Ellen Sue Mandell

Worked with three other attorneys on the same case who took the retainer and did nothing else but tell me to try to work it out with the other party..if we could have worked it out..we wouldn't be going to court. I was financially struggling at the time. Ellen came prepared for the trial. She review...ed the file before the court dates and knew her facts. SHE tried to work it out and did not make me handle it. The other party was abusive and threatened me. He tried it with her (ie threw a chair) and she called his bluff. He backed off because he knew she wasn't going to handle someone abusing her or her client. He HATED her...I wonder why. It was fantastic to have someone working with you and listening .. My case was resolved .He quit taking me back and forth to court. His child support was caught up and and the threats that he would take my son away stopped. All because he knew he would have to face Ellen. My son is 24 years old now, but I often think of the situation I was once in..financially struggling terrified that the system would fail me. All it took was an honest hard working attorney..I realize I paid her ( and quite a bit ..she deserved every penny!). But she did her job and that is what this young struggling mom needed. Thanks Ellen

I had a really bad experience working with Ellen. She gave me a horrible legal advice, and put me in a dire legal position. Not only she failed to even give me any legal advice, it literally felt like she’s working for my adversary and opposing counsel. She is very incompetent when it comes to techni...cal aspects, like if you send her digital evidence via email, she asks you over and over again to print it, and send it to her. She also has issues with interpersonal communications, she comes off as rude (there is a difference between being professional and to the point and being rude, she crosses that line to the rude side of behavior). The judge kept threatening me illegally and call my constitutional right of due service as “gamesmanship”. When i wanted to hire a civil rights attorney, she literally threatened to terminate her representation of me at a very critical time of the case being handled. All in all, after working with her, she demonstrated rudeness, incompetence, and failure to provide legal advice as she should have.