Laurin R. Haddad

DO NOT USE LAURIN HADDAD. According to my now ex husband I am officially divorced. Something that should have happened three months ago according to his lawyer, as this was her negligence. There have been several instances in which she has failed me. To begin with, she did not know my name, my husbands name, my case, or what I wanted. I had to advocate for myself and tell her each time we spoke the run down of what the plan was and what I wanted. Her office staff violated confidentiality sending me another persons Statement of Net Worth.

While trying to get my children back home and out of the foster care system, my husband had been assigned Lauren Heddad and thought that because she owns her own law firm would be a good choice for him but he found out very quickly that she never returns phone calls, never returns emails and does not associate with other attorneys for further information and considers it as "jumping through hoops" in which case told my husband that she does not do. She refuses to work with anyone else that pertains to a case that has more information then her and was just very rude to my husband when he tried to explain some situations and was rushing him as if he wasn't speaking fast enough for her and had better things to do then discuss his case. Lauren Heddad is very unprofessional, very rude, and very cold hearted. I would not recommend her to anyone who is trying to win a case because she has a very poor effort to keep in contact especially when there is important documents to be delt with involving small children. Very displeased and very disappointed with her attitude towards people and does not need to be in the lawyer business if she can't learn to communicate with her clients better.

I hired Laurin as a divorce attorney and when I first talked with her on the phone she seems like a perceptive person ..she listen and offered suggestion to get my attention to hire her as my attorney ..I didn’t meet Laurine in person until our first court date in which she was running late ..she seemed nice enough though ..after that first court date I hardly talked to her one on one everything went through her paralegal..which by the way was amazing !!!Laurin didn’t listen to me as her client and almost never knew what was going on with my case..why would she when her hard working paralegal handled everything ..as my case went on Laurine decided to run for Congress or something of the sort as well as starting a real state business on top of her own personal family related issues .I feel Laurin would make a great lawyer if she took on less jobs and focused on one particular thing ..Laurin seemed worried about one thing, that was racking up my bill and making sure she got payment ..I feel the redundant orders she did along with other items she perused saying it was relevant to the divorce when it truly wasn’t could have saved a ton of money for me had she done it once instead of many times .. Any time you questioned anything with Laurin she got upset and always had a rude response even when it was there in black and white showing she double charged for things ..she has poor people skills and needs lessons on how to talk with her clients ..I feel she forgets “We”the client hire her to do a job ,not to be screamed at or felt made a fool for pointing out a billing error ect ..she should also try to be more attentive and at least know a little about the case before heading into court..she relies to heavily on her assistant ..

I retained Laurin to assist with a custody matter. After relevant information was provided, Attorney Haddad went radio silent. At each stage, attempts to follow up on the status of the case were ignored until my third or fourth request for an update. When a drafted document was finally sent to me for review, it was a poor representation of the facts provided to her, in some cases stating outright false information as truth. It was full of poor grammar and included incorrect math calculations, In one section, she even gave my therapist AND herself equal credit for my emotional and mental well being. Communication is the crux of the attorney client relationship, and it is the skill this attorney is most lacking.

Laurin seemed to be working for the other side and not for me. She didn't listen to my concerns, didn't respond to my calls or emails, came to court dates late and unprepared, and then charged me an arm and a leg. She also emotionally blackmailed me and was extremely rude and impolite.

Laurin was hired to defend my Spouse in a Criminal case, she would not return any of our calls during the case. She seemed to be working with the District Attorney and not for us. Laurin would show up to court at the last minute, and could not remember any of the important elements of his case when presenting to the judge. She shouted at my husband and judged him for his past and not his present and even walked out on him after court in the middle of a conversation. She would not go over any thing from the case with neither one of us and told me she didn't have to talk to me. When ever I called her office her Secretary would say she is not in and will return your call when she comes in, Laurin would never call. When we asked her to file motions in court she would ignore the both of us. I then re-hired another attorney, all motions were filed and my husband was released and found not guilty of all charges. If we didn't changes lawyers my spouse would remain in a prison today found guilty for something he did not do. I am sure Laurin is good in other areas but not recommended for Criminal defense.