Laurie S Raphaelson

I hired Laurie after trying to negotiate my own divorce. As a business owner I was hesitant to trust anyone else to negotiate on my behalf. I couldn't have picked a better advocate. The thing about Laurie is that she doesn't beat around the bush. She knows her stuff and gets to to the point. I'm... not the easiest person to represent because I think I know everything, however, because she is so professional, she set me straight and handled everything so I no longer had to. She managed to make sense of years of financial documents in piles of paper that seemed completely overwhelming to me. Laurie is the ONLY attorney that I have ever liked. She is responsive, and most importantly a true professional. She knows what she is doing. She also was extremely adept at time management. My ex's lawyer wanted to reconvene another day and she said, "I don't think so, we can get them divorced today if you just follow me a few blocks to my office." She knows the importance of making a deal and how timing is crucial. I know that divorce can be a stressful time, but if you listen to her, and do what she says, you will be just fine. She is amazing and I love her.

From my experience, Attorney Laurie Raphaelson was not the advocate I had expected and I felt that Ms. Raphaelson did not even try to advocate my best interests. Her phone coversations consisted mostly of talking about her personal life and details of other cases she was working on or had been invol...ved in, and then charged for such calls even though majority of the call was not even addressing the case at hand. She was also two hours late for our court date because she claimed her printer wasn't working, but yet made no attempt to contact either her client or opposing counsel. I feel like she was not worth the money she charged, considering the other attorneys available. Again, just my own experience, perhaps she would be more invested in another case, but knowing the law, I felt she was not a great attorney.

Ms Raphaelson is well respected within the Worcester legal community as both a highly competent and ethical practitioner. She demonstrates a devotion to the families involved that is unprecedented in my experience. On a personal level, while Laurie remains particularly sympathetic to the plight o...f children involved in divorce, she is less so the adult participants. Probate court can be very unpleasant and as such if you are seeking 1st a sympathetic ear, look elsewhere. Alternatively, if interested in honest accurate appraisal followed up by strong, able and most importantly, credible advocacy for you and possibly your children, you can not expect to do much better. I would suggest that the previous post got exactly what he should have desired, an amicable out of court settlement worked out principally between the parties. How could Ms Raphaelson have done her job any better?