My understanding is Rebecca would be a good lawyer for certain kinds of cases. However, I hired Rebecca to handle my divorce and custody case. It was the first and only legal fight I was ever involved in. Somehow, I found myself managing almost all of the case strategy, being the one to stay on top o...f communication and planning (because she could or would not respond in a timely manner), and on more than one occasion listening to her vent her personal frustrations about opposing counsel.
If I had any experience with lawyers before I would have dropped her in the first few weeks. My naivete in sticking with her cost me a year of legal nonsense, including expensive and needless extensions for every filing and motion. Her tactical incompetence and bad advice had me terrified of anything my ex might do, and led to months of jumping through hoops doing things that no judge would have made me do. In the end, I lost *thousands* of dollars following her advice, thousands of dollars in legal fees, and thousands of dollars in retirement funds. Because I did stick with her, I am now having to re-open custody and support fights, just to clean up all the holes.