Avvo Reviews 

I asked a question but received a condescending opinion and rudeness, never got an answer to the question. Then Dorothea Elaine Laster flagged my question because I didn't find her answer helpful. Very unprofessional.

I asked a question and it was never even addressed, just emails to try to get me to contact a lawyer in my area. It's just a bait-and-switch scam to drum up business without helping a consumer. I'd give zero stars if that were possible.

When going through my divorce and custody trial, the family court assigned a children’s attorney Dianne Braun Hanley. She was dishonest and biased from the beginning. My lawyer said she’s never seen such blatant bias. She saw the children once when their mother brought them to her office but refused to see them with me. It took weeks of back and forth and cost me over thousand dollars in legal fees to arrange that visit. The children (7 and 10 years old), told her that they want to be with each parent half the time and Dianne Hanley proceeded to tell the judge that the children asked to be with the mother. When I told the children that the judge’s decision was based and what the attorney for the children said, they screamed “SHE IS A LIAR!”. In addition, Dianne Hanley did zero investigation into this matter (she is supposed to do it according to the NYS Ethics for Attorneys for Children document) stating that “I am not a forensic investigator”. Again, the bias was so obvious that my lawyer with 25 years of experience could not believe what was happening. After that, I tried adding a review on Avvo and it was not approved since she was not retained by me (technically yes it was for my children who were 7 and 10 at the time). Do you expect the children at that age to write a review on Avvo themselves? What a shame that Dianne Hanley gets off the hook and continues to practice with a bias lying “on behalf of children”

AVVO is full of attorneys that literally have no clue as to what they are talking about and their response to alot of peoples messages are very rude and condescending. The unprofessional verbiage and the incompetent responses leads me to believe alot of those attorneys can't be real attorneys or its real easy to become a lawyer, considering their level of intelligence to the questions that are being asked.

Every time we do business with Avvo it is a great experience. They always get the job done. RZLG thanks you for your business.

We are a small local San Gabriel law firm, Rodriguez Law Group, Inc. We absolutely love this company. Very fair, reasonable and awesome.

Attorney Donna Cantor cheated on me. Not only she arranged the court to delay the case so she could collect more money, she also flipped the case to harm us. She is dishonest, unethical, and evil. Someone please stop her. From her reviews on other forums, it looks like that I am not her only victim. Avvo didn’t approve my review. They help a scammer to victimize more people. Do not trust Avvo review. Unless you write a good or slightly negative review , they will not approve it. They don’t want you

Bad experience. They will not post my review of a dishonest attorney named Kelly Rauch. I have written over ten reviews and they still will not post it and they give vague reasons/excuses why. Don’t trust AVVO!

Contacted AVVO for legal advice. Rec'd a response from someone who used terms like "LOL","FYI" and appeared to be an 8th grader pretending to be a lawyer. He paid no attention to the headline or post I made in his original answer then contradicted himself numerous times in several follow up comments, all of which had nothing to do with legality or actual law, just opinion and conjecture based on assumptions. I made a comment that his legal advice was poor and his grammar was juvenile and literally within seconds my comment and original post was removed from the site. Then after (or right before) my post was removed he tried to literally troll me on my email with more asinine comments. Is this a joke?

AVVO is not legitimate and from just some quick research, it looks like lawyers.com is aligned with AVVO. AVVO won't allow 1 star reviews for their members. From what I can tell, attorneys can pay to be AVVO members and then they gain the protection of AVVO. If an attorney is a member and/or has five star reviews on AVVO, that means they must be bad attorneys to need AVVO protection. If an attorney or firm is on AVVO, I plan on staying away.

