Mark Christopher Lane

dont waste your money!!! the staff is very unprofessional, never calls back the paralegal Alyssa acts so sweet when you first meet her but the truth comes out when there is no follow through. I paid Mr. Lane a $ 3500 dollar retainer to do a easy custody case said it should.only take a few.months well... 12 months later and a new bill for 7000 more and I still am no where!!!

I was slammed with a child support payment I couldn't afford. I went to Mr. Lane's office, and after working with him, he managed to get my payments down to something I could afford. Mr. Lane and his staff worked hard to keep me informed every step of the way. It was refreshing knowing my situation w...as taken care of. Thank you very much Mr. Lane!!!!!

Mr. Lane represented us in 2012 in modifying child support and enforcing visitation. Twice during the course of him representing us we had filled out the grievance form with the TX state bar and ended up changing our minds because we couldn't afford to hire another attorney. We understood that Mr. L...ane would not always be able to call us back immediately, however after receiving our retainer, he NEVER returned our call. We received calls from his staff on occasion telling us that he would be calling us, or that he was in court, or out of the office. One of the times we called him was at his request per an email that we call him to set up a phone meeting to discuss our case. After calling 5 different times, we finally got a meeting set up. The first time we took off work to be available and never received a call. The second time the meeting was set up, again he did not call us. After we got tired of this treatment and sent him an email about our concerns, we received a very nasty call from his staff informing us that they did not appreciate us trying to get them in trouble, that they didn't work for us, they worked for Mr. Lane and that they had far more important cases than ours to deal with and even told us that we were not a priority on their desk. We immediately emailed Mr. Lane about this conversation which took place last summer and we NEVER heard back from him. I understand customer service. There are times when in fact you may feel that way about a client. But to say it out loud? Most people would be fired as soon as their boss heard about it. When our case was settled in September, Mr. Lane did not even show up to court. He instead sent an associate. We hired Mr. Lane in December of 2011 with a $3,500 retainer. When the temporary order was entered in April, Mr. Lane told us he was "almost embarrassed to take our money" as the case was so simple. The final order was approved by the court in September of 2012. In January of 2013, we received our first and only bill from him since giving him the retainer...and it was for almost $10,000!

Above and beyond my expectations. I had already been through one horrible experience with a BAD attorney in Fort Worth. Mark Lane was patient, informative and very honest with me. He let me know right up front what I was up against and there were no easy answers to my situation. My divorce was awf...ul from day one. The child custody issues went from bad to ridiculous. Mark helped through the process. He allowed me to come to his office and spent a lot of time explaining every issue. He didn't charge me for the weekly office visits which I needed just to stay sane! He even prayed for me when I was there. I spoke to many other clients while I was in the office and everyone seemed to have the same opinion of Mark Lane. His office staff was knowledgable in every situation. They always called me back when I had questions. I have read some of the reviews on this site and they must be people that are just bitter from their own divorces because this attorney was different and truly a good guy. I would recommend him to my own mother. Even my ex has since told me he would recommend him!

This attorney was good to start with, very proactive and seemed to be working for me. When a situation with my job forced me to relocate this firm not only stopped communicating with me and would not return a phone call but stopped providing updated case information and legal advice about how to pro...ceed with my case. Before I fired them I left 14 messages over 35 days and had only one call from them and that was only to ask a question posed by the opposing attorney still no advice for me on my relocation. This office then became very rude and when I fired them they submitted their withdrawal of counsel for the same day in a separate court as a hearing that they never informed me of was set. When I went to court for the withdrawal of counsel I was slammed with a new hearing and no notice of the hearing. Due to the information withheld from me by this firm I lost custody of my daughter to her mother who had not contacted or visited her for 2 straight years while she was residing in another country (not job related she just wanted to be there). This is the best attorney my ex-wife could have ever had. Their lack of communication has cost me not only their attorney fees and the custody of my daughter but the added expense of gaining adequate counsel to represent me. I am still in the process of undoing their inadequate and non-communicative representation.