Stacey Janssen

I should have been forewarned when she didn’t show up to our first meeting. She called and said she thought it was a Zoom meeting and was on her way. We waited for 40 minutes. I was told to come to our first meeting with two packets of papers filled out. She didn’t mention costs but came up with a pl...an of action that was never followed through on. We were told to send in a retainer for $1,000 and less than a week later it was raised to $1,500. We were told they would petition the court by Wednesday. I kept having to track her and her assistant down. I was told it was because she’s so good at what she does she’s in high demand. On Friday they finally returned my call to tell me they’d lost all of our paperwork. By this time our needs changed and I told them because they’re never available and unprofessional to lose all our paperwork we’re going to go with another lawyer. They did nothing for us and now they won’t return our retainer.

I hired Stacey for a simple, elective, but important family matter. I told her exactly what I wanted done and my conditions for moving forward (or else I would chose to drop the entire matter and not go to court). She left my mandatory condition out of the petition and it was not even considered by... the Judge. Had I known this would happen, I would have walked away and not done anything. I even reminded her of my condition while waiting for the judge seat himself. She decided what should be done in this family matter, not me. And later acted as if she never knew of my mandatory condition for moving forward.