Ameya Patankar dropped off the face of the earth after he was paid to set up a trust. We needed…read morefurther assistance (which we/our legal insurance would have paid for), but he would not call, respond to emails, nor return a voice message. I emailed him email asking for help with a deed, and asked him to call me....he responded via email saying he couldn't help us, vs calling as I requested. He completely misinterpreted the email I sent and would allow me the chance to provide clarity. Multiple attempts to further contact him from both my husband and I went with ZERO response. He is extremely unprofessional and rude. We feel he treated us this way because we are using legal insurance. Further we've hired a highly reputable estate lawyer who is now starting from scratch thanks to Ameya. You get what you pay for!! DO NOT RECOMMEND. Also we are complaining to our legal insurance about him. Seems many attorneys doing work with these legal plans are sub par. AVOID this firm or at least Ameya.

Ameya and the team of attorneys are very easy to work with. They are knowledgeable on many topics…read morefrom tax advice, reviewing critical contracts and providing guidance even in financial situations. I have relied on this team of attorneys expertise over the last two years and I always feel that they have my best interest at heart and are there for me when I need them. Thank you~ MiChaela

Bob and Ali's podcast are excellent! Love watching their commentary on the ongoing Karen Read court…read moreproceedings. Both are very smart and strategic.

ZERO stars!!! But u technically have to give one…read more After multiple calls and multiple e-mails sent for service, you wouldn't think a phone call or e-mail would be hard to respond to. However, e-mails or calls were NEVER returned. It's not that hard to give a simple reply saying, "Sorry, we will not take your case."

they did not include all my debts in my bankrupsy back in 2013…read more now in 2025 they one creditor that did not include is after me to pay. constant calls at home and work. now have a so called lawyer calling me asking for $4,000.00 for this walmart bill back from 2013. my anxity is through the roof. macey bankruptcy law is closed now and cunsumer coplaints related to alleged miscondut and fraudulent practices. legal and regulatory actions cusumer finacial protection bureau, law license suspensions, bankruptcy canctions, jacob & meyers bankruptcy, client deception. a disciplinary report noted that many legal helpers clients were not informated that non-attorneys were managing their cases and testified they would not have enrolled had they known.

Mark is awesome, he explains things in terms even I can understand…read more Very reliable.and trustworthy highly recommended.

Mark is excellent at his profession. He listens to his clients, and provides invaluable insight…read moreand advice. We highly recommend him. Mark and LaVerne Potjeau

Great attorney! His prices were reasonable. He made our issue a hassle-free experience. We didn't…read moreeven have to be present in court. He handled just about everything for us and got it taken care of and resolved. We are very pleased with his work! I definitely recommend Camic!

Terrible experience, wasted nearly $3000. Too much work for the lawyer to protect a father's…read morerights, so he withdrew instead, then sent notice by snail mail to inform. Was literally the old "pump and dump" scheme. Beware!

If you are thinking about hiring Matthew M. Williams as your divorce law attorney please read this…read morereview.  To fully understand my experience, I want to explain that I was married back in 2015 and had two children with a man we will call Tom that is and was a narcissist, liar, cheater, and gambler. I quickly realized this marriage was not going to work for myself or my kids filed for divorce in 2016. At the time of the divorce I was working as a nurse but I currently work as a family nurse practitioner. Tom (my kids father) stopped showing up to court in 2017 and I was awarded full custody and all rights to my kids for this reason. In February of 2023, my ex took me back to court to file for parenting time and official rights to his kids.  In between getting divorced in 2017 and returning to court in 2023, I have received little to no help from Tom with his children. In fact Tom would not see his kids for long periods of time in this time period not to anyone's fault but his own. I hired Matthew in February of 2023 to defend and support my case.  Immediately I brought up to Matt how I have been paying for my kids dental, health, sports, etc alone for years and I have receipts for many things (hoping to get this paid back) Matt then told me to gather receipts for all of these things I paid for in the past. We end up emailing back and forth for weeks about this.  It takes me a few weeks to gather all receipts (some from 5-6 years ago). I had a stack of papers of receipts that looked like an encyclopedia.  I drove out to his office in aurora and dropped off all the receipts physically.  One month later I was requesting as to why I haven't heard anything about all the receipts I dropped off...Matt responds by saying that he spoke with Tom's lawyer and there is actually nothing in the order signed in 2017 requiring him to pay for any of his kids expenses. Because Matt didn't take the time to check the original court order in 2017, I wasted hours of my time and thousands of dollars in emails discussing this  with him. He did not apologize.  We had a GAL get involved in our case. I was fighting so hard for my kids once the GAL was involved. I kept trying to ask what were the GAL's final recommendations? (Final recommendations from the GAL is really what the judge will go by). Matt told me on a phone call at one point that the GAL recommended that I get the rights to the kids. I was thrilled.  Matt then wrote up an agreement awarding me all of the parenting rights -(charged me $800 dollars to do so). We all assumed that Tom will sign it because that is what the GAL recommended.  Tom however, did not sign this agreement and said it was very far from what the GAL had recommended.  Weeks and many emails later (thousands more dollars later) I found out that the GAL awarded me rights to medical decision making ONLY. He did that because I am a Family Nurse Practitioner. Every other right was split down the middle including sports, school, religion, etc...so the agreement Matt wrote up awarding me full parenting rights was a complete waste of time and money (and frankly it confused everyone).  Finally, we came to an agreement and it was signed 8/2024. However, I recently discovered that this order unbelievably also does not specify that Tom has to pay for half of medical bills, dental, or school bills for our children. So at this point after paying 20,000$ for Matt to represent me, I still have a fairly large problem on my hands of Tom not being required to pay for my children's necessities. I am and was very angry about the wasted money and prolonged time taken due to confusion and Matt giving me misinformation about the GAL recommending me full parenting rights. He did not correctly clarify when it was easy to do so on two occasions and did not have my best interest at heart. I have to wonder if any of this was prolonged purposefully for financial gain? Can he really be that inept as a divorce lawyer?  In the end I do share rights with Tom which has worked out okay because I advocated for the correct wording in the court order to protect my children. The point is -if you want a lawyer to waste your time and money (and have no apologies for it) and do ALL and I mean ALL the work yourself then hire Matthew M. Williams, P.C.  Once the case was closed he sued me less than 4 weeks later for owing him as little as $2,000 stating he would drop his representation of me if it wasn't paid. Of course I paid him I had no other choice. Unbelievably terrible lawyer.  I reached out to Matt with all the details about why I was upset with the order not specifying Tom has to pay for his child's necessities and that is why I hired him to represent me. I was hoping he would help me correct this problem on the order that was signed in 8/2024 but he did not care and said I am on my own he did what he was hired to do.

