Alan Craig Haston

While I have no doubt that Mr. Haston is very qualified, and his staff seems very nice, I hired an attorney to accomplish something. Like many have said here, my initial consultation was full of hope. Once I paid my retainer though, my case was transferred to an associate that I can only assume was i...ncredibly overworked. I hung in there for a year, hoping we would accomplish something towards what should have been a fairly simply divorce (short term and no children), and spent a lot of money. I changed attorneys, actually got to communicate with the attorney I hired, and wrapped everything up in a few months. I wish I would have wised up sooner...

This law firm has cost me nearly $100k and has proved to be incompetent. Craig Haston negligently drafted and had me sign a settlement agreement that awarded all items in the marital home including my personal property, heirlooms etc. to my wife. He then tried to blame me for this! His assistant poin...ted out that the original draft of the agreement had a carve out whose intention was to allow me to retain such items, but Haston ignored it. The State Bar, remarkably, excuses such acts of omission and negligence from its disciplinary process, so I have no comeback against a lawyer I wish I had never appointed and who has been a huge let down. I recommend taking your business elsewhere. I agree with Susan: this firm takes on more work than it can handle competently.

I'm not one to typically review anything, but my service was so poor that I feel like I don't want others to fall prey to The Haston Law Firm. I originally had a $300 consult with Craig Haston and he filled me up with hope and peace of mind. I paid my $3000 retainer and then nothing. I was assigned a...nother Lawyer to my case named Corey Miller who was so over booked with cases that after 8 months we got no results. During that time I got no feed back. I had to call, email and push them to do their jobs. Essentially they took my money and provided next to nothing return. Please do yourself a favor and do not use this Firm-

In my opinion, hiring this law firm was a very poor choice for representation, and complete waste of money. The flags began to raise when I found inaccurate billing on my invoice. If getting charged at a rate of $300 per hour for a case that wasn’t mine doesn’t seem bad enough, it only got worse. ... Meeting after meeting, I would see little to no progress with my case. The typical response was that they couldn’t reach the opposing counsel. It quickly became evident that there was absolutely no strategy or written plan of action to follow, and when I asked for some definitive next steps because I felt things were in limbo, no meaningful response. The invoices, however, were like clockwork. My opinion was that this was more about the money, and less about getting the case to closure. Do yourself a considerable favor and think twice if you are evaluating this firm for representation.

I engaged with Mr. Haston to handle my divorce with a child case. Initially, the case was contested, after which the ex-wife and I decided it would be in our best interests to come to terms and settle on an arrangement that we both agreed with. I do not question Craig's legal abilities, but his... business practices are unethical. My case ended up costing $15,000 with still no final divorce decree filed. After reaching out multiple times to his office to ask if a Settlement draft could be completed, all I received were vague responses. However, during this time his billing personnel reached out to me several times asking for more money, completely ignoring my plea for completing my divorce. When I eventually escalated the situation, Craig became defensive and tried to say that I was "threatening" and "bullying" him, when all I was doing was exerting my right as a paying client and a citizen. He mentioned that sometimes it's hard to balance what the client wants with reality. The reality is, my wife and I ended up finalizing the divorce ourselves pro se, within our agreed terms, and the process was extremely quick and smooth. Also, during the initial consultation where I was billed for an hour, he used some of that time to talk about his personal family life, and even cut it short by a few minutes. Sounds petty, but when you are being billed $400 an hour, every minute is valuable. His office also failed to send me invoices that were requested multiple times, and then tried to charge me interest on invoices that I never even received. It is clear that Mr. Haston has the interest of his firm collecting your money firsthand over actually being a good humanitarian and representing you diligently. I have no reason whatsoever to speak anything but the truth or spend my time writing a review for something that means nothing. I'm sure Craig will come on here trying to defend himself, but facts are facts and if you do end up using Craig as your family attorney, be prepared to have more emotional strain added on top of what you are already going through.