Stephanie Leigh Steele

WARNING - DO NOT HIRE THIS LAW FIRM This law firm was hired to handle my Son’s Estate. It was a terrible experience because the law firm does not file paperwork on time. My son passed away in February - and the law firm forgot to file for the initial Letter of Testamentary, which delayed the e...ntire case. When I called Steele Law Firm in April, and asked why no movement was happening on the case, they blamed it on the court system. So I called down to the Cobb County Probate System, and they had no record of this lawyer even starting the case. The case was finally started in mid April - which was 2 and a half months after my son died. Failure to file paperwork caused major and costly delays for the estate. And the problems continued to escalate with further delays, no knowledge of my son’s case, and lies from this law firm constantly blaming the probate court system. (The problems are not with the court system - the problems are due to this law firm’s failure to file paperwork and failure to keep the court updated.) Stephanie Steele was fired from the case, and the case was turned over to another law firm - that has handled the case properly, smoothly, and timely ever since. WARNING - DO NOT HIRE THIS LAW FIRM

I hired Stephanie Steele's law firm to help me obtain a letter of Testamentary for my husband's one investment account. He had just passed away. Spoke to a guy name Chad that told me that if I didn't give them a $3500 retainer up front they wouldn't do anything. I gave them the money. Weeks go by ...and they ask for another $3500 replenishment. I asked why? I've never paid $7000, not spoken to anyone, had no explanations, just requests for replenishment with an invoice listing bogus fees. They filed a Year's Support that I didn't need, but charged me for. After 4 months, I finally got to speak with Ms. Steele. I told her that from my first call all I needed was the letter of Testamentary. They finally filled for that and asked for another $3500. We'd be at $10,500 with that request. I told her that she wasn't getting any more money. The next day, her paralegal called and told me to go down to Probate myself and maybe, I'd get the letter. I called Probate, the lady told me to come down and give a sworn oath, which the law firm didn't tell me was necessary. Went down to get the ball rolling. Gave the oath and they got the Letter of Testamentary signed right then. Wasted 5 months and $7000. When I asked for a credit, she's billed me another $1800. They're billing crazy! They need to learn to be assistance, customer service and to communicate without billing every second.

This lawyer represented me in a very complicated a case of modification of visitation and was completely and totally ineffective in presenting any type of defense in this case. The attorney addressed each new witness for the prosecution with "hello my Stephanie Steele I am Len's attorney" as if it wa...s her first case. Needless to say, the results ended with me losing significant time with my children that I will never get back. I chose Ms. Steele on the recommendation from Diane Woods of Huff Woods and Hamby that happened to be employing her. It was my opinion afterwards that Ms Woods recommendation relied on the fact that Ms. Steele was a novice and would benefit from the experience received. I however paid a large fee and received a very poor defense. I'm in the process of bringing charges againist Ms. Steele and the firm for negligance and ethics violations.