Michael Whitman

Review of Smith Strong, PLC

I only wish I could give less stars. After eight m...

I only wish I could give less stars. After eight months of being pushed around and bullied, giving the ex whatever she wanted and paying the "lawyer" seven grand, the day I fired them I was told " but I'm ready to fight for you now"
They were supposed to be fighting for me the whole time. Huge waste of time and money, in three weeks the new lawyer got things taken care of.
And if you do get stuck using them make sure they send you any correspondence between lawyers BEFORE it gets sent to opposing counsel, I had a nice surprise of basically agreeing on a settlement amount. An amount I told Smith strong I would go to court before paying her, to bad Smith strong decided the amount for me and completely ignored my desires and instructions.
I also had to pay Smith strong to make corrections to paperwork, things like the year make and model of my truck. How do you get that wrong if you keep notes and pay attention or care about what your doing? And why did I have to pay for them to fix they're mistake that shouldn't have happened to begin with? And the settlement agreement looked very boilerplate, not sure why it cost 1700 to add names and vehicles to a template, if that is what it really was. When van Smith himself just kind of smiled at me when I was relating some issues I should have fired the firm then, instead I let them talk me into another few months of pouring money into them.
To be clear van Smith was NOT my lawyer, but a member of his firm was.
Call around and ask lawyers about them, don't go by reviews. Going by the reviews cost me thousands of dollars and many months of stress and lost sleep. I shouldn't have trusted a law firm that claims they are a "boutique" firm, wish they said that from the beginning and I had a better idea of who I was dealing with. Dissatisfied, disappointed and a whole bunch poorer now to say the least. I wish I could give the name of the new lawyer to save people the time in purgatory I was stuck in, good ones are out there. Call around and see who your dealing with before giving up that cash.