Julia A. Perkins

Julia was referred to me during my divorce when the attorney I had been previously using did not have the skills needed to go against my ex's bulldog lawyer. She was not only extremely skilled, but she was kind and compassionate. She gently told me when I was being unreasonable and prepared me for ...what was to come during mediation. She "got me" and I feel like I not only had a skilled attorney, but a trusted friend on my side. She is extremely practical, down to earth, and knowledgeable. I would recommend her 1000%!

Not happy at all. On 02/07/24 Met with Julia Perkins for a "consultation". We were asked to send in current custody/post divorce summary paperwork for review prior to this consultation. The consultation was not free, they charge a WHOPPING $510 per hour! We met with Julie for 90 minutes, and then ...she proceeded to say she needed to be paid for the ~30 minutes that their office took to review our paperwork. This was never disclosed and awkwardly put us on the spot. The consultation did not lead to us hiring her as she said the GAL on our case she was actually at ODDS with, and just tried to *unsuccessfully* remove her from a different case she had. It was a pure waste of $1,000+ and a real strong arm tactic to have us pay 2 hours instead of 1.5 hours. As if that wasn't bad enough, her parent company VARNUM, ran two charges on our credit card. One for the $1,020 that we reluctantly agreed to, AND they popped us with a 2nd charge of 3% credit card processing fee, that we never agreed to nor we were ever made aware of. We received their receipts on 03/15/24 and contacted her office on 03/22/24 and asked for this erroneous charge to be removed. On 03/23/24 we received a direct response from Julia with her assistant cc'd stating that they would send us a check back as a refund. As of 04/12/24 we had not received the promised refund and sent an email back to Julia as well as a cc to her assistant. Both chose to not respond. As of 05/09/24, we have now had to take the time to proceed with a credit card dispute, because they can't be bothered to refund they extra charge they did. In general, the meeting was par at best. It seemed like Julia wanted to make arguments on behalf of the Ex, and we didn't clique well with her. With other competent attorneys that we've dealt with that at the high end are ranged from $275-400 per hour, I have no idea how she or Varnum keeps clients. There was no sort of wow factor that showed us we'd be getting any bang for our buck. Sadly, I would not recommend.