Randy Alan Godshalk

I have only had one experience with a lawyer in my life and it was absolutely HORRIBLE. Randy Godshalk is the most unprofessional, unreliable, careless person I have ever dealt with. Upon receiving a recommendation, I hired Randy for my Child Support/Custody Case. He told me everything could be handl...ed over the phone or via e-mail. Phone calls were never returned, e-mails never answered. I was advised not to show up for Mediation (after double checking that it was ok THREE times) and found out that the entire case could have been settled in that Mediation. I had e-mailed Randy 20 pages of required documents and documentation of other issues I wanted addressed, and Randy called me the MORNING of mediation while I was AT WORK, asking me to send him my most recent check stub which was already sent to him ALONG WITH 20 OTHER PAGES OF DOCUMENTATION. Randy proceeded to FAIL to show up for my first court date, causing me to lose a day off work AND miss another one to attend the rescheduled court date. THEN, Randy failed to show up for a SECOND court date despite my calling every day the week prior to the court date and FINALLY receiving an answer that he would be there- and he DID NOT SHOW! By that time, I had come to an agreement with the other party ON MY OWN. I wrote up the agreement ON MY OWN and e-mailed it to Randy. ALL he had to do was get the other party in his office to sign. A couple weeks later, I called to confirm he got the signature, was told yes he did. And then, the DAY BEFORE COURT, was informed by his secretary that the other party, in fact, never came in and signed. Overall, I have missed four days of work and will have to miss another one in 2020, all because of the negligence of this so-called “attorney”. After calling him and letting him know I no longer needed or wanted his services and I wanted my retainer back, he had the audacity to tell me that he was entitled to compensation for the work he did. He charged me for my “Free Consultation”. He charged me for determining child support amount (never did), and for reading my emails (which there’s no proof of since I NEVER got a response or saw any evidence that he saw the 20 pages of documentation I spent MY TIME putting together), and speaking to me on the phone (hardly EVER returned my phone calls, and when he did, it was days later after me repeatedly calling, and the phone calls consisted of him stating his numerous excuses for screwing me over). Needless to say, I would NEVER recommend anyone uses this attorney. I am an educated, respectable woman and I could have (and DID) do this man’s job 100000% better than he did. I will be reporting him to the bar and shouting it from the rooftops to anyone who will listen that you should NEVER hire this “attorney”.