Avvo has a rating of 1.2 stars from 418 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Avvo most frequently mention law firm, state bar, and community guidelines problems. Avvo ranks 60th among Legal Documents sites.
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There are truly No Words to express how my Attorney Jerry Bodow has been a true blessing in my life. Jerry an his staff have been family to me and have looked out for me throughout a 7+ year case. They have worked tirelessly hard for me and my family. The support, friendship and love they have shown words can't describe enough. Jerry I am blessed to have you as my attorney and friend. Thank you for all your expertise, friendship and love.
AVVO is scam not honest company at all. I had bad experience with some scam attorney and tried twice but nothing.
AVVO is scam not honest company at all. I had bad experience with some scam attorney and tried twice but nothing.
I'm an attorney and was suckered into advertising/marketing with Avvo. To date, I have received exactly zero leads or return on the investment. I have contacted multiple people with Avvo including but not limited to my account rep and have received nothing but silence. You might as well flush your money down the toilet because it will be less frustrating and equally as profitable as advertising or marketing with Avvo / Nolo / Martindale.
Tip for consumers:
Do not give Avvo or any of its affiliates even $1.
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Avvo elite profile and sponsored listing
I hired David King in 2015. We paid him $500 and never heard from him again. All his numbers are disconnected and his email address is no longer active. I posted the first negative review on AVVO in 2019. It was denied. I posted another in 2023, it was also denied. I only stated the facts as stated here. We were suing our homeowners insurance for bad faith. We never were able to get the resolution. We tried to warn others who may come in contact about out issues.
My lawyer from avvo was inexperienced and unethical. Avvo approved my review on her in 2021, then took it down in 2023 claiming I was not detailed enough. I was very detailed about what I experienced. The lady did not know law. Avvo refuses to protect future victims of this woman by not allowing people to see what she has done.
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.
My last message to Avvo:
As a veteran with multiple honors, and someone who has served his Country in numerous ways for decades, your organization is part of the problem in this Country.
Since you won't stand up for what's right, I won't be wasting anymore time on you. There's other places I can leave reviews about the attorney's behavior. I will also leave reviews about your lack of help and behavior. SHAMEFUL!
I paid for online marketing through Avvo - it was longer term contract (which should have been a warning sign). After experiencing what seemed to be basically no new traffic, I contacted them about it. I thought they might be able to help by adjusting an algorithm of helping me get our Avvo profile set up better. I didn't get much from them aside from excuses about how we are in a specialized area. I ended up paying a large fee to cancel the contract and received no concessions (or even sincere concern) from Avvo. Terrible business decision - I definitely regret it. Would strongly recommend finding other ways to advertise.
I had a terrible experience with a completely disrespectful and rude "attorney". I submitted an appropriate review but it was rejected. Stated it violated their guidelines, but offered no details. I read their guidelines and found no violation. I resubmitted a negative review to reflect the experience but it was rejected again. This happened 4 more times. I then see many others also stating that the site deletes the negative reviews and I wanted to express that the same happened to me. Very disappointing site to say the least, about on par with the level of attorneys on it. I do not recommend to anyone looking for good service.
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I had a terrible experience with a completely disrespectful and rude “attorney”. I submitted an appropriate review but it was rejected. Stated it violated their guidelines, but offered no details. I read their guidelines and found no violation. I resubmitted a negative review to reflect the experience but it was rejected again. This happened 4 more times. I then see many others also stating that the site deletes the negative reviews and I wanted to express that the same happened to me.
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None, their attorney pool is terrible. Same as their customer service.
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
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AVVO DENIES ALL NEGATIVE FACT BASED REVIEWS WITH THE SAME REJECTION EMAIL. THEY CLAIM THAT YOU HAVE VIOLATED THEIR GUIDELINES YET REFUSE TO STATE WHAT PART OF THE REVIEW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED OR REMOVED..YOU WILL GET THE EXACT SAME MESSAGE NO MATTER WHAT ..AS SOON AS THEY SEE A LOW RATING THEY DENY IT..I OFFERED TO PROVIDE PROIF ..THEY IGNORED ME
Avvo used to be a great directory. In the past few years, it has dropped off in the search results. There are multiple reps reaching out sporadically with no consistency so if you have a firm with several attorneys, there is no coordination and each attorney gets harassed by different reps. The last rep I had canceled meeting after meeting so I finally had to ask his manager for a new rep so we could get our spend down. Very frustrating.
Ask a lawyer, get an automated answer with no follow-up. Like I haven't already read the suggested sites. This site went downhill fast.
