Jeanella M. Baldwin

Ms. Baldwin completely threw me under the bus which I didn't realize at the time. As we were down to the wire in my divorce case and the judge waiting on her bench for our trial to begin and negotiations were being done to prevent a trial an agreement was made. When the divorce decree was typed and... I read it there was a line in there about cohabitation. When I asked her about it she waved her hand across it and told me it was standard language in a divorce decree. I fell for it. Also no equitable distribution after a more than 25 year marriage. I don't think she defended me to her fullest ability and almost feel like she was more on my X's side. I'm not sure how to have this situation rectified or if I need to just live with it.

Only lawyer I know who didn't do the "free consultation". Charged $275 and then a $2500 retainer fee on top of that. My divorce was easy peasy. No arguing. No court appearances; yet it took 18 months for her to actually get paperwork done. A co-worker just asked me if I would recommend my divorce at...torney. Big NO!

Ms. Baldwin has a very good sales pitch, but she failed to live up to any expectations. First of all, she was slow to act on multiple requests, sometimes taking MONTHS to do what should have only taken days. She didn't follow up to keep me apprised of situations involving my divorce paperwork. The... only thing that came on time was the bill. She wasted time during the 1 on 1 meetings reviewing things that we already agreed upon, and not remembering other parts of the case she was supposed to know. During the time I worked with her I only saw or spoke to her 5 times. The other dozens of calls were with her paralegal, who did most of the work.