Allison S. Novik

I hired her as a family lawyer to get me child support from a completed Dissomaster that was completed by my previous attorney (in over a year she never got me anything nor was anything filed in court), she was to help with a breech of fiduciary responsibility (which is why I overturned a free hybrid... judgment, never did anything), show the court the perceived neglect of my children from my ex (from many pictures and testimonial from people) never requested a court date, the divorce itself as I requested a trial and trial setting conference. She claimed she was super busy so I emailed her that she should put it on a date she could attend but, she booked it on dates she could not be there, she burned up my retainer, $3,000.00 and I supposedly owe her more for literally NOTHING COMPLETED. She filed a motion to be relieved after I went to court to find it had been taken off the calendar without notifying me. Now, I have two upcoming court dates with no family lawyer to represent me and a mediation conference. She worked with my Civil lawyer who said she was incompetent or surely extremely lazy. She seems to be in law to make money and not represent the clients with their best interest a heart. Many times I felt she was asking me for advice or to make decision that a well-versed lawyer should be advising me on. We met initially in an office that was not her own, she never wanted to talk or meet face to iron out our plans or streamline the process for me. Ultimately she made excuses for failures and gaslighted me as if I were a lawyer ( would never step by step walk me through a process to complete anything and she would not complete anything). If you are treated like me she will take your ($5,000) money and charge you to make requests or send emails that she won't fulfill or complete while your conversations and email cost you, and she will make sure your retainer is vanishing talking to opposing counsel while accomplishing nothing. Instead of working harder or smarter, her true nature will come out and she will quit instead of doing what you paid her for. She also predicted Judge Silberman's responses or what she thought he would do to make excuses for why she couldn't or wouldn't do her job.

Allison is an honest, practical, and compassionate attorney. In all my dealings with her, I found her to be a breath of fresh air in a field of law that is unfortunately known to many as being filled with money-hungry selfish jerks. She is a trustworthy person, and I have and will continue to reco...mmend her to those in need during what is often the most challenging time in their lives or prepare them for marriage with a pre-nuptial agreement.

I won’t go into details as I know they can not be disclosed due to client-attorney confidentiality but this attorneys representation was beyond poor and failed to even come close to exceeding any slight expectation. I retained her for about the going rate of most attorneys that would take on my case ...only to be over charged for her services, if that’s what you want to call them. I felt as if she was working for the opposing council as all of my request were shutdown by her before even consulting with the other party. Let me make this clear, not one of my requests were unreasonable. I was blindsided in court when it came to terms I was agreeing upon due to her lack of explanation and had to set aside the agreement to address these issues with another attorney. To make a long story short I discontinued her representation and retained a new attorney and all it took was one trip to court to get most of everything I was asking for with one hearing remaining. I can not even express how displeased I am with her services. You want to go into the courtroom knowing you have someone by your side that will fight for you and not once did I have this feeling with her. After switch attorneys I learned that this law firm has a very poor reputation among the legal community. My new attorney was substantially able to achieve more in 2 weeks then what Mrs. Novik was able to achieve in 4 months.

Trying to charge over $7200 yes over $7200 For going to court 1 time and asking an extension 1 time and got nothing done in court!!! Just threw money away. She was my family lawyer for 1 month and when I got the first invoice after a fail in court with such a high amount owed, I immediately discontin...ued services. I wish I never hired her. This whole situation gave me so much stress.