Stephen E. Fisher

Stephen was an incredibly unorganized and ineffective attorney. He already has been disciplined by a state licensing authority three times and I intend to file a complaint as well. I wish I would have checked this and his reviews before hiring him. He charged me over 7 thousand dollars and got almos...t nothing done. He continued to charge me for his mistakes that he made. He forgot to schedule an interpreter that I needed for the case and then charged me for all of the rescheduling that took place due to his mistake. My case was delayed and rescheduled two times and he continued to charge me even though it was all due to his mistakes. The day of the final hearing of our divorce, he scheduled another hearing an hour before and then arrived an hour late. Because of that, our case was delayed almost two months and he continued charging me. I was charged $220 for this court appearance to which he was an hour late and the trial never happened! I emailed him after this to make sure that he had scheduled the interpreter as he forgot the first time for the temporary hearing, and he charged me for my email and then the emails to schedule the interpreter. Also, in the beginning of the case, I was trying to figure out how to get my soon to be ex husband out of the house as he was being incredibly hateful and antagonistic to me and our 4 year old son. I emailed him and his assistant Sue Ann Bright about it and the assistant scolded me for having told him about the divorce instead of trying to support and help me. Overall, my experience with him and his assistant at Martin Attorneys was horrendous. I ended up switching attorneys and got the case taken care of quickly and effectively. Please reconsider using Stephen Fisher as your attorney. He makes sure to charge for every tiny thing but does not take care of business.

I hired Stephen Fisher in hopes that he would fight for me in the matter of a child custody case. He reassured me that I had no reason to be fearful of in losing the case, which was the complete opposite of what happened. He did not fight whatsoever, seemed really careless, was rude to me each time w...e had to go to court(mind you, I was the one who hired him, so he had no right), and just didn’t really seem like he was very prepared for the court date. I’ve paid him nearly $6,000 and it’s been the biggest waste of money I’ve ever had to spend. I could’ve gotten the same results, if not better, with a {free} Public Defender. Save your time and money and go to someone else.

All in all, I paid this man around $3,000 before deciding to go with another attorney. First, he failed to get divorce paperwork filed before my wife did (we filed on the same day), which meant having to be on the defensive the rest of the time. Then it became an issue of paying his substantial fees ...and travel expenses because of this (I dismissed him from the case before it came to that). I paid $25-50 for every email I sent him, and at least a couple of them went unresponded to. His case manager was rude and disrespectful, and he was also quite disrespectful on his last phone call to me (regarding my dismissal email), and I got charged $82 for that. I spent weeks just sitting with no progress on the divorce and no updates. It was a terrible experience. The attorney I hired to finish the divorce charged a flat fee (no nickel-and-dime surprises), and has already taken action to expedite the process. I do not recommend this attorney or his office.