Amy L Butters

The only reason she gets one start is because they made me click a star. We hired Amy and I can honestly say this was the biggest mistake we had ever made. Our experience was a complete nightmare. We've been working with her for over a year. She had asked us for the same documents multiple times that... we had already given her. When we showed up to court she didn't turn in paperwork on time so they had to reschedule us months later. She didn't call us back promptly or keep us updated on what was going on. She also NEVER notified us that the courts had raised our payments. We found out when we went to make a payment it went up over $100. After our second court date we thought everything was finalized correctly and just went on with our life. Months later we received a notice from the court that they were dropping our case because she didn't file ROUTINE paperwork. She had a small time frame to turn it in and SHE DIDNT. They dismissed our case and she told us she would take care of it. We received notice that she put in a motion to vacate the dismissal and she assured us everything was ok. Then we received notice that there was another court date and she told us we didn't need to go and she would take care of it. We called her after the supposed court date and she told us we would receive notice everything was back in place and we were good to go. WELL 2 days after that phone call we got a letter from the courts stating our case was PERMANENTLY dismissed because SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP TO COURT. We have tried to call her multiple times to resolve this issue. Her assistant answered and said Amy doesn't know why they dismissed our case. THE PAPERWORK CLEARLY STATES SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP TO COURT. She has not returned any of our phone calls. Her assistant offered for them to refile our case for free. Since then we tried to call numerous times. But guess what. STILL NO PHONE CALL BACK from their office. Now we have to spend more money and hire a new lawyer. We never missed a payment with the court. We did everything right on our part besides hiring her. We were on track to buy a house this fall and that went right out the window and it will be another year or so before we will be able to start looking for a house. I am just completely shocked at how anyone could have such a horrible experience with a lawyer. I hope that no one else ever has to go through what we went through.

Amy handled my bankruptcy. At first she was very good. But then everything started slipping and taking forever. It took way longer then it should have to file. She informed me she had a crappy assistant that let everything fall through the cracks. She stated she replaced her office help. A year lat...er I used her for my divorce case. What a mistake this was. It took way way way to long for her to file my case. The judge would request certain things and she wouldn't contact me or inform me of any of this. I started calling the courts myself. She would not answer texts, phone calls, or emails. My case was 10 days from being dismissed. I stopped by her office and it was completely cleaned out. One of the neighboring businesses stated she's been out of there for months. It took me finding her on facebook and calling her out in front of her friends for her to contact me. It was a waste of time, money, and emotion. Once she had my $ everything changed and she just vanished. DO NOT Hire her.

We had two active cases with her for over a year, and now had to rehire new lawyers and redo everything she was suppose to do. One of our cases was a divorce case. It got dismissed in Aug. because she her office failed to file paper work, yet she did not tell us and let us go to the parenting classes... we were told we needed to attend. It was not until the first part of next year, when we called the court on our own, that we found out the case had been dismissed 6 months prior. When confronted about this, she acted surprised, as if she didn't know. She informed me that she would refund my filing fee because of her error, and that a check would be issued in "10 business days". I never saw the check, and she would never return my email. We filed several bankruptcies thru her office, each one of them getting dismissed because her office would not file paper work or comply with the Trustees requests. She if famous for never returning emails and has zero sense or urgency. We wasted a year of our life's with her office because we are now having to redo every legal action, and pay for it again, out of our own pocket due to, in my opinion, her gross negligence. When asked if she would compensate us for everything, she claimed that everything she did was "billable hours". The State Bar has been informed of her "billable hours" conduct and the United States Bankruptcy Trustee Office will be notified as well. along with News and media outlets and several other outlets. In my opinion, you should not waste your time or your money in dealing with this office.

We used her for our bankruptcy in 2011 and even though she was "okay" at first ever since the beginning you can not get a call back, email back or text back on some seriously important stuff. Its 2014 and our case is an open asset case and I still have questions and concerns. She is NOT responsive an...d does NOT communicate at all. She is very difficult to reach although not that popular according to reviews... Apparently she has better things to do then communicate with paying customers!!!!

Whatever you do go to a different attorney! She was great all the way up to paying her, which we did in full, in cash. I swear she puts you on a do not answer list because every time you would call with questions she would never answer, never return messages or texts. When it came down to seeing the ...trustee Amy's assistant failed to tell us what to bring (thank goodness we had it). We have a tax lien against our home now after "following" Amy's advice. WHATEVER YOU DO FIND A DIFFRENT ATTORNEY!!! About to turn her into the State Bar and the BBB.