Aaron M. Gavenda

I hired Aaron for my divorce because he advertised as a less expensive lawyer. That was the first of many misrepresentation of this guy and his firm. He promised me the world in my case and not only didn’t get that I was raked through the coals by my ex wife and got nothing I wanted from the divorce.... Just the opposite to make matters worse I was told he would be able to get it done for 2500 dollars, 5000 if we had to go to court. We never went to court other than a 10 minute mediation with the judge on zoom. Not only did I pay him 5000 dollars without going to court he asked for 1500 more dollars and told me that would be enough to end this. That was also a flat out lie. I am paying my ex an exorbitant amount of money for the amount of time I have/had them and the amount of things I provide financially. Another example of his incompetence he had me come in to rip text messages as proof for court, which again we did not go to and right after went back to his office and proceeded to tell me I should consider settling right after charging me for 2 hours of his time that he clearly didn’t intend on using. My divorce is finally finalized after a nightmare of trying to get a hold of him and he is now withholding my divorce papers and sending me a collection threatening to sue me for another 2400 dollars. Please do yourself a favor and do not hire this con artist. His own paralegal recommended another lawyer if I needed more legal representation. Don’t be like me and worry about the money because you’ll end up paying more money for him in the end than you would a competent lawyer.

Hired him due to a cheaper retainer. Talked a good game but was very wishy washy, took forever to complete and file papers, left out signficant details in my "settlement", was not prepared or had the knowledge base needed for my case. He even ran out of ink after insisting I came to his office to s...ign something. He would have meetings that took forever and discussed things we already had and was charged for them. His complacency and lack of knowledge in a certain area in particular cost me a lot of money and stress. Very difficult to get ahold of and somewhat rude at times.

This lawyer was hired to represent me, in a legal action. Papers were to be filed. He took three weeks to file them after being paid to do so. Because of his not filing them on time, I was put in the position of having to quickly hire another lawyer, for three times the money, because my situation wa...s now an emergency. He failed to do what he was paid for.