Lori Anne Spearman

Lori was recommended as someone would be an advocate for my children and me, leaving an abusive home situation with my ex husband, who had an open CPS case against him and had temporarily lost custody due to extreme abuse. The end result of working with Lori was a financial and custodial mess. My k...ids were not protected, and more than a year was wasted with nothing settled. My children were still in an abusive and neglectful situation with their dad, and he was still behind on support, with minimal to no help from Lori. She just took notes on everything for a year and told me to "wait" to make changes to the custody agreement, leaving the kids at risk. Her receptionist is rude and unhelpful, and Lori admitted to grossly overcharging me, and in the end, cut my bill down by 1/3 to fix her "error". I am still in custody and support hell, and have retained a new lawyer after Lori left me hanging saying that she was "too busy" to respond to a motion filed against me regarding the kids, one that she had weeks of warning on, one that she said she would get back to me on ASAP. Getting through to her or her staff is a nightmare, and be prepared to be charged $250 for a seven minute phone call, or $20 every time you speak with the receptionist, or $10 for every email (returned or unreturned). Also be prepared that they don't keep track of their accounting and will forget you've made a payment, because they misplaced it. Expect to wait months for assistance on matters, and don't count on her to be there when time is running out on an important matter. In the end when I was served with a mandated maximum twenty day response time, Lori knowingly and purposely left me and more importantly my children out in the cold, and didn't think twice about it. She is one person when you first meet and retain her, and another when you continue to work with her. I cannot think of a less competent, less caring person that should be practicing family law. I could not in good conscience let this go without warning others. I wish I could go into more detail, but there is a character limit for these reviews.