Marc William Miller

I regret having used Miller as our lawyer. Their office was really disorganized and this caused multiple issues and headaches for us. They drew up power of attorney papers for us so that I could close on our house alone without my husband physically present (he has a small business and lost hours wou...ld have been expensive). We got them electronically notarized and according to my email records, I sent them to their office on Thursday Nov 12. We were set to close on Tues Nov 17 at 3pm, but it wasn't till the morning of the closing day on Nov 17th that they sent the power of attorney papers to the bank and title company, and learned that there were issues with the power of attorney documents and we couldn't use them. Long story short, the only way we were going to close as scheduled, was if my husband drove from his work from NYC into Kingston where the closing was (this is 2+ hours each way). So my husband ended up doing this because delaying closing would have potentially been very expensive, but it was extremely stressful and costly for him to have to cancel all his meetings and come up in the last minute. What makes me most angry is that Marc would not take responsibility for any of this, originally saying something like, "we only got the papers in on Monday and my assistant was out that day" (um- even if that were the case, that is no excuse, and at any rate, I later checked and saw that I had actually sent the papers Thurs Nov 12 so there was PLENTY of time to look for issues). At another point on a call with my (very upset) husband, he made excuses for their mistake by saying "the rules keep changing" (um, that is what we are paying you for! To KNOW THE RULES, otherwise known as LAWS). His excuses actually kept shifting, and I think this was because ultimately he had no good reason for the mistake.  The mistake was very stressful and costly to my husband's small business, but I understand that mistakes get made. What was unforgivable was the lack of owning up to the mistake. It just showed a complete lack of integrity. If he had at least apologized, or better yet, offered some kind of discount for the mistake they had made, I would have let it go, and I would not be writing this review. I actually hate writing negative reviews for people, but I just feel that people should know what they are getting into when they decide to do business with this office. Side note: there were actually several other mistakes as well (misspelling my husband's name multiple times, including on the title certificate, even after I had corrected them early on) and also a detail in the wording on our rider that I had to correct several times. They are just not very careful. Obviously this is NOT something you want in your lawyer. To top it off, I later learned from our real estate agent that his fees were actually higher than other real estate lawyers in the area. So avoid this lawyer unless you are prepared to worry and watch over all the details and keep on top of things for them (and pay more for it).