Jamie Matthew Kerr

Jamie and the folks at this firm are exceptional at what they do. They handle difficult situations with great compassion and professionalism. Even humor when it's called for. In my case they advised me on and handled a divorce which I dragged out for much longer than necessary, yet they were always t...here for me without judgement. They work hard to understand your situation and treat all parties with care and understanding. An excellent attorney and an excellent firm

Regardless of circumstances, there is nothing good about divorce, or fun about it by any means. That said, Jamie and his team were exceptional every step of the way and I would recommend him without a doubt. He had patience with me as I navigated a difficult divorce situation and ensured I was fully ...informed of my options and rights throughout the process. When I decided to move through it all in the most financially responsible way, he was able to provide advice that kept money in my pocket instead of extra legal fees for either party. Jamie was great to work with, and Emily, his paralegal, was also fantastic. The two were always quick with responses and communication and always kept me in the loop with process. I couldn't recommend Jamie more, if you find yourself in the murky waters of divorce.

Beware of being billed for far more hours than you requested. If you have a smaller task such as reviewing an existing prenup draft, I’d steer clear of this office and find an attorney who will do the work for a flat fee you negotiate ahead of time. I am sure there are options for local attorneys ...that are far more above board about their costs and that will follow your requests. I worked with Jamie Kerr on reviewing an existing prenup that my fiancee’s attorney had drafted. I had already reviewed the agreement myself and we had gone through a few revisions with my fiancee’s attorney before I was ready to find my own attorney to do a review for me. I had never worked with an attorney before, and I was uncomfortable with depositing a $2500 retainer for something as small as a prenup review as I felt I would have little recourse if I were billed for far more hours than I wanted to spend on this review. During our initial consult meeting we discussed the retainer and my concerns about how much this would end up costing. I asked that Jamie only spend time on major issues with the document so as to limit time spent on my review. Before agreeing to further services I requested in writing that we not use a retainer and that Jamie not spend more than an hour or so on the review without telling me that this was shaping up to be a much larger task with unexpected issues in the prenup so as to get my approval to spend more time on it. He received approval to move forward without using a retainer and I assumed got the message about how much I wanted to spend on this review. I received a new draft of the agreement from my fiancee’s attorney with changes made based on how we decided to simplify it in the initial consult meeting with Jamie. I did exactly as Jamie requested to help him get through the review more quickly by giving him a redlined version of the new draft with Word’s track changes feature turned on so he could easily see exactly what was changed. I was blindsided when I ended up being billed for almost six hours of work on top of the initial consult fee, so nearly $2000 for a prenup *review*. This is more than double what we paid to have the entire agreement drafted and put through several revisions, and multiple times the $500 range we’d heard of for a prenup review. In our initial consult meeting Jamie insisted that he had no way to determine ahead of time how long this review would take. I believe he had enough information after that meeting to inform me that my request to spend another hour or so reviewing it would fall far short of how long he would likely spend on it. Not giving me realistic expectations demonstrated very poor client management. With Jamie we did only one round of review and the agreement did not become any more complicated than what we went over together in the consult meeting. He also ignored my request to inform me that the review was taking longer than I anticipated and to ask how I would like to proceed at that point.