Yolanda Simmons Bachtell

I know this will be a little long, but this is important…. We used Ms. Bachtell for my husband divorce we had trust in her. That is now totally gone. Long story short…4.5 years ago we were in a pretty bad accident. Fortunately, everyone was not injured seriously. With that said…. Ms. Bachtell IS NOT ...AN INJURY LAWYER note to self. We called to get advice only. She said she could handle it….well she did kinda NOT. There are things we did not know. Subrogation, the fact that we were not hurt bad was only a “soft tissue” injury. Blah blah blah….turns out if we had been told these two things it probably wouldn’t have taken 4.5 years and a mediator to settle it. OH and after that it literally took 6 months for her to finally settle it. The worse part she would have one excuse after another why she wasn’t on our case, out of state, at Lowes for a pipe that broke etc. etc. I am so angry it’s not funny. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE HER BUSINESS. Lawyers work on referrals. She is not a professional lawyer

Ms. Bachtell will take your money and provide a lot of excuses for why she hasn't done anything, but that's all she'll do. Something simple like returning calls or responding to emails/texts is asking way too much from Ms. Bachtell. It's been over 2 1/2 years since I started the divorce process - ...it's just been a huge waste of time and money.

I don't even know where to begin... she ended up messing up so horribly.. I am now a single mom in $25K worth of debt because I had to hire a new attorney to fix things and keep me out of jail. she lied, ignored emails and phone calls and talked with opposing counsel about my case after I fired her! ...RUN!!

Worst lawyer I've ever dealt with. Messed up the divorce paperworks so bad I ended up doing it myself. Judgement was rejected by the courts due to procedural errors. Took her a month to finally look at it again...no responses to numerous emails and phone calls. Promised phone appointments by her ...office staff that were not kept. When she finally gets it done....it's rejected by the courts AGAIN. All due to legal/procedural errors that a Family Law attorney should know about.

This attorney was ineffectual. Charged for services at attorney rates when the tasks could have been completed by a clerk or paralegal. Did not respond to phone calls or emails (was always too busy with her personal affairs). Did NOT represent my best interest. It was like she was in support of m...y ex's attorney, and she did not try to resolve the issues. Dragged the case on for way longer than needed and then she never finished the job that I paid for. She moved her office two hours away and then complained that she had to drive back to go to court. Yolanda just wanted to add more billable hours to her invoice, and she does not CARE about you or doing a good job for you. I paid her a total of $50,000 and lost just about everything because of her lack of representation. When I questioned her she became hostile and wanted to withdraw in the middle of the case. Please do not hire her...she will just take your money and not look out for getting you the best settlement.