Steven R. Merritt

I had to continually check in with him after the majority of my case was settled (and he was paid), terrible at responding, terrible at follow through. Never answers your call, or replies to email. Took another 3 years for him to finish my case. There are many lawyers out there, avoid this one at al...l costs.

I hired Steve Merritt November 2016 for a criminal defense case. He was prompt, organized, and very caring. He discussed with me in detail how the situation could be approached, and what the possible outcomes could be. I had a very positive outcome due to his professionalism and honesty with my ca...se. I rehired him to handle a petition to partition situation with a very difficult ex. While this is a long process that has not yet concluded, Steve has been just as thorough, caring, and professional as before. He researched several different approaches to my problem, decided on the best approach, discussed in detail with me how he came to his decision, and thus proceeded. He is responsive when I have a concern, and very kind and helpful regarding my financial situation. I also find his paralegal to be very kind and helpful.

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!!