In my opinion, I have personally never seen such continued incompetence in dealing with a professional in my life. We retained Ms. Moore the first week of December to close out an uncontested divorce that was literally two weeks from finalizing before the judge. In initial consult, Ms. Moore promis...ed to seek damages which the previous attorney had chosen to not pursue. All the things we had desired, but weren’t getting from the mediation agreement that Ms. Moore promised confidently she would seek! (Until I paid the retainer.) We then went weeks with little, to no communication, all the promises offered now turning to excuses. Sheer incompetence by her and her paralegal came out in many conversations, with correspondence from us regularly, and conveniently misplaced and forgotten. Ms. Moore was continually condescending, belittling and deeply abrasive with no provocation.
This case, which was in the last two weeks of completion before, is now six months in, post retaining Ms. Moore. In this entire time, only one motion was ever filed to the court, which Ms. Moore filed improperly mind you. When finally in front of the judge on this “Motion Monday,” with all parties present, Ms. Moore not only failed to bring the proper paperwork before him, she utterly choked in attempting to state our side of the case. Her utter lack of any preparation before this hearing not only had the opposing counsel grinning from ear to ear, but had the Judge dismissing her out of the courtroom without addressing the Motion before him. This “bulldog” of a litigator, as so would be described, was put down to that of a whimpering puppy before the Judge.
If that is not bad enough, 24 hours after completely self destructing before the court, she had the nerve to tell us our $3200 retainer was not only used up, but that her client was now owing an additional $2500+, PLUS an additional $3000 retainer to carry on!!!?
Needless to say, Mary Sullivan Moore has since been fired, and replaced with new counsel without hesitation.
I would NOT recommend this attorney to anyone, at any time, for any service.