Charlene Robin Vance

i hired robin vance based on public reviews. clearly i should not have trusted the reviews or her comments about how she would handle the case. she led me to believe she was much more qualified than the opposing counsel and she hated how dishonest the opposing counsel was (which he definitely is). sh...e may very well be qualified to do a good job, but she intentionally did not. first of all, she didn't share her cell phone with me. after she collected her retainer i could not get a hold of her for several weeks with the trial right around the corner. finally i threatened to fire her and she called back. i should have gotten a clue then. during the trial she completely misrepresented me. kept assuring me that she would cover the items of interest later in the trial (yes i had a lengthy, drawn out and painful trial designed to maximize the lawyers' fees). well, she NEVER did bring up the items that i had asked her to bring up. She even had the audacity to say that she DID bring up these items - I have a transcript of the trial in my hands to prove that she did not. My requests to clarify why she didn't do what she said she would do went nowhere - she'll email and charge you for every keystroke on her keyboard, but heaven forbid she address any of your concerns. in fact, she agreed to no alimony without even discussing this with me. she went out of her way to bend over backwards to the other attorney, clearly to improve her relationship with the person who has abused me in every possible way. Additionally ms vance is a lazy person you DON'T want on your side. she absolutely would not prepare me for any hearing, claiming that in fifteen years she never had to do this. What??? every lawyer prepares their clients for hearings. other than stupid advice, such as "be on time", "don't smoke during the deposition" she barely had anything to offer. the level of corruption among lawyers is indeed amazing and vance is the champion in that regard. she further told me that she would not overcharge me and would be very generous with her time. Nothing could be further from the truth - as the time went on she charged more and more: every phone call, even for a tiny two minutes would be charged at one third of a hour. receiving fax, sending email another one third of an hour. i literally had to prepare her for every hearing and she'd charge me for it. whoever is intending to hire this person - do yourself a favor and seek a different lawyer. if you're going through tough times and you have to hire a lawyer (the fact that the courts won't even listen to you without a lawyer proves again how corrupted this state is) you don't need additional pain. and if you hire this lawyer, trust me, she will ensure that you hurt even more than before you called her. i am filing a complaint against this lawyer with the board of professional responsibility. i know that the board will do absolutely nothing about it, because the board is just as corrupted - I have contacted them and asked to chastise another lawyer that lied (with the proof of lying), but the board simply sent me a list of other lawyers to hire. however, as a fellow citizen i have to inform others out there how ridiculously dishonest, despicable and useless this attorney is.