Avvo

I wrote an honest, critical review of an attorney who had caused me very serious financial harm and Avvo notified her, took the review down, and she sued me. We settled for very little, but the terms indicate that I am not allowed to write another review (with her name) -- ever! It's sad what America has come to, what the legal community has reduced itself to, and even more so, the false advertising that this woman pays people to post on this site in order to get clients. People should be warned to avoid her -- and instead, Avvo supplies her with fresh victims.

Despite the fact that I asked politely, the attorney who answered my question was extremely rude. She insulted me without responding to my questions. You can also see that many people complained about Avvo's attorneys being rude and racists.

I wrote a negative review on this attorney, it was intelligent and very truthful. Avvo approved it and then it was taken off a few weeks later. Matter of fact all of his negative reviews were removed. DO NOT trust this site! I believe they get paid by attorneys to only post positive reviews. This site is a sham. If you are looking for a probate attorney DO Not use Mark Perryman, he is all about the money and will lose your case. His lack of skill and knowledge caused me to lose my mothers estate.

My attorney only had 5 star reviews, my experience so far is 1 star All the reviews boasted on how great she was keeping you updated and explaining everything. NOPE she does the total opposite! Getting a divorce is hard but she makes is so much harder and worrisome. :( I will try to post a review again when this crap is over, it the avvo site lets me. I recommend people to also find other sites to review their experience.

Avvo misrepresents the status of attorneys and is completely lacking in transparency.

The basic business model is to scour public records for whether someone has a law license. Whether the person actually practices law is not provided. They represent all lawyers rated as practicing attorneys. Many people attend law school, get a license yet never practice law.

Once Avvo finds a public record, they have an indiscriminate algorithm to rate that individual - again, whether or not they practice law. That algorithm is not exposed to the market. How can someone assess the true rating of an attorney in absence of knowing what the measurement criteria are?

Total joke. Someone trying to make money by scouring public records. You better suited to doing individual research on a known, practicing attorney and skip Avvo.

Being a new solo practitioner, I claimed my avvo account thinking it would be good for marketing. Well they don't even list my area of practice, and now I can't get rid of the profile I claimed. I also have a 6.1 rating out of 10 on the site even though I have NO client reviews yet, no disciplinary action or client complaints, and multiple high-profile appeals and successful speaking engagements. What the heck. On top of all of that I get multiple calls per week from different AVVO representatives trying to get me to finish my profile and participate in the site. No thank you. Do not claim your avvo profile, you will regret it!

Oh please. Why would anyone believe Avvo reviews? - either good or bad reviews - when the only object of the Avvo site is to get advertising revenue and dupe desperate lawyers into paying expensive monthly subscription fees in order to get negative reviews removed while trying to procure more clients and business. Avvo is/are vultures who prey on the entire industry - both the lawyers offering services and clients in need of solid representation. Don't believe any reviews (good or bad) posted on that site!- I know from personal experience!

I've repeatedly tried to submit a review of my attorney (and not a favorable review), Nevertheless, every time I click "preview," the site tells me that I have 128 characters remaining. I've tried it numerous times, counting every character, and still, the same thing comes up.

They seem to make it impossible to submit a review, and although I've emailed them at their "contact us" address, no one bothers to answer.

My best guess is that avvo is a sham, protecting lawyers who've registered with them and protecting themselves.

This site only publishes fictitious reviews about Attorneys. If you write a honest critical review of an attorney, they take it down, and allow the attorney to deny they even know you. I stayed on top of them and asked why they took it down, and hounded them for two weeks. This attorney had no reviews for over a year, then when I demanded my negative review of the attorney be published, suddenly the attorney had two new reviews, so his score was never affected by my review. Don't trust this site, they probably are paid my the attorneys.