Veronique Liem

If you want a brilliant lawyer who also cares about you as a person then you’d do well to hire Veronique Liem. It was the very best move I made in getting through my divorce. She has no need to be bully or intimidating in representing you as some lawyers do. Her very powerful secret weapon is her ...intelligence and her style is calm and collected. Her knowledge of the law and how to present your case is impressive. I can’t say enough good things about her as a lawyer and honestly, plain and simple she’s a really nice, caring human being. Who wouldn’t want that type of person representing them? Divorce is likely going to be one of the most challenging things you go through in your life. Do yourself a huge favor, hire her.

Everything below is strictly my opinion - Negatives: 1. Exceptionally high hourly rate. In my opinion, her rate is far too high for someone who is not focusing all of her efforts on marital law. 2. Extremely expensive in how her hours just add up and add up and addup. 3. Her heavy French accen...t made it difficult for me to understand her, even in our conversations across the conference table. I believe the Judge had a much more difficult time clearly understanding her in the large courtroom. 4. Regarding her oral arguments before the judge, she appeared to be disorganized and somewhat flustered. She did not appear to be in control, going through items point by point, and her lack of voice clarity, her lack of voice projection, and her accident all seemed to make it difficult for the Judge to follow her. 5. My saving grace was that my ex-spouse's attorney appeared less well prepared. Additionally, I believe that attorney was already facing an uphill battle, which means that odds were stacked against her even before the hearing of our motion. 6. On a recurring basis, and after I had spent significant money on her to bring her up to speed on my case, she only then made it exceedingly clear that she was in charge, that I was lucky to have her as an attorney, and that she would drop me as a client whenever she felt like it. Remember, though, that this was only after I had paid her significant money to prepare her to file a motion, analyzing hundreds of pages of documents and engaging in countless numbers of phone calls. To me, she seemed to almost be saying, "I've made all sorts of money on you as it is, and you're highly unlikely to want to re-spend that money on another attorney, so now I going to treat you as if I'm the client." I felt as if I could not depend on her day-to-day to continue on the case. Positives: 1. I believe she has her MBA, and she did demonstrate some business understanding, but I'll leave it at that. Summary: I'd never even consider hiring her again. It was an unpleasant experience, and I only believe things worked out because the other attorney was working against the facts. The deck was stacked against her.