Stacey G Schmidt

Stacey took care of some family law matters. Her work was generally careless and inattentive. Here are some specific examples. I called about an email I'd forwarded that needed some immediate action. She said she'd read it but was clearly doing something else during our conversation and was not ma...king sense as I tried to find out what needed to be done. After about 15 minutes, she suddenly woke up and said "I just read it. We need to do something." This was frighteningly typical - billing but not paying attention. There was a new paralegal every few months. Documents were submitted in my name and in first person, but without any input from me and with embarrassingly incorrect facts and obvious, ridiculous, and sometimes seriously detrimental mistakes. One document had me swearing my name was some totally different person. "Oh, we fixed that," Stacey repeatedly said, but she hadn't. These documents are in the court record. They asked me to fax a signature page before I had even seen one document because they "were in a hurry." They were usually in hurry, and I got repeated calls from Stacey's latest paralegal trying frantically to throw together a statement left until the last minute. This was reflected in the sloppiness of the documents. I don't normally write reviews like this and I don't like to be critical, but Stacey's poor performance created a lot of problems and additional stress. Once I had had some experience with another lawyer, I realized how sloppy and ineffectual Stacey had been, and I'd like to prevent anyone else from having an experience like I had.