Julie F. Weinberger

I hired Mrs. Weinberger when her AVVO rating was higher. She's been a divorce lawyer for many years and I suspect she may have been a good lawyer at one time, but I cannot recommend her based on my experience. In fact, I ultimately had to fire her and hire a new attorney after repeated problems. F...or example, it's 2013 but from my experience and what she's told me, she never touches a computer and cannot modify a legal document without reading it and dictating changes to her staff, which slows her efficiency. E-mails sent are all printed and kept in paper files forcing her to shuffle through countless pages if she reads them at all. I feel this increases costs to the client and introduces more chance for error. The fact she did not even have a website should have been my first clue. Worse, she billed her staff's time at the same rate as her own time which most attorney's do not do from my experience. Mrs. Weinberger rarely responded to my emails which was frustrating. Her staff would occasionally reply but most often my questions were met with silence or "we will let Julie know." I would then rarely hear anything back. I found my case and questions were ignored for weeks unless I scheduled well in advance a weekly meeting or conference call with her to repeatedly list out action points she should be doing. When I complained about her lack of responsiveness, I would not receive an apology, nor did her or her staff seem to care. There was this "take it or leave it" mentality in my opinion. The final straw though was I would discuss a matter in detail with Ms. Weinberger and just days later she would act like we never had the conversation or had not discussed the matter before. At first I thought she was just very busy. However, this happened over and over. Her memory and communication issues were such that I became convinced it was undermining her ability to be effective in my case. It was one of the most frustrating experiences I've had with an attorney.