Ruth Laura Edlund's Reviews

Lawyer's Comment: I represented this client briefly from November 2004 through February 2005 and withdrew well before her trial date. She canceled one appointment with me, but there were no appointments that I missed. I am sorry to hear that this client has a difficult walk of life, but this cannot be laid at my doorstep. Here is a quote from the trial court's ruling regarding this client: "The mother exhibits behavior and thoughts that are bizarre including, but not limited to, threatening harm to the child to manipulate the father, threatening harm to the father, threatening harm to herself, stating to the father that the child is dead, screaming at the father while breastfeeding the child, and slapping the father in the presence of the child. Threatening to kill the child and herself. The Court further finds that the mother's judgment is grossly impaired and she is unable to distinguish fiction from reality with respect to the child's weight loss. . . . The mother has been in conflict with most of the professionals she has dealt with including firing four of the child's pediatricians, getting into an argument with a nurse, changing her lawyers four times during the dissolution proceedings and creating conflict with the child's nanny causing the nanny to quit temporarily. The mother's poor judgment and lack of impulse control continues to be present. " Here is a quote from the Court of Appeals: "Regardless of [this client's] intentions when she threatened her child's life, whether the threats were short term in nature or intended to punish [the father], the trial court had sufficient evidence to find that [this client] suffered from long term emotional impairment and her behavior posed a serious danger to [the child's] psychological development."

hotcaphe007's Comment: Ruth can say whatever she wants to defend her reputation as an attorney, but the fact remains that if you plan to hire her, then do so at your own peril.

Law Geek's Comment: I think it is out of line for Ms. Edlund to reveal details of the complainers case in this forum. She could have just addressed the complaints without revealing personal details (in her view). That Ms. Edlund poorly represented the poster and now sites the results of her poor representation as proof of a problem with the poster...reveal the circular arguments of King County lawyers. Quoting from a court documents without context? THAT'S OKAY WITH MS. EDLUND. There is no oversight of attorneys and they want this website to read ******** ALL STARS for ALL ATTORNEYS. I am flagging her post, you shouldn't be able to reveal quotes from a persons trial without context. That is one bad, and malicious attorney. She wouldn't pass a MMII Psych eval, that's for sure.