Laurin R. Haddad

I regret hiring her and eventually hired another attorney. Initially, she portrayed herself well and I paid the retainer requested. After a few court appearances, I knew I needed to find another attorney. She was late to court every time, even no showed once! Unprepared and unorganized at court, the...n tried to blame me for her shortcomings saying I didn't provide her with documents, despite me dropping off copies of everything requested. She missed filing deadlines, got snotty with the judge and when she double billed me TWICE, that was the last straw. Judge allowed an adjournment for me to hire a new attorney as she recognized my attorney was dropping the ball. If you have her as your attorney, you will regret it. A guy in the hallway of the courtroom said she was appointed to represent him and (according to him) she refused to spend any significant time meeting with him to prepare his case saying it wasn't necessary and they could speak at court before they went into see the judge. Not the type of attorney you want handling anything important!

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 see...med 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 hired Laurin to represent me in a child support case. In the beginning I felt confident that things would play out in my favor, but that slowly diminished over time. While I know that no one ever is exempt from paying child support, I felt that there was more that could have been done in my case. I... did not feel she was listening to me during our initial appointment while going over all my concerns. On each court date, she was often running in at the last minute. I felt she should have been there early enough to go over what was taking place on that day. One court appointment she was very late. My scheduled court time had come and gone and she still wasn't there. I called her office and was told by the secretary that Laurin was headed to a different client but would be on the way. I was told by the judge that I could reschedule for another date or represent myself. I asked for a few more minutes so I could call Laurin's office. At that time, no one answered the phone even though only minutes later I spoke with her secretary. Finally, she showed up and said she was double booked. Basically, I paid a substantial amount of money to Laurin, only to be told by the judge, that I was going to be paying money. There was lack of interest in what I was telling Laurin regarding my situation and my complaint. I felt we went into the court house, flying by the seat of our pants. The information that she took from me as I was explaining to her was wrong. When we went into court Laurin started to fight for me, only to retract and say "we can probably settle this." I do not feel that anything that happened during all the different court dates were ever in my favor or best interest.