Mandi Deyerle McDonough

Now the statement “highly annoyed” would be an understatement. I contacted Mandi back in 2018 for help. We had a consultation, I paid my 100.00. Afterward, I was not able to get in contact with her. I sent multiple emails, left multiple voicemails and I was never contacted back. I gave up and hired s...omeone else ultimately. Now this year rolls around, and I reach out to her, again. I spoke to her directly and even told her about the issues with communication from 2018. She said okay, apologized and gave me a discount on my consultation fee for this new matter. Her assistant scheduled my consult for 06/17/2022 at 9:00 AM. She advised me I would receive email correspondence to confirm this and etc. Here I am on 06/17/22 at 10:51 AM eastern time, and I have not been contacted. Furthermore I never received any type of email confirmation. At this point, it’s just disheartening and disrespectful. I am a soon to be law student and I don’t picture myself being a bad communicator like the above mentioned. If your case load is too heavy, don’t agree to meet with individuals.

Scheduled a consultation for an uncontested divorce. Tried to set up a meeting 3 days later to hire her and couldn't get a call back. I called 7 times, sent several emails and never got a response. Finally I sent an email advising I would be looking elsewhere she replied and said I had unreal expec...tations and she is glad I didn't hire her. Glad I didn't waste my time. Have heard so many horror stories since then.

Mandi presented herself as a caring, concerned person who didn't want more clients but felt compelled to help!! She said she would "discount" her fees because she was so committed to this case! (We later found her fees to be the same as others charge) We paid the retainer and didn't hear from her ag...ain for weeks! Her assistant assured us she was working on it....."She is in court right now, she has your file at home and it is her HIGHEST priority..etc...etc......" For 6 weeks we called, left messages, texts. ANYTHING to get her to respond!! Finally she returned an urgent request and berated us for interrupting her vacation! When we questioned her lack of communication she threatened to withdraw from the case. When she was easily outmaneuvered by the opposing attorney she responded with a late night call laced with vulgar rantings but no real explanation for how it happened or what her plan would be going forward. When it became apparent she had no real intentions of working this case, we tried once more to appeal to her through an email detailing our concerns and basically begging her to help. Within 5 minutes she called (After months of little or no response) and began screaming that we were NOT her priority! She had a lot of other cases and she was sick of hearing from us. She immediately withdrew from the case and has yet to return our files or an explanation of charges to our retainer as requested. For nearly 4 months of her having this case she filed the initial paperwork and returned 3 phone calls which lasted approximately 10 minutes each. We almost lost custody!! And would have had it not been for an awesome attorney who took this case and managed to accomplish in 3 weeks what Mandi couldn't or wouldn't in months!! There are some honest, hardworking attorneys out there! Mandi McDonough is not one of them!! You're almost better having no attorney than one who doesn't file timely, doesn't respond to opposing attorney and misses court procedures. We have now heard from many others who have also been very disappointed and will be following through on further action with the Georgia Bar Association.