Steven R. Merritt

Horrable lawyer. I paid $3,500 for my custody case, my case was almost over i only needed him for two court hearings he did not do much to help me. One time he told me to meet him at the court to discuss the case, he never showed up i called and called him no answer. Hes a horrible lawyer, im upset h...e took so much money from me and didnt do anything. DONT EVER GO TO HIM!

I payed him 1500 up front for my divoce/annulment in June 2014. Did not hear anything for months while he "prepare my case." When I did make contact he was usually doing something in his personal life in Maine. It is almost June 2015 and I have only been in front of a judge on one occasion. This init...ial date was part my doing because I filed on my own behalf before hiring him. I had to frequently threaten reporting him to the bar for him to respond to me and then I would finally hear back with a date of my next court appearance. I never received any of my documents in the mail during this one year of wasted time despite several requests. He never updated me and I had to take a last minute day out of work on more than one occasion only to get to court where he was seeming unprepared. He frequently would blame the opposing council for the complete wasted day. Excuse after excuse after excuse. Buyer beware......you get what you pay for! I too could go on for hours with examples of how my time was wasted. Additionally, I was unable to speak with opposing council throughout this process to figure out what was going on either. Apparently it is against the rules while I technically "had an attorney." If you are reading this because you are having a similar experience you should seek alternate council sooner rather than later. I allowed this to go on much longer than necessary because I already paid him and didn't want to fork out additional money to someone else. Don't wind up like me and be back a square one almost one year later.

I paid him 1500 down last October 2014 to intervene in a case for my grandchildren . He did nothing until January 2015, he would not even give me the court date then called and said the judge would not allow it.. He also had me due adoption papers and overnight them to him witch I did then he never p...icked them up!! And so on I could go on for days about what he did wrong!!