Karen Allison Howe

My experience with Karen Howe similar to the other one star reviews. She is flat out, dishonest and incompetent. There is no way this individual should be practicing law any sort of way. She is not smart in any shape or form and is extremely unprofessional. Additionally, her fees were a joke. I went... through her billings and they didn’t even make sense. She built like $5000 for meeting that I’ve never attended. Run from this lawyer.

This lady (I refuse to call her a lawyer) should be immediately disbarred. Where do I start. 1) dishonest to a point of criminal behavior. I can’t prove that I was over billed on her legal documents but I can prove I was overbilled on phone calls. She’s so dumb that I counted the number of calls on m...y cell phone bill and there was less than 10 calls that she billed me for. IMPOSSIBLE!!! 2) Her legal documents were embarrassingly bad and appeared to be templates. I really think she goes on the Internet and takes legal documents off them and sells them as their own. She used the name “John Doe” Instead of my name in one of the documents in two places. 3) She was totally over matched in court. First off she was so underprepared it was embarrassing. She literally knew nothing about my case going into court and had to constantly look down at her notes. We lost every aspect of the case. I had to pay my legal fees, 100% of my ex-wife’s legal fees and had to pay even more than what they were asking for in child support. —- I am not one to complain but this was so ridiculous I had to make a formal complaint to the bar association. WHAT A JOKE!! Karen had answers for everything but never mentioned the phone call situation. The Bar Association didn’t even address the phone call situation. In their eyes it’s like it never happened. Unbelievable!!! Where do we turn to for help? It is like getting shot and robbed and having no police force to call. I literally caught her stealing!!! This lady cannot go on as a lawyer. She does irreparable harm. Do yourself a favor and make sure you get another lawyer. It is funny she has three 5 star reviews and the rest 1 star. Hmmmm.... I’ll make a bet those 5 star reviews are fake and are close friends.

Run while you can! Karen insisted on weekly $300 phone calls in which she ignored everything I told her and put words into my mouth. Later she negotiated with the opposing counsel on my behalf things that were benefiting my ex instead of me. She was not acting in my best interest at all! the only pr...oductive thing she did in my case was subpoena my ex’s 401k and even then she filed the paperwork with wrong name on it. She filed a motion without my consent after I repeatedly asked not to file anything on my behalf without prior discussing with me. Karen will charge you outrageous fees for everything including things you never asked her to do. She literally burned $3,000 on pointless phone calls and emails which she insisted on. I fired her after realizing that she will cause more harm than good to my case.

Ms. Karen Howe Esquire receives my highest recommendation for legal advice and counsel for Family Legal representation. I base this recommendation on her combined critical and strategic thinking skills as both a legal counselor and courtroom litigator. She fully commands subject matter expertise in F...lorida Family Law and legal statutes in addition to demonstrates courtroom legal arguments and litigations in a professional manner. Her pragmatic ability to align sound legal advice with professional courtroom demeanor results in fruition of representing the best interests of her client. She and her paralegal, Ms Lea, are a real team of legal professionals the deserve my appreciation for ensuring that I received as much justice and due process afforded under Florida Family Statutes. The key to ensuring your best success with Ms Howe and Ms Lea on your legal team is to provide them the facts and truth enabling them to develop a cogent legal strategy on your behalf. With this accomplished, rest assured this legal team will show up to court with a legal strategy and debate preparation fully dedicated to your best interests which is to provide the ruling judge the clearest situational awareness pursuant to Florida legal statutes enabling a favorable court ruling.