Mark came highly recommended to me as a family divorce attorney, by collaborative and litigation attorneys, financial analysts, as well as mental health professionals. To represent me, I needed someone sharp, with strong business/financial knowledge as well as strong interpersonal skills in addition... to excellent legal expertise. Mark has it all. He also has a strong network of highly skilled professionals who can step in if needed in a very timely manner. Despite the complexity of our case, we finished within 6 months. I got a good and fair settlement, my financial situation is secured not only for the next few years but also for the long term. Our kids’s future is secured. My personal well being was also always his concern and he would go to great length to secure my well being through the process. Mark came highly recommended to me, and I am honored to be able to highly recommend him as your divorce attorney.

My ex and I hired J. Mark Weiss to serve as part of a 4 person team (2 lawyers, 1 counselor/divorce coach, 1 finance expert) to help through a "collaborative" divorce process. I highly recommend the process, especially for a couple with small kids who will need to work together for many years to c...o-parent their kids. Having said that, I strongly recommend that anyone wishing to have a successful collaborative divorce stay very far away from Mark Weiss. He is the opposite of what a successful collaborative attorney should be -- he is argumentative, divisive, difficult to schedule, and, I believe, unethical. It was only after he and my ex terminated him that we were able to successfully conclude our divorce. Even then he behaved unethically, trying to get the other collaborative attorney to quit so that he could say that the collaborative process had failed and not have our success reflect poorly on him. Instead, she stuck with it, we hired a 2nd collaborative attorney, and we successfully finished the divorce while avoiding litigation. I have worked with many lawyer over the past 20+ years -- many that I hired, some that were hired by the other side in a business deal. I have never had a worse experience with an attorney than the experience I had with Mark. I happen to know for a fact that several of the professionals who worked with Mark on our case feel the same way, and more than 1 has told me that he/she will never work with Mark again. I don't know if something snapped with Mark (I have heard that he used to be better) but I'm writing this note as a public service to others to avoid what my ex and I had to go through.

After researching the differences between mediation and collaborative divorce, my ex-wife and I decided that collaborative divorce was the best fit for us. Mark represented me and my ex used different counsel. Together, Mark and the other attorney met with us to make sure it was a good fit before w...e got started. Overall, the process took a little longer than I had expected, but it was well worth it. What I will remember the most about the experience was Mark's caution to not strike a deal that will feel corrosive in the future. In other words, it's not always about the dollars and cents on a particular day, but the big picture of how everyone is going to feel for years to come. This is especially crucial when kids are involved. Although I am an attorney myself, I hired Mark because I knew it would be foolhardy to pretend to have expertise outside my area of practice. Mark helped me asnswer questions that I didn't even know to ask.