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.

I hired Rebecca for a case involving family law, and retained her for about two years. I would have switched lawyers, but I kept thinking that we were about done and I didn’t want to start over finding a lawyer. As a person I liked Rebecca; as a lawyer I did not. I don’t have the energy or time to ...go into specifics, but suffice it to say that Rebecca disappointed me so many times, in so many ways, and on so many levels that I don’t think I have any choice but to give her this poor review.

Rebecca Griffin Abney is our family attorney. Never have I seen or heard of an attorney be so personally vested in what they do, until we hired Rebecca. She has more integrity, compassion, and fight in her than anyone we have ever met. From the moment we got the call from CPS about what my son's "dad..." was doing, she has been our attorney. She has been my sons advocate until the end. When she switched law firms, she offered to stay on as second chair pro bono to make sure he was taken care of. Instead we followed her to Simer & Tetens. She was the reason we went to Giles & Giles in the first place. Our case had ups and downs, almost done to starting over moments. But on the last day when Rebecca walked into a termination hearing with her arsenal, the POS "dad" was so intimidated that he signed his rights over right there. After two and a half years of fighting, it was over in twenty minutes all because of how thorough and prepared she was. She remembered facts of our case from the first meeting we had, on the very last day. She is not just an attorney, she is an advocate, a friend, and a mercenary for our family. Highly recommend Rebecca Griffin Abney, if you want someone who truly cares for your family and your case. We love you Rebecca. We could not have done this with anyone else. ---The Lidens