From our initial consultation, I made it clear that I wanted the traditional parenting schedule,…read moreand nothing less. He told me that "No judge in Kane County would do 50/50." I believed him, and so I hired him. I ended up getting only one more day during the week than my kids' father, and their school weeks are split directly in half. I don't know when it happened or why, but somewhere along the line, he sided with my ex. He made careless mistakes and recommended a Guardian ad Litum (GAL) who didn't favor the traditional parenting schedule he knew I wanted. I blindly took his recommendation on this GAL, because I assumed he (as my paid legal counsel) was on my side and would fight for what I wanted - what I knew was the right thing for my kids, considering certain aspects of the case ¬- and I trusted him. In the beginning, I thought he was great; I really liked him. I knew right away he had a strong presence and I wanted that, because I wanted him to fight for me, not against me. I believe the consequence of his recommended GAL's decision is a direct result of Attorney Williams' malpractice and errors in judgment, and now, my children's lives are adversely affected for the rest of their childhoods by such a disruptive routine. And, when I confronted him with his words that he told me ... "No judge in Kane County would do 50/50," his reply to me was, "Well, you don't have 50/50, you have 1 more night." So, on top of this terrible situation for my kids, other things he's done were: * Sent an email to opposing counsel, carelessly exposing to my then-husband that I had been logging his actions, which could have been very dangerous, had he been a violent man. * He advised me to agree to the GAL's "temporary" (at the time) parenting schedule proposal, which I absolutely did NOT want to agree to, which ended up being a HUGE mistake, because she ended up making it permanent. He advised me to agree to it saying that it was "good deal," falsely assuring me it "could look very different in the end." * He rarely, if ever, informed me of court outcomes, discussions with GAL, correspondence with opposing counsel, or what his strategy was, if he even had one. * He verbally insulted me to my face in my meeting with him on Friday, June 23, 2017, when I asked him why the GAL was wanting another meeting with us saying, "Because you're both f-g nuts." He went on to accuse me of wanting my ex to fail, that I was looking for every opportunity for him to fail, and that it was a "new era" and I "have to accept it" (regarding not getting the traditional parenting schedule). * After that incident, I obtained new counsel, and she discovered that he never secured in the agreement the half childcare expenses that my ex should have legally been paying in the Court Order, but only a "friendly agreement behind chambers." This mistake delayed our case an entire year with my ex fighting paying his half of the children's expenses. Ultimately, it's not the lies and insults that drove me to speak out like this, since that sort of behavior just rolls off my back, but it's the utter betrayal of what I wanted for my children that didn't happen, and the effect this schedule has had and continues to have on their lives and wellbeing that is unforgivable in my book. In the two-year course of my case, there have been a total of six other divorce cases in this state take place in my social circle alone with every single one of them having the traditional parenting schedule or better (i.e., more stable). All he had to do was advocate for me and give me the advice I needed to protect my kids by getting that traditional parenting schedule I came to him seeking help to achieve. I trusted him. Turned out, he is lackadaisical and only concerned with father's rights, not what's in the child(ren)'s best interests. The one thing he did right was cooperate with my current lawyer on the information she needed to finalize my case. Other than that, I hope I never see his face again. I will never forgive him for what he's had a hand in happening to my children's lives. Ever.

The know ALL on the phone would not shut up. He was very rude short. He had his opinion before 1/10…read moreth of the story was said. While trying to dtop he hung up on me. Run to any other lawyer. A good lawyer listens. His ego is so loud he won't hear you. Nice way to treat a person with DISABILITIES.

How much is your fee? do you get a percentage? I had a back operation. Something went wrong in the…read moreoperating room. Doctor hit a vein. I almost bled out. You had to fix the rain. It was a five hour operation. Then I have to heal up for my regular doctor. Could do his part one the back in the front.

My mom died over a year ago, and I got impatient and vented here…read more Thank you-Robin and Faviola-for getting back to me.

Filled out the online form to get a consultation. I was in need of all of the estate planning…read moreitems, will, trust, advance directives, POA, etc.. Received a call the next day from Robin and had to let it go to voicemail as I was in a meeting. Attempted to call Robin back 10 minutes later and received her voicemail stating she would return my call in 24 hours. Left my name and cell #. Never heard back from Robin or anyone at Law Hesselbaum. Found someone else to take care of my estate needs. Seems like they did not need my business. Poor communication.

Brad was entirely professional and attentive to detail, but he was also compassionate and calming…read morewhich meant a lot to me throughout this difficult time. His motto is "not a failure...a fresh start." I felt like he encouraged me to believe that and stop beating myself up. Thanks, Brad.

From the owner: I practice bankruptcy law only and have done so for over 30 years. I handle bankruptcy cases in…read moreKane, Kendall, Will, DuPage, LaSalle and Grundy County, Illinois.