Valerie Ross

I contacted Valerie Ross because I heard she specialized in juvenile cases. During our over the phone consultation she sounded like she really knew her stuff. Looking back in hindsight I was really desperate and in major need of some legal representation for my loved one. She had great communicati...on, kept in touch, was always available and overall seemed like a great pick. After my family and I paid her the retainer fee she turned into a completely different individual. Her work was lack luster and amateur to say the least. She completely stopped communicating with my family and we never knew what was going on half the time. We always had to call her just to get updates on our situation and she wouldn't answer the phone half the time and when she did she was rude and vague. One of our family members whom we had hired to be represented by her was sitting in jail behind this charge and she barely made any visits or had any contact with them. We were extremely disappointed because we had paid her over $2,000 dollars and she never did a good job. In court she filed an OR motion for my family member and got completely ate up by the D.A. She was tongue tied, her defense was weak, and she was submissive and extremely passive. Of course the OR motion was denied not once, BUT TWICE by 2 different judges. She was ill prepared and disconnected from the case. She was not on her A-game. I started to feel like my family and I had been duped because we clearly couldn't see what we had paid her for because she didn't do jack or get anything accomplished. I honestly would never work with this woman ever again, I know public defenders who are way better than her and she has the audacity to charge thousands of dollars when she isn't worth 2 pennies. We'll never get the money back that we gave her in confidence but that's the risk you take when hiring a lawyer, so if I can stop someone from getting scammed and milked for their hard earned money then it was all worth it. Valerie Ross is a rip off and is more concerned with securing a retainer fee then actually representing her clients because as soon as my family paid her she stopped doing her job.