Elena Luisa Garella

A colleague referred Elena Garella based on very high praise for work she had done in the past. I had a difficult time getting a hold of her at the onset of COVID, but she gave me amazing advice and asked that as I moved forward in my legal issues to email her relevant docs which I did. She never got... back to me. I’ve called her several times over the course of months and still nothing. It would have been great if she just told me she didn’t want to help me or if she could have referred me elsewhere. Extremely unprofessional.

I hired Elena to help recover on a slander / breach of privacy cause of action. Allegedly, she sent out the demand for my case, but I am not sure where to because the defendant corporation later told me that they never received it. And Elena never bothered to follow up to make sure they received it. ...Later, when defendant did not respond to the demand, Elena told me that I have the option of suing in a small claims court. I brought a case is small claims, but the judge told me that defamation cases are not allowed in small claim court, and dismissed my case. I would think that a competent attorney would know proper venue criteria. Finally, Elena was really difficult to get a hold of throughout. I think she is incompetent as an attorney.

Elena took on our extremely complicated case that involved years of litigation and entanglement. We had all but lost faith in the judicial system after hiring several incompetent attorneys that left us in a bad place. Thankfully, Elena was able to untangle the mistakes of our messy lawsuit and we are... on the road to moving on. She is honest and very highly recommended.