Mara Lynn Shaughnessy

DO NOT USE THIS LAWYER!! Similar to other reviews, once she had the money she did not do her job! I dealt mostly with her paralegal. In order to get what i needed done i had to stay on top of Mara. ALL the paperwork that Mara did for me had several errors. The most notable was that she had my name c...ompletely wrong on legal custody documents. I assume it was a previous clients name!! At one point she even had me listed as the father instead of mother on my custody agreement and also had my daughters initials wrong. There are many more!! Her staff lost my paperwork that had my personal information on it and asked me to resend ( I did not) We had one court call that I was forced to get on even thought we no longer needed it....Mara just didn't show up to the call!!! After my case was closed with no help from Mara I asked to see my account information to ask if I was eligible for a reimbursement since she did almost nothing on the case. She said she was going to send and a month has gone by and she wont return my emails. DO NOT USE HER!!! SHE IS HORRIBLE

After several years of family dispute regarding inheritance/split ownership of my grandparent’s real estate, I hired Mrs. Shaughnessy to help me with my legal advice and partitioning real estate needs. Even though I live out of state, Mara and staff was always responsive and professional when I reac...hed out for status updates. Very pleased with the final judgement and currently in the process of finalizing everything so I can move forward with its sale. Overall, great experience and highly recommend Shaughnessy Law.

We have to start off by saying the court system is not fair when it comes to dead beat parents. Child services took my children from their mother for various warranted reasons (drugs, abuse, neglect), things that we didnt even know they were going through because they we to scared to tell anyone. We... were appointed a court appointed attorney which was horrible and after my first experience with my last lawyer we were very skeptical about hiring a new lawyer. Mara came recommended to us through a friend and I have to say it was the best choice we've made in this regard over the last 11 years. During this whole process of the court and child services giving their mother chance after chance to reunify, making us feel like we did something wrong, and forcing the kids to talk and see their mother when they didnt want to Mara stayed positive. She was there anytime we had a question, needed a meeting, or advice during this 2 year process. We are grateful to say that finally we have full custody, the kids have completed their therapy, and they are happy and doing well in school.