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Just abt all the lawyers on there are snooty,self rightous,smartaz know it alls who dgafa"wedaPpl".

N thats the troooof bruh

As a consumer, I do not expect Avvo to be a substitute for an actual attorney. But sometimes you don't need legal advice, per se, you just have a legal question (like what form do you need to file for XYZ or what does Civil Code ZYX mean). Now and then you get a straight forward and useful response, most of the time, you get useless, incomprehensible, "legalese" that ends with "consult a local attorney." If the consumer understood the "legalese" used within the worthless response, he wouldn't need to ask Avvo or any attorney registered with it for that matter.

Even worse, some attorneys use the questions section to berate the questioning consumer, jumping to conclusions when they've only been given a fraction of the facts and issuing insulting commentary without knowing what they're talking about; that is a MAJOR turnoff. Some Avvo attorneys are childish "Mean Girls" both he-girl and she-girl. Even this site has trolls... how unfortunate.

Again, I do not expect free legal advice; plenty of attorneys offer consultations. Sometimes you don't need full-blown advice, you simply have a question. If Avvo's attorney's do not want to answer legal questions, then they should stay off the "Ask a Legal Question" page---DUHHH! Sometimes Avvo is helpful, mostly it's not... it's a coin toss.

First I would like to say that whenever I post my question I reread it multiple times and make sure that it is very easy to understand so I could get a proper answer. That being said, I have gotten one good advice from this website. Whenever I post a question I'm lucky to even get 1 out of maybe 5 lawyers to remotely answer the question I had asked. The majority of the answers people give me barely have to do with the question I have asked, it's as if they just say whatever they think does something with the subject of my question for the hell of looking like they know what they're doing. So far, out of all the questions I've asked, only 1 person has actually answered my question and was clear about what I had to do. Even with all that, I would still come back again because even though the majority of the people who "answer" my question end up saying something that doesn't even answer my question at all, I believe that there are a few people who are actually able to comprehend what I'm asking and ACTUALLY answers my question.

I am a retired college professor and engineer. I had a bad experience with an Atty who misappropriated a large sum of money from me and then stopped all communication. He is clearly dishonest and unethical. My review stated that he was ordered by the Arbitration Judge to pay me; he was further ordered by a Superior Court judge to pay me. He has not paid, was evicted from his apt ( public record) and has disappeared. Cal Bar website shows he has been disciplined in past and his license suspended twice. I reported this and AVVO refused to publish my review... withoiut explantion! I note that 6 mo. Earlier his name was presented in RED with a negative review but that review has disappeared and he remains a 5 star lawyer. Equally troubling is the fact that there are other lawyers on the site giving him high recommendtations. Either they are part of his scam, dont know who or what he is or just dont care. AVVO has some good attorneys sharing good info with the public but their Lawyer recommendations and star ratings cannot be trusted if they refuse to publish negative reviews or make it easy to remove them.

I can only say this is the hardest working team i ever had pleasure defending me oh i get in some trouble no doubt miss Maria is so on top of the case constantly keeping me in the knowhow and know what This team worked very hard and over a period of time never letting me down never letting me not know court dates plea bargains and everthang involved they are very professional and a very GREAT TEAM on the board I highly and strongly recommend the Rafael de la Garza Team myself I know that if they are on your side they FIGHT not roll over n whine Thank All of the Rafael de la Garza Team your in my prayers don gerlock

Recently I placed a review on avvo.com, only to have them deny the reviews. The reviews were for San Diego attorneys Irving Pedroza, and Ashley Negrette. The reason for providing reviews, was because of their excellent assistance in supporting some of our family clients that needed their assistance. Avvo.com denied the reviews stating that they were not in compliance with their policy, because they were broad. I contacted avvo.com to explain and prove to them the services that were provided by both of these attorneys, to which they continued to refuse to post the reviews. I replied a number of times, to have them continue in denying to post the reviews. I believe this is completely unethical for them to pick and choose which reviews to post for attorneys. Especially considering these were positive reviews, in no way inflammatory or anything like that... I then let them know I would be posting a review so the public would be alerted to their obvious bias, to which they were nonresponsive.

The side will remove your review. I believe they are not interested to help people to find honest attorney but promote each other's.

I am pleased to let you know that Attorney Michael Tierney provided excellent service in resolving my claim. He did an excellent job.

As others have stated, that rarely answer questions. They waste your time. I asked to simple questions about defamation.