Melina Shalysse Benninghoff

Ms. Benninghoff was appointed to represent my grandson who is presently incarcerated in Corcoran on a in-custody offense of conspiring to receive controlled substances in prison and an additional possession of an inmate manufactured weapon that was previously dropped by the institution. She has fail...ed to communicate with her client and was recently informed that she was being fired by her client, after which she responded. My grandson's mother as well as myself have reached out to her office with no response. Would not recommend this lawyer. Dr. Guy Washington, Forensic Psychologist

I hired her for divorce and custody, she did nothing, she wont keep apts. getting her to return call in emergency for get it. I was being put threw hell and she did nothing. She actually ended my with me losing 16,000. She was never prepared for court, always late, would meet with her clients at star...bucks! No folks not kidding when I let her go she said good as she didn't have the time for my case in the first place!! well then don't take someone's money and then do nothing!!!! I am turning her in to bar assoc., with proof of my claim...

she told me she can help me out with my case. I had to keep calling and texting her to find out what was going on. She wouldn't get back to me till a week later. I had to tell her I was going to contact the DA's office, right away she returned my call saying for me to put myself on calendar and the j...udge would appoint her out to my case and from there we can move forward. The next day she called and told me she couldn't help me out to find someone else. I told her if she would have told me sooner I would have did the work on my own from the start, I thanked her for wasting a month of time. All I know she is RUDE, LAZY & ALWAYS LATE FOR COURT. I don't recommend her AT ALL.. I know if she reads this she'll know who I am right off the back lol

I would not recommend her nor will I ever use her services again. She promoted herself shamelessly throughout the fleeting visit instead of taking the time to find out more about the case from me. She neither proposed nor was interested in a strategy, and never explained the evidence the DA had. She ...was so busy that she showed up rarely in court. Melina never responded to my mail to here requesting discovery information, or any of my attempts to contact her.She didn't even answer my requests for renegotiating bail. She was far from collaborative and in no way took my wishes into consideration.