Matthew Swain Webbeking

Highly disappointed with Mathew at Lawgena. Absolutely DO NOT recommend him! His good reviews must be fake or paid for. The staff is unprofessional and he has a high turnover of young women. He couldn’t get my name right, doesn’t use text reminders and as soon as he got the deposit he didn’t care abo...ut my case. I’d wait for days for him to reply to an email or voicemail. Mathew choked in court when the judge asked him a question, basically let my x get everything they asked for. He never even followed up with me afterwards.

I previously had left a review for Matthew as we hired him for a child custody case. We were very happy with the results that we had so far, but were still going to need his representation at the final trial. I felt VERY pressured to leave reviews from his legal assistant Sara. And when I say very ...pressured; I mean several emails back and forth to leave reviews on at least 3 websites for Matthew. I get it; they want to earn more business. Since we were still working with him and we had no issues thus far; I obliged and left reviews on all of the sites after repeatedly being requested at least 5 or 6 times which included phone calls to my significant other to leave reviews as well. Immediately after we left all the reviews (within two days or so) we were notified from the legal assistant that they wanted to pull out of our case. Which was fine as he mentioned that he would be able to help us if we needed to hire him for the final trial date. I told him that it was going to most likely be a possibility. A few weeks later I email them to discuss and talk about pricing for representation in the final trial and the response was "we are slammed with cases and aren't taking any new ones; good luck." Now if that isn't a "screw you" email I don't know what is. Just be aware of the following before you hire: declarations taken from the legal assistant should be proof read and rewritten if possible by someone proficient in the English language. Mine was written with very bad grammar and it didn't represent the way I articulate myself -you can tell a non-native English speaker didn't write it, but I was pressured to sign it within the next 10 minutes of it being sent to me because it was needed immediately so I signed it. In addition, I didn't want to offend Sara on the poor grammar because I would have had to rewrite it for it to sound like it was written by a mature adult. The legal assistances first languages are not English and their grammar is not up to par with what a legal assistant should have; especially if they are going to be writing up official documents. The legal assistances customer service skills however are great; it just really is a bummer that a repeat client was treated this way- not a great way to attract and retain future business- keep this in mind.