Mary Jo Broussard Speier

My mother and I, retained Mary Jo Broussard Speier to help us establish a relatively complicated trust fund. The service and counsel we received from Ms. Speier was exceptional. She looked into all aspects of our situation, and requirements, and determined the best course of action. In doing this ...she identified potential problems and went about taking steps to address them proactively. The work we had done was relatively complicated (at least I thought so) and could have been both confusing, and stressful, to my mother and myself. To her credit, Ms. Speiers made sure she explained the process in advance, as well as provided us with detailed updates along the way. Further, whenever we had a question, she came back with the answer in less that 24 hours, in most instances within just one or two hours. When the trust was completed she took the time to sit down with us and explain it in detail before it was signed. Then, a week or so later when I had few follow-up questions, she addressed them right away. In sum we were very pleased with Ms. Speier's professionalism and responsiveness throughout the project. We would certainly recommend her to friends and family.

Mary Jo is outstanding. Compassionate, clear, thorough, quick in her work. She was highly recommended as a family law specialist when my husband and I (who had woefully neglected all the legal paperwork) needed wills, powers of attorney, a trust and more. I, in turn have recommended her to my dearest... friend who was equally pleased with the quality of Mary Jo's work and the pleasure of working with her.

Mary Jo is an essential partner for me. She helps and advises on eldercare for my mother, who has dementia/Alzheimer's. Mary Jo is responsive, intuitive, and strategic, and has broad and deep legal skills and understanding of eldercare issues, which can be overwhelming and terrifying for families de...aling with ongoing disability from dementia. Her personal, thoughtful approach makes you feel like you're her only client. I'm very lucky to have her help.

We contacted Ms. Speier when another attorney, who had written a trust for us did not return our calls. The trust she created did not protect our assets in the way she had said it would. Ms. Speir help my family to understand that trust, and why it did not meet our needs. She very competently figured... out what we had to do to extricate ourselves from the problems that document created, and set a new plan for us into motion. She helped us to organize our finances and wrote a new trust.