Richard K. Isles

Richard; I would just like to take this time to thank you, and your team, for such an outstanding job. You went out of your way to keep my daughter informed of the process, and her rights, reguarding her case. Thank you for being there in our time of need. You are highly recommended and I would re...commend you to anyone needing professional legal family council Sammy

Much like one of the other reviews here, I was assured that my divorce was "cookie cutter" and would quite definitely be handled within the original $3000 retainer which he requested. The retainer was exhausted before we even got to the first court hearing, at which time he requested another $2000. W...e got to court, and I expressed my concerns - Richard cut me off, and repeated that he had a good law firm, and that they were well worth the money. Overall nothing was agreed upon at that hearing. That appearance, by the way, was the only time that Richard himself ever bothered to come to court. I hired him as my attorney, but he sent two different attorneys to the other 3 court appearances and didn't bother to come himself. This is not what he promises on his website. Eventually (around 7 months later, and another $5000 or so later), my ex and I arrived at an agreement independently of his work. He congratulated me on this, then turned around and said he needed another $2000 to complete the work in order to prepare and file the documents with the court. After I said that I could not afford it, he sent me a letter saying that either I could sign a Substitution of Attorney to have him removed, or he was going to file with the court to have himself removed as my attorney of record. He further stated that if I didn't remove him as my attorney of record, he was raising his rates from $200 / hour to $350 / hour "per the retainer agreement". Overall, Richard left me strongly with the impression that his only interest was in gathering more money from his clients. He gave virtually no advice whatsoever - any advice that came out of his office came from his paralegals, not from him. He failed to represent me in court at all, and sent inexperienced and non-aggressive attorneys in his place when the court dates arrived. Richard gave the impression that he deliberately burned through any money that came his way as quickly as his could, in order to ask for more. Overall I put about $10,000 into his firm, and got almost nothing for it except a few filings, which could equally well have been prepared by paralegals. Maybe I should have just given my ex $5000 instead. Seems more productive! If you have any choice at all, please do not retain this attorney. It's a free consultation and a low initial rate, but you get what you pay for.