endorse" them. ACTUAL CLIENT REVIEWS AND EXPERIENCE ON AVVO ARE IRRELEVANT TO AVVO'S RATING PROCESS. AVVO would be a complete joke if it weren't playing a serious game with people's lives. STAY AWAY FROM AVVO!

I cannot believe there is not an avenue available for the public to post about bad attorney practices without the potential of us (the client) being sued by deceptive and even illegal practices by lawyers. Can they just charge us anything they want even though they do not the job that was instructed? I had an attorney that could not even write a cover letter without grammatical errors and content mistakes. However, he charges nearly $300 an hour? He also made major changes to my original legal documents without my consent and said I needed to report my spending activities to him on an annual basis? There is no reason for any of this. Yet this person demands payment and shows absolutely no results. AVVO does not help us (the client) that is made to pay high legal fees as it will not allow honest reviews on the attorney websites. Even if this was honored by AVVO then the potential of being sued by an incompetent attorney looms large. I wonder how many of these "five star" reviews are actually created by the attorneys themselves as so many are listed as "anonymous". AVVO should be shut down as it does not help anyone except the attorneys for who it was created to begin with.

I'm an attorney and I saw that Avvo created a "profile" of me without ever communicating with me. The profile had the wrong photo, misinformation about my practice and my location. Ultimately, I "claimed" the profile to correct the misinformation. Except that resulted in my receiving a flood of phone and email solicitations from Avvo. I resisted. Ultimately, someone on the phone got me on a good day and convinced me to pay for a 90-day trial where I would receive endless phone calls and new business for $99 dollars a month. I did the trial. The day after I signed up, the person who was supposed to be my contact was leaving Avvo. He was never replaced. I received one phone call in 90 days from a mentally ill person, and no cases. I can write off the $300 as advertising, but I just came from checking my credit card transactions and found that they billed me again for another (4th) month. Just checked my "profile" to find a 6.5 rating and an (855) number listed for my business. Avvo is a scam. I reported their unauthorized charge to my credit card as fraud.

I sympathize with the recent negative reviews. First, they basically block any negative feedback you post. Three times I modified my review and each time it was rejected for not meeting the guidelines. Their online customer service reps are rude and unhelpful. When I informed Anna, a senior customer care representative that their site is only allows for positive reviews to be posted, she replied with a snarky remark. Screenshot is enclosed of her bogus explanation. It is obvious that their main objective IS to help unscrupulous attorneys save face. I agree wholeheartedly with one reviewer that stated that we cannot file formal complaints with the regulatory board. If you file a complaint, the attorney can sue you for slander or defamation if you post your experience online. Avvo is not a reliable platform to find a reputable attorney.

The Schiller Kessler Group
My fiancé and I used this firm when we got into a car accident. Our case manager was rude and incompetent. Poor communication and representation overall. Our attorney only cared about settling quickly and collecting his attorney fee. We have used law firms in the past and this was by far the worst experience. We have tried to share our experience on Google but the firm continues to flag and delete our reviews to save face.

I am a lawyer who recently opened up his own practice. Within a month I was contacted by Avvo representatives telling me that they would highlight my profile on their website to potential clients searching for certain key words. They worked with me to manipulate my ranking as well. They asked me for a three-month subscription and that I needed to order it before the end of the month to take advantage of a special rate. I agreed.

I received zero leads, much less actual clients, from this investment. On top of that, the billing is recurring (should have listened to my own advice and read the contract more carefully). SO when I called on the billing day, the first of the month and said I wanted to cancel, they said my subscription would end at the end of the month. Since it was the first of the month I had already been billed and they refused to issue me a credit for a month. Thus, as a new business on a tight budget I flushed nearly $1000 down the drain on this poor excuse for a lead generator. They are happy to take your money. Beyond that Avvo is good for nothing.