Janice L. Berman

During the time I had retained Ms. Berman I often experienced long delays in her response and last minute hurried decisions. Further, she gave advice that was not in alignment with the court order with respects to child support obligation and which could have resulted in a contempt of court decision.... Ms. Berman did not provide a level of service consistent across her client base and fee structure. I would advise you watch out for these and other types of issues when retaining her services.

I had high hopes when I first met Janice, she seemed knowledgeable, fierce and friendly at the same time. Little did i realize, she was not in this case for my best interest. She did not keep me informed of decisions that her and the opposing attorney made without my knowledge after previously discus...sing a completely different settlement with me in my divorce case. She informed me that my ex had contested my divorce (we were originally in an uncontested case) when he actually did nothing like this, as I later found out. This caused us months of extra deliberation to figure out what had happened. She later on dropped my case, in which the opposing attorney actually fought her on, accusing her of deliberately delaying our case and causing increased cost and grief. The discussions I had with her and the opposing attorney had regarding her dropping the case were all added to my bill, costing me over $2,000 and, since she dropped my case, making me find another attorney to clean up her mess. She delayed the proceedings in every possible way just to make an extra buck. I would not recommend her to anyone, even in the simplest of divorce cases, she found a way to make it complicated and expensive, when all you really want is a resolution that is fair.