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I wrote an honest review about the attorney that replied to me through their website because after reviewing the book of records I rounded up, he couldn't help me and that's fair enough but I asked to pick up my records for a doctors appointment 4 days away and he told me he wasnt going to make a special trip for me but that i could try in a week. He disputed it, Avvo deleted my review without question.
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
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Would not recommend AVVO due to covering and deleting facts on a thief concerning legal fictions named WAYNE H.WINK-
Most things are fiction, and fictions create other fictions.
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Online services reviewing the honest facts concerning AVVO and Defendants WAYNE WINK et al.
Many witnesses including Police reports.
Defendants never showed up for Jury trial either concerning criminal activities-
If an atty doesn't like your question, avvo let's him attack you verbally. When he doesn't like your comment to his answer, it's removed. 3 times I actually had my question removed. Then he calls his buddy to attack me too. Avvo doesn't care, they just kept removing my question and responses while leaving their lawyers up. Worthless place with worthless lawyers. Oh, and my reviews of those 2 lawyers? Never posted.
Tip for consumers:
avoid. Not worth your time.
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This is a free service, and still not worth the cost.
Don't trust Avvo reviews. They do not post bad reviews, the lawyer are paying them for the good reviews. All fake.
I am not some lawyer from the back of a bus, but an in-house lawyer without any skin in the game, so my sole purpose in asking that my personal information be removed is to deter stalking. But apparently, Avvo will only act on court order. So crossing my fingers that I don't get killed by my ex! LOL. Avvo, Martindale, and Internet Brands... you are unethical. (I can't imagine the poor souls who think that this is a way to find or legitimately rate lawyers! Just go to the lawyer's state bar site.)
Their sales team is relentless in contacting attorneys for payment and paid things...
Then, LOL 2022, they have boomer attorneys who are literally sitting on the internet drunk at night troll answering questions like they are talking to a trash off the street. $#*! off avvo. Never you again. Bad times pass, bad reputations stay. Clean your house omfg. I get traumatized by a bunch of $#*! up boomers for asking a question. Yahoo answers had better moderation that your piece of $#*!.
Attorney marketing is a complete rip off. Their sales staff promise leads and acts very optimistic when convincing you to sign on. I have received ZERO leads since signing a six month contract that they refuse to cancel.
I've had two different bad attorneys and they refuse to allow me to speak the truth. They only allow good ratings, so don't trust them.
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I posted a question on the website 31 days ago. Absolutely no response. The question was in reference to sales of handgun to an individual.
Since I had no response I chose to call a local attorney. Just another way for an attorney to get clients.
Avvo denies ALL real, validated, with evidence, reviews. It's only purpose is to promote.
Honest review platforms permits the good & the bad (especially when evidence is provided) so the consumer does not get scammed by the lying lawyers who shouldn't be lawyers!
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Do not trust - not a balanced review platform - but a promotional site
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Wouldn't let me make a bad review. Attorney wouldn't reply. There's not many attorneys out there that don't let you make free consultation. Now if I had book an hour of there time for that same question it would have cost them but no return gratitude for it. Just rude to me, just ignore someone especially considering if I had showed up in person. Anyhow, you can't complain about that. Not caring enough to reply should reflect a person attitude. This attorney didn't care and people should know that. You can't trust a site that doesn't allow bad reviews.
It is all a scam. First, my charge increased at some point without explanation. Second, the legal questions to add to the rating are garbage. One would think they would screen the questions instead of letting people submit nonsense. Case in point, a person age 40 realizing only recently that she believed she had anxiety from a teacher slapping her at at age 12. In addition to that, it is very difficult to cancel.
This court appointed lawyer never touched bases with my son his client or our family. Only to misrepresent my son on a Attempt murder charge which no one was shot or hurt! He now facing 10yrs! College student life gone down the drain trusting this man! My son was smart enough to appeal the case which kolher had to testify he was responsible for being charged the highest guidelines! He's very forgetful and needs to retire!
I have hired 2 separate attorneys from their site and both attorneys were completely incompetent. When I tried to leave an honest review of my experience Avvo kept on rejecting my negative review saying it violated community guidelines. I submitted 4 other reviews and every single one of them was denied by Avvo. Avvo is extremely biased towards their customer (the attorneys who are paying to be on their site) and won't let me leave an honest review. I'm sure I'm not the only one with the same issue and I will do everything in my power to start a CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT against them. I lost tens of thousands of dollars by hiring attorneys that had high ratings in their site.
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