Aaron B Wentz

Before you even start looking for an attorney I would read this page from the American Bar Association What if I am Unhappy with my Lawyer? It explains some ethical duties of attorneys. I retained Mr. Wentz to sue an ex landlord who wrongfully withheld part of my damage deposit. At first he see...med as if he was a good communicator but that ended after he got my deposit. Check his agreement carefully, mine stated that the deposit is assumed to be fully earned when received, so apparently if you give him a large deposit and you settle the next day you are out your entire deposit. You can check that with him. Additionally, the agreement has a clause where he can hire various experts. I guess that I would expect to be consulted before doing so but in my case he had to hire another attorney to say that his charges were reasonable. He likes to remind you often that he has thirty years of experience, one would think that is enough experience to convince a judge that his fees were reasonable without having to hire an “expert”. He told me that my case should be between $2500 and $3000, but could be more. It ended up being around $9000 see my review on BBB.com for the numbers presented to the judge which is a story in and of itself. During the second attempt (see the full story on fee hearings on yelp.com) to hold an attorneys fee hearing. He had to tell the judge while we were before him, and the defendants attorney failed to show up that he hadn't filed the correct paperwork so this was a failed attempt. After we left the court room I told him I was not pleased that these hearings kept getting pushed back as the additional coordination with the court and the defendant's attorney just added to my cost. He then shook his finger in my face and told me that anytime he could accommodate a fellow attorneys schedule he would do that. Not the answer I was expecting to get from someone I was paying $300/hr to represent me AND do so at the lowest possible cost. Now it appears he feels he is worth $350/hr, not in my book. You can decide for yourself. See my other reviews on BBB.com, yelp.com and google.com (you have to use google maps find the office and click on it).

Horrible firm for child custody and establishing timesharing. Had worst case results on two different cases hiring them. Been 2 years since they represented me and still having to go back to court for them being careless. If you really want someone who will fight for you choose someone else. This w...as the first firm I’ve ever had to hire for anything so it wasn’t until after hiring new counsel I realized how much time/money was wasted…in addition to general carelessness you can expect some other things… -this firm makes you take time to go into office to sign for all documents - New firm uses digital signatures/docusign -the paralegal they have is disrespectful when she talks to you- New firm is much more personable -unnecessary charges for alleged phone calls, emails, etc They racked up easily $10k in charges RESPONSE TO FIRM: I did reach out to this firm multiple times to discuss and they do not respond. This guy is a joke Save your money and look elsewhere.

I will never recover from the downward spiral Mr. Wentz allowed as the unelected and unqualified Wanda Morgan, Magistrate saddled me, a Disabled person…with $700,000.00 of marital debt while the active wage earner of the 10 year marriage/relationship had $0 liability. Mr. Wentz sat idly by while the ...unelected Magistrate Morgan and her friend Tonya Petterman laughed and threatened to impute my income…I learned after the divorce and after my homelessness that income couldn’t be imputed since I had been disabled for 20 years.