Ray S Pollari

Hiring Ray was a huge mistake. I was desperate and many other family law/divorce lawyers were unable to work within my time frame, I thought my prayer had been answered when he agreed to take my case and was so disappointed. First, I confided in him regarding abuse issues involving me and my young... children. He gaslit me into believing I was being dramatic and no one would care. Then the night before zoom mediation he said he was too sick and would not be online to support me. A colleague stepped in and after reading the file was immediately shocked that my very real abuse concerns were neglected, in hindsight it seemed he didn't want to put any actual effort into my case. Infact he told the mediator that he felt my needs were neglected by Ray and that he was concerned about how the case was handles this far. After about 5 hours of mediation Ray logged on and took over for his colleague. At this time he asked me to type my own legal documents because of tech issues and went back to disregarding my concerns. Now I have a trash parenting plan because the exact issues I brought up have happened and they were not addressed because Ray told me it was too specific and unneeded. Also, there are many typos that were not caught that have caused problems, the terms were not write as agreed upon. Plus, I got charged for him to call me and tell me I was without a lawyer the night before mediation (730 pm), I got charged for him to sit in mediation and participate little to not at all, and got charged for months after the whole ordeal was over for services I didn't receive. When I finally got tired of paying for services I wasn't receiving and asked for a receipt and breakdown of work completed I was told "oh nevermind don't worry about it we will just write it off" leading me to believe I was being wrongfully billed to begin with. I asked many times and never saw what I was billed for the last few times I paid. I felt as if I was lured into a scam that cost me tens of thousands of dollars.

Terrible experience- never did what he said he was going to do. Always seemed to make mistakes in favor of my ex very crucial mistakes. Never addressed issues like CS correctly even when I had $0 income and ex had all of our income and was receiving it under false pretense to which Ray was aware. ...Never felt that anything that I said was of importance often leaving out viable facts pertaining to issues with my case. Was not doing what I asked of him as far as settlement offers. Took him three months to finally put something together to send over on a counter offer after I had been asking for three months and wanting to avoid a trial all together if possible. In court would not remember crucial information with me correcting him on many of them. Spent almost a year with him and got nothing accomplished other than him taking my money and time. Terrible experience all together. Tells you what he thinks you want to hear at the time you are consulting with him but does not follow thru on any of it. He messed up and didn't follow thru with setting up a trial date so when I termed him and hired another lawyer my case was delayed by another 5 months. Thanks to his many many mistakes I am now on my 3rd attorney and two and half years later still have not had a settlement or trial.