Mark Leroy Means

I hired Mr. Means to write a cease and desist letter. Since I live out of state he said to write such a letter would cost 350.00-500.00 because it takes time to put it together. He instructed me to send him the necessary emails, which I did on July 20th. I have Mailtrak on my gmail which lets me k...now when my emails were read. Mr. Means called me from his office on July 31st and had not looked at any of the emails. He was trying to write the letter while he had me on the phone asking questions. I kept saying please open the email that stemmed my having to hire an attorney in Idaho. It was useless. He sent me the draft with multiple errors including the date of an incident, he also had many run on sentences and misspelled words. I revised the letter and added the necessary corrections for his review. The next day he sent me the same letter without ever looking at the revised version. I pointed out that the letter was the same with the same mistake to which he responded to by telling me he sent the wrong file. I looked at mailtrak and saw he opened the email with the revised letter 2 minutes before sending the old version again which told me he never read the revisions. I then asked for him to reimburse me and he said he would but never did. He wanted me to give him my address that I refuse to do since I don't trust him - I have everything documented in texts and emails and thank god for mailtrak which doesn't make this a he said she said. This lawyer is dishonest and I would not do business with him. I have filed a complaint with the bar that I am certain I will prevail on. Shame on you Mr. Means for how you conduct yourself. Shame on you!

I highly recommend Mark. After reading all of the other 5 star reviews on Avvo I decided to give him a call. He was patient and answered all of my many many questions. His rates are extremely fair and he is very knowledgeable in his field. I'm glad I can add one more positive review to his profile. ... Thank you for all of your help, Mark

I was involved in a car accident. None of which was my fault. I had never been in this situation before, never even been in an accident before, let alone thinking I needed a lawyer for one. Mark told both my husband and I that we would have nothing to worry about. Months went by, we didn't worry abou...t anything. Come to find out my bills started getting sent to collections because he wasn't worried about them either. I ended up paying most of the doctor bills out of pocket, before any settlement was made. Mark made me email him the same documents multiple times because he had lost track of them. I called ALL of the doctor offices/hospitals every month giving them updates on my case. Mark never called any of them, until it was time to settle and then he was calling to find out how much money to send them, which he kept telling me he would talk them down on the amount owed...and he didn't! When I asked Mark questions about how things would pan out in the end close to settlement time he explained to me that none of the side things that I had paid for and none of the side things that he had paid for would be taken out of the settlement, it was simply Mark takes 1/3, the bills get paid (whatever I hadn't already paid) and I get the rest.....That is NOT AT ALL how it turned out. . He charged me for mailing things and making copies of things. This man ended up taking home more money, doing nothing, than I did, after spending 4 days/nights in the hospital, missing work - 6 mths recovering, paying bills up front, calling ALL of the doctor offices myself, and not being able to take care of my family...How can this man sleep at night! I asked him over and over again for a copy of my contract and he would never send it to me. He told me that normally he has his clients come into the office and talk over the accounting aspect of things, nope he sent a check in the mail. With one sheet explaining where all of my settlement went. He took his 1/3 PLUS fees for this and that and the other....NOT A FLAT FEE!!! By this point I was upset. I called him and texted and never any response until about a week and a half later, I get a letter in the mail stating that his offices sees my file as closed, along with that was finally a copy of a contract. VERY UNPROFESSIONAL!!! He is trying to be a one man show and doesn't juggle very well. I was NOT at all impressed. I did tell Mark close to time to receive the settlement that I was happy with the results...I got my full policy amount, which I could have done on my own. Lesson learned the hard way.

Mark Means has been an excellent attorney for us. We've been battling a rough custody issue for 6 years now on and off and every time he's there for us. He fights hard and answers our questions, calls, emails and texts In a very timely matter. He's always working hard to ensure that if we felt worrie...d or uneasy about a court date, that he would be there to walk us through each age of the way. He's very affordable and makes this process much more simple. I would and have recommend him to anyone who needs a lawyer. We won't go with anyone else.