Anita Fulwiler O'Meara

In December of 2025 I reached out to Anita O’Meara, an estate attorney, to have our wills updated to reflect the laws of our new home in Pennsylvania. We met at the end of December to discuss our estate and what we wanted with regards to our Wills and POAs at the advice and urging of our daughter ...who is also an attorney but not barred in PA. We provided our prior Wills, medical directives, and general power of attorneys which we expected to be updated to reflect PA statutes, etc..... vs. MD At our 12/29/25 consultation we paid a $2K deposit for production of our revised Wills and POAs. About two weeks into January 2026, I sent an email stating that we were not going to move forward with a Trust, which was $50 of the deposit previously paid, but we still wanted our Wills and POAs. We did not hear back from Atty. O’Meara and sent follow up correspondence about two weeks later. After neither Atty. O’Meara nor her PL/assistant responded, we began to send emails to Atty. O’ Meara (and copied her PL/assistant). After several emails and leaving voicemails, we involved our daughter who is also a lawyer. Our daughter sent an email on February 10, 2026, and got no response so she sent a second email on February 19,2026. In her second email, our daughter advised Atty. O’Meara that if we did not receive a timely response, she would begin a disciplinary complaint to recover our funds, or at the very least the services for which we had rendered payment in December 2025. To our daughter’s correspondence, Atty. O’Meara finally responded on or about February 20, 2026. She attempted to provide an explanation as to her serious delay in responding to our prior attempts to follow up by email or telephone stating a family emergency had been the cause of her delay and unresponsive. At no point prior to our proactive attempts to confirm the status of our updated Wills and POAs/ADs did Atty. O’Meara OR her office staff reach out to us or respond to us to let us know that there might be a delay and the cause of such delay. It was pure radio silence. It was not until our daughter, a non-PA barred attorney, began to reach out on our behalf AND threatened disciplinary review/action that Atty. O’Meara answered her (my daughter’s) correspondence. It took three more emails, and over a month timewise, before I finally received the proposed Wills and POA documents three weeks later. We returned our revisions and remarks on the updated Wills and POAs within 24 hours. We (my spouse and I) met with Atty. O’Meara on March 23, 2026, to review and notarize all our documents. As soon as we began to review the documentation presented to us at this meeting, we noticed an error on the first page of at least one document. When I noticed the error (which seemed substantive to me) she indicated she had permitted her son to draft one half of our documents. She did not appear to have reviewed her non-attorney son’s work product prior to presenting it to clients, let alone clients who were already unsatisfied with her turn-around and response time. This further led us to believe that she did not value our business in the same manner that we valued our hiring of her. Due to her failure to proofread the drafts she delegated to her non-attorney son, we had to return on 30 March 2026. We again had to meet with two of the witnesses to one of our POAs as they had failed to do so in March. It was unprofessional for Atty. O’Meara to go radio silent for almost two months, requiring the intervention of our daughter. At the behest of our attorney daughter, we respected and attempted to understand that there may have been cause for delay in the production of our end-of-life documents. This patience was rewarded with excuses. If you require prompt responses and documentation production, we would not recommend.

We have been trying to reach Anita since December -nearly 3 months with no contact -but you can see she is still posting on LinkedIn. We have paid her in full to handle the creation of our trust, but she does not answer any emails or calls. Happy to change this review, but will be filing a complaint ...with the Disciplinary Board and also filing all necessary paperwork to try and get back our payment.

I do not recommend. After a referral to Anita I emailed with her about updating a will and associated documents. We outlined desired services, exchanged a service contract and I paid the requested fee. Then the email communication became scarce until it stopped altogether. Despite repeated calls ...and emails to complete the contracted service, I never received the service, nor did I get a reply to my efforts or a return of my fee paid. Stopping by the posted office address did not help, as the office did not exist at the stated office address. Beware, I do not know if this is simply a poorly performing attorney or a ruse, but only hire this person if you want your $ to disappear, as mine did.

I reached out to Ms. O’Meara’s office and it took awhile to hear back from the start. Once I was in contact, I went back and forth in some emails with her assistant, then when those stopped I started reaching out to Ms. O’Meara directly. We spoke & scheduled a time to speak on the phone. She was to c...all me at a certain time & if she didn’t then I would call her within 15 minutes following that time. For 1 hour I stayed by the phone and attempted 3 calls with no answer. Then I sent an email as a follow up and was met with “sorry you had to reschedule.” Even though I was available during the scheduled time & calling as planned. Then I sent follow up emails after that with even with more info and tried to reschedule the appointment. I never received communication back to reschedule our appointment. So, after a month total of hit or miss communication, emails that would go unanswered for weeks and no call backs we decided to stop the process we were in and no longer move forward with obtaining legal counsel from this law firm. For me the most important part of hiring a lawyer is having someone who will communicate with me directly, professionally, and timely. So, 10/10 would not recommend.

I needed an attorney quick to solve a business problem. I did my research and consulted Ms. O'Meara. I hired her to handled an urgent matter that required someone with experience, that would not back down and fight for me. I found Ms. O'Meara to be very diligent in pursuing my case. She was very k...nowledgeable, her fees were reasonable, and she was very honest in her representation. I was very happy with the outcome and she achieved exactly what my company wanted and within my budget.. I recommend her to anyone that needs a lawyer!