AVVO is not an Objective WEBSITE! I too have had much trouble in getting AVVO to approve ANY less than positive review from me of my former attorney. AVVO kept rejecting my reviews. Then they finally posted a revised review only after days of back and forth responses between them ,me and a 3rd party investigative board... stating we're sorry our team made a mistake. Then almost instantly after my review was posted... they must of notified the attorney...The attorney was allowed to post a very FALSE and degrading of me,Response on the AVVO review I left.( He also called and texted me threats) I calmly submitted my response on the AVVO site, to this attorneys attack of me, pointing out all the inaccuracies and providing proof his statements were wrong, and again AVVO sent me rejections of my response! AVVO now states they DO not allow Reviewers to respond to Lawyers response! They allowed the attorney to post a response that was 3-4 times the length of my review... must of been 3000 words. Clients just cant win with these folks... very, very Biased in favor of its attorneys. I understand AVVO gets compensation from these attorneys that it gives biased Ratings/scores/reviews for. I don't understand why an Attorney General has not stepped in and fully Investigated this Clearly Biased company.. AVVO has harmed so many people who use this site to make life changing decisions of what Lawyer to choose. I know first hand, I used their site to pick this attorney 2 years ago. He was rated 9.4( Outstanding) on their site, with 5 positive reviews( no negative), turned out to be one of the worst Lawyers ever!

I tried to leave a review to a lawyer but AVVO.com keeps denying it. "I already left a duplicate review but AVVO.com is reviewing it within 48 hours but it had been 5 days NO Review was given to the attorney. This AVVO.com is bias, waste of money, and must not be trusted by anybody looking for a refutable attorney. Just go to Yelp and Google reviews more honest to goodness.

Ive tried to leave a review that was negative and it was rejected. I asked why and was told i didnt make it clear that i was a client. It gives you a box to check , the options, client or consultation. I also stated several times that i was represented. My last review they said i was putting their clients in danger for releasing to much information. These people are morons and im reporting them for false advertising. Stay away

This is a fake review site. Ive submitted multiple reviews for different attorneys, some positive, some negative. All detailed and well articulated. Positive reviews are posted instantly. All negative reviews are declined, with a completely fabricated justification as to the reasoning. The only rationale given is noncompliance with their 'community guidelines', with a short nonsensical interpretation of why your honest review did not meet their stipulations.

To the administrators of AVVO - The purpose of a review site is to post factual and informative feedback. Facts are that not every attorney will receive a positive review. Some are not out with positive intentions. Stop masquerading as an honest review site - you're not. Get your site off the web, and stop misrepresenting legal 'help' to the public

How we can trust this platform as a client.
I have a so bad experience with my previous lawyer Michael Romano, I am trying to warn other people and sharing my whole experience and write in details. Avvo declined two times my review. The note is that Michael romani didn't approved your review. How do you expect that a lawyer will accept the bad review. If this platform wants to only showing good reviews, close the review part of your platform and be honest to the users. This is my customer right I should share my good and BAD experiences wit you!!!!!

This site is irresponsible and the jerks that sign up with it are the bottom of the barrel.If you can not read and do not see what others say about it, then you deserve whatever you get out of this site. Remember, a good deal is a state of mind. So if your a fool, than it certainly will not take anyone long to scam you. This site must have really made some users mad, because my information was compromised. In today digital business, this means the site owners did not have the decency to notify me of the breach it sustained, or they compromised my information for other profitable gain, I would not given them a 1 star, but imagine that, before you can proceed, you must hit at least one. There are two kinds of people in this world, one will touch the flame and get burned and learn not to do that again. The other will do it again as if the results will change. Which are you is the question you need to ask yourself if you read more than three reviews and still contemplating.

Do not trust that you will get the whole story from Avvo because like others here that reviewed them, I share a similar experience of not having negative reviews posted. I posted an excellent review of a lawyer on there without problems, however when I tried to post my bad experience with another lawyer it kept getting rejected.

I would not recommend to trust the opinion and ranking of lawyers on Avvo.com. Its already three months I can't submit the negative review to one of the immigration attorneys in LA - Sassoun Nalbandian. Whatever you write, does not meet their guidance. It looks like only positive reviews pass the authorization............ Nonsense!!!!!!!!

Garrett Ogata is a great Lawyer who truly gets the job done with expertise! So very happy to have had him. If you're in need of a #1 Lawyer who will work very hard for your case, then you need to call Garrett Ogata.

I loved my experience with avrek law always kept me updated on my case and Emily was ALWAYS on point