Paula Diane Kleinman

Paula Kleinman has aided and guided me through various family law issues, filing new motions, and advocating in court on my behalf. She has been attentive to my questions, prompt to response and accessible via phone, text and email. Extremely knowledgeable and organized. Her staff are a pleasure to i...nteract with. I recommend giving Paula Kleinman the opportunity to look over your case and trust she will represent you to the best of her abilities as she has demonstrated first hand in my case.

Everything was at stake when I called Paula Kleinman. At first I tried to defend myself. It seemed to me like an open and shut case. The opposing party admitted in court to having no evidence other than their testimony. Unfortunately under our legal system their testimony was enough for the judge to... drag the case out in multiple hearings over four months! I felt extremely frustrated, resentful, anxious and like I had absolutely no voice in the process that was consuming my life. At my wits end, I picked up the telephone and contacted Paula. When she began representing me she was at a disadvantage because I had already tried to represent myself (rather poorly) over multiple hearings. But she grasped the details quickly. She represented me at the final hearing and won the case without me saying a word. During the hearing the judge actually stated to me that I had "an excellent attorney". It was at that moment I began to feel confident for the first time in months. We won the case that day. This experience taught me a valuable lesson. I learned that, when it comes to legal matters, it's not enough to have the truth on your side. Unless you are an expert in the law, the truth may never even be heard in court because judges are unpredictable and witnesses can be vengeful, untruthful or even suffering from mental health issues which are not considered by the court. Without Paula I believe there would have been a terrible miscarriage of justice.

Paula helped me get all the right documents I needed to get a divorce and get full custody of my child. She appeared at court and handled the situation very well and was prepared and organized. If I didn't understand something she would step by step explain it to me. Paula kept me informed so I never... had to worry. At the end of it all I got my divorce and I got full custody of my child.

I hired Paula Kleinman to help me get unsupervised visits with my children after they were requested by my child’s mother due to a brain injury. At the initial meeting with Paula, she made me feel like she would be able to get me unsupervised visitation until she received the $3500 retainer fee and t...hats when her whole approach and effort changed. At my court hearing, she asked to sit and have a meeting with my sons mother that lasted over 2 hours at $300 a hour. During the meeting, there weren’t any points made by Paula, she was basically an expensive spectator or interpreter. When the meeting was completed she was not able to get me 1 thing I requested of her. I was ordered to have supervised visits at $40 a hour. When I fired Paula I Called and emailed multiple times to receive any remaining funds so I could hire a helpful lawyer, I WAS CHARGED TO FIRE WHICH WAS BILLED AS “Drafted email to client and substitution of attorney” for .2 of a hour $60. When I let her know that I would no longer be needing her services and to send me a substitution of attorney form, there apparently was another determined father that was also firing her that same day as Paula being the genius she is, sent me his substitution of attorney form. So I called no more than twice a day to get her to send the correct form and to receive my refund. I had no idea my refund was dwindling while I was contacting her to receive it. Upon asking Paula Kleinman what she did for me, this was her exact response “Please review the custody order wherein I negotiated you to have no supervised visits and mother to pay one-half of day. Please review the DCSS wherein the one-half payment of the professional supervision will take be applied.” It states she negotiated for me to have no supervised visits and for mother to pay “one-half of day”, now IF no supervised visits were granted then what is mother to pay half of? Mother made the offer to take half of the paid supervisor out of her already over $2000 a month child support. NOT Paula. At the end of everything, Paula was no help to me whatsoever, if anything she hurt me because she couldn’t speak to my child’s mother with respect.

Wonderful attorney, office stuff and legal assistance friendly and helpful. I found Ms Kleinman in challenging times in my life, sudden divorce. Ms Kleinman looked personally into all details of my case and took all needed steps to advocate and stand for my rights. I really appreciate her professio...nal approach and recommend her as she is a great attorney!