Rebecca Wyatt McLaws

Rebecca McLaws

The work performed on Sonya's behalf was excellent. Sonya originally came to the firm as a referral. She had very limited funds and asked that our firm keep her bill as low as possible. When we communciate or do work on a client's file, the client is charged. This was made known to Sonya at the outset of our representation of her. We kept our word to Sonya and kept her bill very low. We did notify her when her case was filed. We also communciated by email and telephone. We updated Sonya that we were working on scheduling mediation. We updated Sonya on the mediation date. We prepared for mediation. We have detailed billing records of all the times we worked on her file, communciated with her, and updated her on the status of her case. We prepared for trial after the case did not settle. We had trial exhibits ready and, after trial, Sonya, in front of her children, expressed how pleased she was with how we represented her. Unfortuantely, the Court prepared its own Order. The Court failed to include the name change despite our request for the change. Sonya talked to a clerk that is not a lawyer and got wrong information. Rebecca explained to Sonya that she did not have to seek a name change because of the mistake by the Court, as the law allowed the Court to enter an Amended Order to change her name. At no cost to Sonya, our office prepared an amended Order that was hand delivered to the Court. When the Order was not entered, Rebecca went to the Judge's office on two different occassions and asked about the Order. On the second occassion, Rebecca spoke directly with the Judge's staff attorney and presented another copy of the Order. Rebecca did not cause the issue with the name change but worked without payment from Sonya to resolve the issue. In fact, Rebecca never asked Sonya to pay money to fix the problem that was caused the Court when it drafted the Final Order even though she was within her right to do so pursuant to the Attorney Retainer Agreement. Sonya was made aware of Rebecca's efforts to try to get the Amended Order entered because Rebecca communicated that to her. For Sonya to now write a misleading and incorrect review is unfortuante. This is particularly true given Rebecca's effort to try to resolve the problem for Sonya without any payment from her. In this case, the old adage is true, "good deeds never go unpunished."