Lisa C. Stengel

Lisa Stengel was the best decision we could have made when choosing a local attorney to help us navigate through a very complicated and emotional family court situation. She was very helpful throughout the entire process, listening, asking us questions, and advocating for us. She listened to our his...tory, issues, and concerns with attentiveness and interest. She helped us to understand what to expect during every stage of the process as it evolved and unfolded. She always answered our questions between meetings with prompt and helpful responses. Whether in her office or the court room, she was always professionally dressed and mannered, punctual, and well prepared. She guided us with compassion and respect and reminded us that no matter how tough the process got (which it did at times challenge our emotional strength and endurance), to never lose sight of why we were there. Lisa is a mother herself and therefore, possesses that ingrained understanding of parental relationships and family dynamics, but she also brings forth a wisdom that I assume can only come from many years of dedicated work experience. Lawyers are regular people too, and therefore, there exists all kinds. There are certainly stereotypical "sharky", "dirty" lawyers that exist in the field, but it is not true that you need on of those to win your case. Sometimes you just need a wise, educated, assertive, and articulate person to advocate for you and help you fight for family justice. I would highly recommend anyone looking to hire a dependable, professional, respectable, experienced lawyer, to call Lisa Stengel.

We hired Lisa for a Family Law case and looking back wish we hadn't. First of all she is extremely unresponsive. It was not unusual to wait days without phone calls or emails being returned and often times when they finally were, it was clear that none of the follow-ups that had been discussed in p...rior meetings had even been completed. She also took on not one, but two clients that were related to the person that we were engaged in a custody battle with. I see that as a huge conflict of interest. After what we believe to be a lack of progress on our case we asked that Lisa no longer represent us. We are now waiting for the balance of our retainer to be returned, roughly $1,000, and unfortunately she's been extremely unresponsive in this area as well.