Melissa Danyale Polk

DO NOT HIRE MELISSA POLK! She is an extremely dishonest person who doesn't know how to do her job. She frequently makes mistakes and instead of accepting responsibility to fix them, blames everyone else except herself - the judge, her paralegal, and worst of all, her own clients. It's unbelievable sh...e is still able to practice law. As is apparent in the reviews, she has harmed many people, ruined their cases, abandoned them at critical moments, and still refuses to admit any fault. My favorite is that she claims on some negative reviews that her clients "were happy with her work". So why would someone write a negative review who was happy with her work? Absolutely disgusting. She cares only about billing her clients high rates for terrible work, with zero empathy or consideration for the outcome.

Worst attorney ever! Melissa lied to my face. You cannot trust a word she says. She obviously doesn't know the law because I found out later that much of the "advice" she gave me was completely wrong! Why tell a client something as fact when you don't know what you are talking about??? She didn't hel...p me with my case and in fact, made it far worse. Her bills contained many errors, including billing me for discussing the mistakes she made which she never fixed. Rude, unknowledgeable, and a complete waste of money. I wish I had never, ever hired her. Don't make the same mistake I did!

Absolutely horrible attorney. I have worked with many lawyers in my life. Melissa is by far and away the worst. Not only is Melissa completely incompetent but she is also dishonest. 1) she repeatedly provided factually incorrect "advice" contrary to the law. 2) she was unaware of and uninformed a...bout basic aspects of family law that any practicing attorney should know (or anyone who is capable of doing a simple Internet search). This got so bad that judges had to correct her multiple times in court. 3) she made basic math errors in calculating my settlement, left off significant claims I was clearly entitled to, and forgot to include key aspects of the settlement we had discussed many times. 4) her negotiating skills could be generously described as inept. Her general strategy was to give away all of my claims and require nothing of the opposing party. 5) when made aware of her mistakes, instead of acknowledging the errors and attempting to correct them, she lied about what she said even when it was clearly documented in writing. 6) she billed me for work she did not perform, work I specifically did not ask her to do, work to correct her many errors, and in one case double billed me for the same court appearance. When I brought the billing errors to her attention, she refused to respond.