Julianne Marie Markiewicz

Julianne was able to help me when my ex-husband refused to pay full child support over the previous 7 years. I was so nervous about going back to court but Julianne was calm, supportive and very efficient with the process. I appreciated her sense of humor and making me feel as if I was the only important thing going on in her practice and life when she was dealing with my case. We were able to win big in court! I later dealt with harassing behavior and damage to physical property and Julianne was very effective in getting a Harassment Restraining Order for me and proceeded to help me with the city taking action and pressing charges. She gives 100% to her clients but is now a trusted friend.

After handling my divorce 17 months earlier, I found myself requiring representation due to my ex-husband demanding visitation/custody changes. I immediately went back to Julianne as she had provided excellent representation in my divorce. She again helped me see my options logically and weigh out the best route for me to pursue according to my goals in our case. I was very happy with the outcome of our case and still have full physical custody of my girls!

Not only did Julie provide exceptional legal advice she also did so in a manner that was very thoughtful and respectful to the stress I was under. From the start she was active in my case. I never had to wait more then a day to get a response to my questions and concerns and she worked tirelessly to ensure that I receive optimal resolution. Her work was strategic and measured and I especially appreciated was her confidence. Julie was also very forthcoming regarding costs. She did not over bill and always provided clear documentation regarding the time spend on my case. I cannot speak highly enough about Julie's professional skills and affective abilities. More then two thumbs up!

My experience with Julianne was outstanding. Julianne was sure I looked at all of my options logically when I was experiencing personal turmoil. With her vast law knowledge, Julianne was committed to ensuring my daughters and I were taken care of both financially and emotionally. I have never had need to secure a lawyer prior to this experience but was thankfully referred to Julianne from a friend. I sincerely believe I picked the most comprehensive lawyer in the Twin Cities area and will use Julianne for all my legal needs in the future.

I hired Julianne to help me negotiate an exit package from my employer after my position had been eliminated. Although the initial offer from the company was pretty good, and I had very little leverage, Julianne was able to help me greatly improve the offer. She was responsive, knowledgeable and her counsel was fantastic.

Julianne advised me every step of the way during a recent contentious employment matter. She offered spot on advice, helped me devise and craft my negotiation strategy, and was calm throughout the storm. She DOUBLED my settlement. There is no one I would trust more to handle legal matters on my behalf. I refer to everyone I know!

I was very nervous to file for a divorce, even though I talked to her about it 4 years earlier. It was something I had to do. She was so reassuring and kept me totally informed every step of the way. She returned my calls and emails very promtly and was/is friendly and seemed concerned about me. Divorces are expensive....but she was very thorough and made sure that I was getting all that I was entitled to. I felt confident that she would do a good job!

Julie is an excellent attorney. From the moment I met her, I knew that I was in GREAT hands. Getting divorced was hard and she made it easy for me by explaining everything. She is a great listener. When it came time to go to Court, she rocked!

This attorney omitted labor market data that documents a racial gap in unemployment for monitories and furthermore, this attorney adds to racial injustice in our court system. I am encouraging all minorities to boycott this attorney.

My ex-husband wanted to take me to court to change a few items in our divorce decree that I did not agree with. We were trying to reach a compromise over email but that did not appear to be working. I called J. Markiewicz Law Office to set up a consult. The day before my consult with her, J. Markiewicz called me on the phone and asked me to email documents to her so she could become better familiar with my case. I emailed them to her. At the consult, we discussed sending a letter to my ex’s lawyer with a potential compromise. I hired her and placed a $2000 retainer. She wrote a letter to my ex’s lawyer, but I didn’t want to send it because my ex and I were still emailing about a compromise which we did within a week. During that week, J. Markiewicz emailed and texted me to approve the letter which I said I wasn’t ready to do just yet. After receiving a text that she was uncomfortable with my waiting, and exasperated that I had to defend working on a compromise, I told J. Markiewicz that I no longer needed her services and asked for my un-used retainer back. Despite the fact that we met for a “free” consultation, and the only thing I authorized was the creation of a letter, J. Markiewicz only returned a little over half of my retainer. She unethically charged me $455 – over an hour of her time – for reading the documents that she asked me to send to her before I had even met and hired her, and a $117.50 charge just to “Open a new file.” I asked J. Markiewicz to refund the charges since she was the one to ask for the emailed documents before I had met her or hired her, and, because she gave no upfront information about the “Open New File” costs. She initially said she would be open to discussing this concern, but then ignored my email communications until I filed this review. She has since emailed and stated that she’d refund only $345 and that she’d consider the case closed. She mailed a check for this amount which is less than her unethical charges.

My fiance' and I recently engaged Ms. Markiewicz to help prepare a prenup agreement and had an absolutely horrific experience. It appeared that Ms. Markiewicz approached our prenup as a hostile divorce (rather than a loving marriage) pitting my future bride and I against each other, employing emotionally charged adversarial negotiation tactics and dragging out an expensive lawyer intensive process to...literally...the day before our wedding. She dismissed the process I had proposed where my fiance' and I would work together (doing much of the work ourselves) to craft a fair and equitable agreement through an amicable collaborative process with guidance and feedback from our respective counsel. She also ignored my request to provide an overview of the process, key milestones and timeline that she would suggest as an alternative. Instead, she just moved forward in a manner that lead to a drawn out, time consuming, resource intensive (read "lots of billable hours") process that dramatically increased our legal fees; created intense stress, conflict and emotional trauma; and dragged the "negotiation" process out to...literally...the day before our wedding. And to top things off, she billed us double the hours that our other lawyer did...even though he crafted and authored the multiple drafts of the proposed prenup and the key legal documents. This nightmare of a process resulted in prenup that neither one of us felt good about, legal fees that were 3-4 times what we had expected, a prenup that got signed the AFTERNOON before our wedding and an excruciatingly stressful...downright traumatic...process that led to my fiance' and I "breaking up" twice in the two weeks prior to our wedding (including 4 days before). P.S. This review features no embellishment or exaggeration (and I have the email audit trail to back up every word). I had never met...or even heard of...Ms. Markiewicz prior to this prenup process, do not work in the legal profession nor have any other potential conflicts of interests. I invested the time to write this review solely in the interest of helping others avoid repeating what was one of the most traumatic professional experiences of my life. One that came very close to aborting my wedding and costing me the woman that I love, adore and cherish with all my heart.