Steven R. Merritt

Hired for divorce and he did not represent me well. Was always late in respondiing in a timely fashion. Was supposed to have meeting with opposing attorney for resolution and he canceled 2 times. Then on the final pre-trial hearing he was going over last minute paperwork with me for an hour and ke...eping spouse and the opposing attorney waiting and making spouse pay their attorney (hourly fee) waiting for him to get onboard in a timely fashion. And on top of that, he gets mad at my former spouse for speaking up about his negligence and lack of preparation. Also, was quoted $1,500 for divorce and it end of being about twice that!! BUYER BEWARE!! If you want progress and good representation DON'T HIRE Attorney Merritt.

I was quoted $1500 for my divorce. Once the divorce was done and a final bill received, I was being billed twice as much! I was told the case was more difficult than originally anticipated so the cost was more (never once was I informed during the process that it would cost me more). The paralegal.../office manager/wife is a trip to deal with. She is very manipulative in her behavior towards clients. IF you have hired this lawyer, do yourself a favor and keep ALL communications between you and the office as you may need them to prove your case in front of a judge.

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.