Lisa Baker Canterberry

Ms. Canterberry is an amazing person. I am 23 years old and the father of a wonderful little boy who has been living with me since he was 14 days old. His mother, 20, had a lot of personal mental health issues, lived in another state, and by her own admission, did not want to be a mother. When our so...n was 5 months old, she decided that she wanted to be a mother and wanted her son back, even though she had only visited with him for a total of 4 hours in a 5 month period of time. I didn't know what to do, but Ms. Canterberry did. She walked me step by step through the whole process of engaging in a child custody case. She helped me make sense of all the legal jumbo. She answered my many questions and calmed my fears. I was so afraid the court would take my son away because I was male and unmarried, a fear his mother kept alive by telling me over and over again, that Texas was a mommy state and would rule in her favor. But Ms. Canterberry just dug in and prepared me for the fight. After all was said and done, I was granted legal and primary custody of my son. Ms. Canterberry helped make that happen and I am so grateful. She was understanding and supportive, even allowing a poor 23 year old to make payments on his bill, so that a happy little boy and his proud daddy could stay together.

When it became necessary for me to hire an attorney, like most anyone I picked up the phone and started to call around. Most of the time, a secretary answered the phone and took a message. Others always went to voicemail. I remember the first time I called Lisa, she answered on the 1st call... in... her car... after hours... on her way to picking up a family member. I expected to be hurried off the phone and started to just leave my info as a courtesy to the timing of the call. She wouldn't have any of that and immediately I was telling her some of my story and my situation. At the end of the lengthy call, she was passionately and emotionally engaged to my child's situation. There was a fundamental core understanding from that 1st call, that my situation was truly important to her and whether I ever called back or retained her, that a high-caliber individual with decades of experience had just taken her personal time to care about my child and I. This sincerity that I felt from her was followed up and validated in our 1st meeting together. She spends her time in court and the rest of the time with her family. And so it was refreshing to find an attorney who didn't need an expensive fancy front office. Just her, and a close bunch of colleagues who she called on as needed. She prefers to handle the cases and even the details of the cases herself... and not have other people hand her a document to sign before going back to their golf game. I, as a single father with limited resources was so very intimidated about how I could afford the process of filing against my ex, who had nearly unlimited funds. But, Lisa talked to me about what I could do and over what timeline... and she worked out a plan for compensation that was fair and also met my ability. And so we began. My ex hired one of the fanciest, rootin-tootin celebrity lawyers with a big staff, a bigger head and the biggest wallet that you could imagine. Well guess what, my experienced, organized, strategic, prepared, scrappy, self-managed attorney stopped the Rolls Royce snob in its tracks in our 1st hearing. And that continued all the way to the finish line, when my child and I were given the full rights and togetherness that we both desired. Everything was worked out to my satisfaction and my case is now finished and over. If you need an attorney who is beyond capable, thinks both aggressively and strategically, cares about you personally, works creatively to customize your needs and means, is an absolute bulldog in the courtroom, won't nickel and dime you to death in your communications and preparations, takes your calls and emails seemingly 24/7 and responds sometimes within minutes, and puts your case 10,000% to importance to in her profession... please call Lisa and learn what I did... that there is a lawyer out there that cares. A lawyer that doesn't put $ first. A lawyer that is honest and sincere. A lawyer that is both passionate and compassionate. A lawyer that is hands on. A lawyer that is so far above and beyond that she transcends her profession and is that rare specimen that you would think you would never find. In an industry that is known for its cliche expectations, she is anything but. Call, meet with, and hire Lisa! And, Lisa, from the bottom of my heart, my child's heart and my family's heart, Thank You.