Kristi D Favard

I hired Ms. Favard to handle an unemployment case for me. She took payment and never met me. I was forced to work through her assistant who was very unhelpful. They scheduled a hearing with a judge and then disconnected their email and website. I cannot reach them and have been left to attend the he...aring without the representation I paid for. Do not hire this attorney as she is derelict.

I came to sapphire legal attorney Kristi Favard during a time of need and vulnerability. My employer was treating me in a manner inconsistent with a company employee agreement and was operating in violation of federal, state, and municipal regulations. Miss Favard seemed understanding and empathetic... during my initial $750 consultation. She convinced me that for a bulk rate of $7500 she would represent me through letter writing and negotiating of my case against my employer. As my situation with my employer further deteriorated I at least thought that Miss Favard was working to back me up. She wasn't. She had initially stated that she would send a demand letter to my employer within weeks of taking my case. This never happened. She instead left me hanging out in the wind. Phone calls to her office were met with rude responses (Alexandria) or not answered at all. Pivotal emails sent to Sapphire legal and Miss Favard went unanswered and thus further put my employment in jeopardy. Miss Favard's staff eventually (5 months on) put together a demand letter for me to review. This letter was so out of touch with reality as to be laughable. When confronted with the notion that the demand letter lacked factual basis and was inconsistent with what I had been presenting as testimony office staff (Alexandria)became offended. Attempts were made by Miss Favard's office to shift blame to myself for their own lack of action. I was eventually unjustly terminated from my job and needed legal assistance more than ever. Ironically Miss Favard's showed a renewed interest in my situation once I had beenn fired. Because Miss Favard had delayed action on my case for so long I felt as if I was now stuck with dealing with her in lieu of searching for a new attorney. For her part Miss Favard was able to convince me once again that she could help me resolve my issue this time through a law suit. I was suckered in to paying her firm another $7500 to file a law suit with a promise of a $2500 refund from my original agreement with her office. 4 months on from my termination neither of those things have happened. Upon her failure to act as my attorney I utilized the BBB in attempt to make contact with her. Sapphire legal and Miss Favard failed to respond to the BBBs request for information. I have now reached out to the Attorney General of the state of Washington and will be filing a complaint with the Washington state bar association. Miss Favard is now in possession of $15,750 of my hard earned money and has never sent a single page of correspondence to my now former employer in representation of myself. I believe that if she would have stood by the terms of our mutual agreement that I would still be employed and my family would not be suffering. I only hope that it is not too late for me to find sound, professional, courteous representation to work out my employment issues. As for the 5 star reviews given here for her service I am highly dubious of there origin. Please look at google and yelp reviews to confirm what I suspect. As of this writing it appears that the Sapphire-legal website has been taken down. So shady! Kristi Favard is not an attorney that you want to hire and please do not waste your money on a consultation either.

WARNING Do not expect being informed or any type of responsiveness regarding your case. I have had a case open for two years and have yet to receive a single correspondence that Kristi had done within my case. I also had the misfortune of paying her upfront. Save yourself pain and aggravati...on and do not hire her or her firm. Alexandra the paralegal in charge of my case couldn’t even remember the company I work for. When I did call she would recite a 15 minute narrative and often include the wrong companies name to me. Red Flag

I was very wary to hire a lawyer on a pre-paid basis to process my appeal and rep me at the hearing but I'm so very glad that I hired Sapphire Legal! Throughout the process my paralegal Alex was flawless in communicating and keeping up on my case. I doubted them at times though as it was hard for me... to understand why I didn't get to actually speak my lawyer, Ms. Favard until right before the hearing. But they assured me this was how it goes. They were right. Ms. Favard prepared me for the hearing flawlessly and without her assistance I don't know what I would have done. Totally recommend! Very professional and know their stuff for sure :-)