Richard Michael Pinol

I can’t recommend Rich P. highly enough as a child custody lawyer. From the very beginning, he was professional, knowledgeable, and genuinely invested in protecting my child’s best interests. He took the time to explain every step of the process, answered my questions clearly, and made an incredibly ...stressful situation feel manageable. Rich is strategic, prepared, and confident in the courtroom, but also compassionate and understanding as a person. I always felt heard, supported, and well-represented. Thanks to his dedication and hard work, I felt secure knowing my case was in the best possible hands. I received the best possible outcome thanks to Rich P. If you need a strong, trustworthy advocate for a custody matter, Rich P. is the lawyer you want on your side.

Rich was an absolutely amazing skilled, empathic, and supportive attorney. My divorce was unnecessarily difficult, and he guided me through the process with open communication. Rich was great about offering recommendations as situations arose to best handle the legal challenges while recognizing how ...it impacted me as a client. Divorce is not for the faint of heart, it is difficult for everyone involved, the best you can hope for is an attorney who will be with you every step in the way with your best interests at heart. He is the best!!!

Hardee, Piñol & Kracke PLLC was recommended to me by previous attorney that could not keep me as a client due to conflict of interest. I thought I had a decent attorney before, but you don't know that you have a great attorney until you've had bad one first. Rich, his team, and honestly the entire H...,P, & K office were the utmost professional. Other attorneys in the office helped my case when Rich happened to be sick or in trial that day. Rich and his team will reply to your email several times a day when you have questions, or will schedule a phone call with you, often the day of, to answer more complex questions. The most I wait for a response to a question was one business day. Litigation is often stressful, but Rich brought his common sense, knowledge, and empathy for the situation every meeting/ hearing. He is a very competent attorney. If he didn't know an answer to a question he would get back to you promptly. You hear a lot about attorneys being greedy and just dragging things out for money while people are hurting and needing resolve. In my opinion, the family court system is corrupt and unjust for father's just wanting the same time and rights as mothers. For too long, past generations of men gave up their rights to the mothers making it an uphill battle for fathers to have equal time and equal rights of their own children. Our constitutional rights of innocent until proven guilty does not apply in civil cases. It is in fact the opposite, guilty until proven innocent. In Idaho, men have an average of 24.1% custody of their children. If you are looking for equal rights and equal time with your children in Idaho, Rich is the attorney for you. He will work towards what you want and give you reasonable expectations of the outcome given your specific situation. Rich is in the family law business for the right reasons and he cares for his clients. He will not drain you of resources and time for something that is unobtainable in your situation. He will give you direction to do some of the easier work and research on your own saving you thousands in the end, or him and his team will do it all. If you listen to his directions and actually follow them, you will have a great shot at what he says he can do. Rich is full of common sense. He presses the hard questions and does not let them go unanswered. He's able to roll with the punch and the curve balls in the courtroom that a trial throws at you and him. He won a father (me) a modification case in court after only having the average 20% custody that so many fathers are stuck with. Even if Rich did not win my case, I would still be writing this review, because he is that incredible at what he does. I would have went home with confidence that he and I did everything we could within the system we were given to work in. He has to work within the corrupt family court system just like the rest of us and he does it well.

The Team at Hardee, Piñol & Kracke, PLLC has been fantastic during the past few months. This is especially true of Rich Pinol. He’s provided excellent, realistic feedback and transparent legal counsel. Rich knows the mechanics of the courts and bases his rationale on facts and logic. I greatly apprec...iate all he has done.

Richard Pinol and his team did an amazing job! They went above and beyond for me. I live out of state and I had a challenging case from the start. Richard and his team (Devory and Asha) assured me that everything was going to be okay. They got the job done in a very timely manner and we were able to ...settle before going to trial which saved me thousands of dollars. That is something I thought would never happen because the mom was fighting for full custody and was completely unwilling to work with me. She was fighting me every step of the way but Richard was confident, calm, smart and could also be a little aggressive in the court room IF he needed to be to get his point across. I was very impressed. I would not want to put my trust in anybody other than Richard Pinol. He is worth every dime. Thanks again!