Madelin Diaz

It’s very unfortunate that I have to write this review. I am not the type to write reviews, but when situations like these happen, I feel the urge to have to. Madelin assisted me back in 2018 with my divorce. I was fortunate enough to get everything I wanted. That does not mean it came easy. Madelin ...does not do well with being challenged. She is used to her clients being quiet and just going with everything she says. I feel differently. If I am paying $375-$400 an hour for a service, I feel that I have the right to ask questions and challenge. The second time around. I had to use Madelin for another situation with the initial divorce. Once again we ran into the same issue. When you challenge her, she immediately raises her voice and begin to tell you to be quiet or shut up. I do not feel that is the right way to treat a client. She got upset because I refused to take her advice about taking a deal on a temporary restraining order. I knew I was right and had to win the case and told her several times to not take the deal and continue with the fight. She told me she did not think we would win. Not once is she positive. Well, we ended up winning. Now don’t get me wrong. Madelin is very outgoing and an AMAZING person when she is not being challenged. So if you want to sit back and not worry and ask questions and be informed, then she’s your person. But if you are like me and like to be Involved and ask questions, then she is not the one for you. Lastly, during court, I did not feel she was 100% prepared. She had a lot of studdering and would get lost. This is my sincere experience with her. Her office staff is amazing. And again, don’t challenge or ask questions and Madelin is Excellent. I then told her I will not be having her as my attorney anymore. And she charged me 1.5 hours of work to submit a document of withdrawal. In other words, about $560 to fire her. Incredible.

In my opinion, Madelin Diaz is incompetent and unethical. I hired her to handle my divorce. It was obvious that even though she billed me for reviewing my file and preparing for mediation, she actually did next to nothing to prepare. She had no plan going into the mediation, and basically was will...ing to take whatever the other side offered. Then when she prepared my settlement agreement, she inserted inconsistent and contradictory provisions, demonstrating that she is lazy, incompetent or both. Because of her screw-up in the agreement, I had to incur the cost of litigating those issues again (of course by then I hired a different lawyer). Madelin Diaz also does not seem to understand her ethical obligation to maintain her client's information in confidence, because she disclosed privileged information. Her legal advice was, in my opinion, worthless.

She is very unprofessional and screams at the opposing side when we were losing. She promises things will go my way but in the end I have gotten nothing. Motion after motion, bill after bill, she has gotten me no child support, no alimony and shared custody only. She continues to bill me and cre...ates a work load but nothing ever comes from it.