My father and mother set up their trust and estate planning with Gilmore, Rees, and Carlson, P.C…read more in Wellesley, MA, many years ago. My parents recently passed away. The lawyer at Gilmore, Rees, and Carlson, now handling the estate never knew my parents. His handling of the estate, in my experience, has consistently not been compassionate, respectful, professional, nor trustworthy. The highlight of Gilmore, Rees and Carlson's disrespect was their display of covert racism toward my family's heritage. When their offensive disrespect of my parents was brought to the attention of the attorney and the managing partner, they offered no apology, and instead, sent a reply that was hostile, defensive, projecting and clearly unapologetic. If my father were still around, and he experienced this, he'd have fired Gilmore, Rees and Carlson. Disrespecting the living is bad, but intentionally disrespecting the deceased, who's money is paying their legal fees is in a word, disgusting.

If you have money to throw away, this is the firm for you. They are way overpriced and they nickel…read moreand dime you. If you call the office to speak to your attorney, they will never come to the phone. You are always told that they are in a meeting. So you speak to the secretary who in turn emails the attorney with your message. You will be charged for the time it takes the attorney to read your message of about 2 sentences. Over the years, the secretaries were very highly seasoned qualified people. But they have all been replaced with inexperienced, sloppy people who never worked in a law firm before so don't expect much help from them. When you receive your draft package of estate plan documents after waiting so long for them, you will see--no page numbers on a 40 page trust and other errors. This way they hire cheap help and pad their pockets with the money they are saving. Lawyers are a dime a dozen and there are better firms to hire. My association with this place has come to an end.

I was blessed and lucky to have found Atty. Maura Melcher…read more She is a very detail oriented person. She is compassionate. She is very knowledgeable and very honest. She is very focused and listens to all your needs and worries. And she tries to find a solution to all the worries. She has guided me well.

Well, after a really bad experience with another attorney, that pretty much talk all my money…read morewithout doing anything, i was pretty defeated when i called attorney Nicholson. She was pretty detailed oriented, organized, flexible, and friendly. I was extremely happy with her services and outcome of my case and without a doubt will recommend her.

Michael Knight is non-responsive and negligent, he accepted and quickly cashed retainer fee. But…read morenever provided a fee schedule, receipt, contract agreement or itemized statement of services rendered or lack thereof. I have called his office and cell phone many times over several months now and his secretary always tells me that he is unavailable. All I have is a copy of the check I wrote for the retaining fee and the option to report him to the Board of Bar Overseers. Was going to skip on the bad review but would hate for this to happen to someone else. If you're looking for an attorney, steer clear of Michael Knight of Mansfield, MA.