Carolyn Elaine Powers

After reviewing all the items on the billing at great detail, it was obvious the billing was rounded to make things easier. For example, 15 min of billing for a text message that she sent me and I responded to, accruing another 15 min on the bill. Things of that nature racked up a substantial porti...on of a 5k+ bill. All the text messages were downloaded to the attorney’s computer for future reference, so I am led to believe that I was paying for that as well. I also was specific about certain things I wanted in the paperwork. When she was complete, it was wrong, dragging out the agreement even more. The corrections were made with more specifics mentioned; they were still wrong; thus, dragging out the agreement even more. All this I was billed for. I understand the attorney’s time is costly and valuable. I was left feeling like the billing reflected all corrections that needed to be made, the time to discuss how the paperwork was wrong, and then paperwork discussed and resent for review. Eventually, all the things I originally asked for in the agreement was in place as it should be, it just took several times to get it right, all this I was billed for. I felt like Carolyn was not attentive to what I said. I felt early on that time I was being billed for was used extremely inefficiently. In the end she was paid and paperwork was eventually correct, but I regret using this attorney with the cost of what I needed done. My case was quite simple, an agreement was already made, and it just needed to be put into writing. There was too much communicating for what I needed and I felt like I had to talk in circles with Carolyn for there to be an understanding. In the end, my post should be clear enough for someone to reason out that the Carolyn did accomplish her job on my behalf, but I would like to state it for Carolyn’s’ behalf. Things did not end up in court; however, I don’t feel they would have needed to go to court with the case I had. She worked with me as best she could on a different matter while handling the other matter and she did well for that case for me. In the end, I felt the billing was too high for what I needed and it was due to all the explained above.