I highly regret hiring this law firm for my divorce, only bigger regret I have was not terminating…read morethe relationship with this firm sooner. I filed my divorce petition myself, yet this firm managed to burn through more than 90% of my retainer on clerical/administrative tasks. No petitions were filed, no progress made to further my case yet the bills just kept coming. Many emails I sent to the firm went ignored/unanswered, including an email about a billing discrepancy. One email I sent sat for 3 weeks unanswered, and only got addressed because I brought it to Dan's attention. Letters were written with typos/mistakes. I proofread letters, addressed mistakes and letters were still sent out with only partial corrections made, I then got billed for addressing the mistakes. I needed a court order to retrieve my dogs from a hostile situation pertaining to my divorce. Dan printed off a public form, had his paralegal fill in the couple of sentences necessary on the form.....with typos, and then handed me the document so I could go represent myself to the courts on this matter. Of course I was billed the premium hourly attorney rate for the handoff of this document. My hourly meetings with Dan that are, of course, charged the premium hourly attorney rate were filled with stories and other cases that had nothing to do with me or my case. My initial meeting, Dan was completely unprepared and blamed it on "not having ink in the printer as the ink had not been delivered yet" and proceeded with basic pinpoints that we went over on the fly as he had not even read my intake packet. If he had read it and was prepared, he would of already known the answers to some of the questions he asked me. I was also billed on 5 separate occasions, the premium hourly attorney rate, for the same copy/paste "billable work" which was "met with paralegals to discuss previous weeks tasks and upcoming weeks task". Only tasks performed were the basic clerical/administrative tasks of uploading documents to my file and emails that were repetitively asking info they already had or emails that, had there been internal communication, shouldn't of been sent at all.....anything and everything was used to get that "billable work performed". The financial burden this has put on me to terminate this relationship and hire new counsel is monumental. It will take years to recoup from this.

If I could rate a zero, I would. I have waited to post this review since I needed the last of my…read morefinancial paperwork to be completed. I interviewed Mr. Dodds about my divorce and he was compassionate, sympathetic and "a Christian" and would help me deal with my divorce where I had been financially abused for decades. Turns out, had I researched deeper, I would find this is his way of signing clients, only to turn them over to incompetent "jr lawyers". I was handed over to William Welch and the drain of my money began... nearly $30K in attorney costs and billing that didn't match what I was getting. I repeatedly had to call and question charges. Welch was beyond incompetent, telling me things wouldn't rule in my favor "because the judge just doesn't like him." The problem was the judge was holding him accountable for doing his job. I got handed nearly the highest alimony rate allowed, was told I could petition for marital waste ... it was just lie after lie. I believe he was in cahoots with my husband's attorney, who was equally as incompetent. The bills came left and right and zero progression on my case. Stalling ... and more stalling. Then magically Welch leaves the firm. No notice, no nothing. My case handed to TJ Coons who told me it wasn't his fault he got brought into the case late. Mr. Dodds no where in sight. I received a letter shortly after signing up with him that he was "retiring" and because of his health issues, he could no longer represent clients. But it appears he continues to take in clients. Had I read the reviews that I ended up reading later, I would have seen this bait and switch he has pulled on several clients. Interesting, when I started complaining, all of a sudden all these 5 star reviews started appearing about the firm. In the office, they openly solicit reviews ... I would challenge that many must be fake. There's too many that happened all at one time. I ended up firing the firm, went pro se - and magically got my divorce completed on my own within 30 days. I wasted so much money with this firm. It was a complete disgrace they are allowed to prey on people the way they do - Mr. Dodds saw a broken woman with a failed marriage of 34 years and saw I had some money and proceeded to take as much of it as he could. William Welch - buyer beware. He left the firm, but I hope this review comes up with people google for him ... he was in over his head from day 1 and worthless. I had to read the law to him on more than one occasion. A waste of time and energy. Lies and false expectations is the name of this firm. Again, buyers beware. Not that I trust any attorney, but I would never in a million years recommend this firm to anyone unless you have money to just give away.