Patricia M. Crippen

Unprepared, expensive, rude, lazy and made me do most of the research. I hired her for family court and just one example of all of the above is that we had a whitness come to the atand and once he got there, she had to ask me who he was and why he was there. She couldnt find her notes and had no fo...rmal questions prepared to ask. legalzoom would have suited me or anyone else better than her.

I too had a distressing experience with Patricia Crippen's law firm in handling the probate of a will. There was duplication of efforts which added to the fee charged. I also agree that her staff were either inexperienced or incompetent. Not enough copies of documents ordered, then waiting time t...ill more were received. Money that was requested when funds were left in escrow to cover final expenses. Then was told it was good that I remembered that and the staff would check. Isn't it their job to know that information, not me to have to provide?? Not very diligent nor professional. It was a very distressing time for me, and I didn't need this.

I hired Patricia to handle my divorce & it was a terrible experience from beginning to end. She charged alot of money for me doing most of the work. I had to correct the agreement several times for errors on the offices part such as mixing up what i was asking for vs what husband wanted and typos gal...ore! She never bothered to tell me what the next step in the process would be but never ceased to not send me a bill for her money when that came due. It was truely dissappointing. After i received my closing letter saying "good luck in the future" basically stating the fact she would need another retaining fee to go onto the next step for the domestic relations portion. that was never conveyed in the initial meeting we had to discuss the divorce. I hired a real lawyer to take care of that for me and he was perfect. I wish i had Mr. Bill Farr from the beginning. Because her office changes staff on a constant basis all of my paperwork and accounts were constantly wrong. i have gotten 2 separate bills for over 1,700 each time stating i didn't pay her office and had to prove each time that i did, and in turn she sent an apology email. This has happened twice within the last 2 years now and i had paid my final bill over 2 years ago so that is scary. I would never recommend this unprofessional lawyer and her staff to anyone. Extremely dissatisfied for all the thousands of dollars this woman charged. Its terrible service.