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.