Martindale.com

Without my initiation, the company has apparently added a "peer review" in violation of their own policy on their web site. I notified them that I had not initiated the "peer review" process outlined on their web site, and their response was that they would remove the alleged "peer review," but would add the notation/phrase "the attorney has chosen to suppress the review," suggesting to prospective clients that there's a problem with the rating, or there is something to hide, which isn't the case, other than the fact that I did not ask to be "peer reviewed" by Martindale. I am a sole practitioner and always have been-- there is no possible way any admin or fellow firm colleague initiated the peer review process. In other words, it's a clear mistake. However, Martindale's "solution" is unacceptable. Martindale has no right to set up the criteria on which I should be rated, (the CA Bar does this) or dictate how I appear to my clients on the Internet. This is interfering with my absolute right to run my business.

Martindale's policy is merely marketing, but at the attorney's expense--it forces attorneys to sign up for its service to gain a better rating in order to avoid looking as Martindale dictates on the Internet. According to them, my choice is to 1) have a rating I didn't initiate, or, 2) have the verbiage Martindale proposes, both of which are unacceptable.

At https://www.martindale.com website just like lawers.com do NOt give the correct information for every attorney.For example one of the former attorneys that I had hired on my divorce case Arthur Balsamo that is rated FIVE stars in the above mentioned websites has ONE review in each one of them with FIVE stars.Indeed this attorney is so greedy. All he did is he charged me $5000 up front and finished it off in two months,he misrepresented my divorce case by covering the abuse,neglect ect ect and I did not have, but one short court hearing of twenty minutes via zoom so to justify that five thousand dollars...Then if that was not enough when I KINDLY told him to add more facts to my divorce case,because he had NOT included the facts related to it had twisted the truth ect ect,this attorney refused to do so, even though I was kind and peaceful he screamed to me and my father that day that I met him to his office, when I finally had to tell him that he was not doing the job correctly which was like five months after I had hired him and for sure I had to fire him. On top of all of this he had done multiple bills in my charge for example he had sent me two bills for EACH one of these months: the months of June, July and August charging me for the same services on the same days for different amounts of money. Like for example one bill was that I had a credit for 128 dollars and for the same services at the same days I had a charge for more then $700...After I complained against him at the corrupted Fee Arbitration Office of New Jersey he won the case in a hearing that I was not even allowed to speak,even though I had written the entire story and had given it to the committee there... Arthur Balsamo was allowed to speak all of his lies and for sure his friends let him win the case. I complained again courts after courts and I am taking him to the Appellate Division of New Jersey, for federal investigations for falsifications and fraud and after that God's willing I want to sue him in civil court and charge him millions for misrepresenting my case which hurt my life and other family member's lives and also suing him for fake billing. I am not sure who gave this attorney five stars,but looks like he himself wrote a good review to make him look better. Definitely it is worth dragging these people from one court to the other so the entire world can hear who these people are. Please do not waste your time with people like him,they are the CANCER of our society.