Kristi D Favard

If I could give her negative stars I would. Kristi Favard is by a wide margin the most unprofessional attorney I have ever encountered. She told me mediations were required for my case by the Court, which she was then unable to cite and I could find no requirement for, while trying to convince me to ...pre-pay the mediation phase. She agreed on a course of action in my case to only later ask for 2X her original fee. She was over an hour late to our conference and got key details about the case wrong. In over 2 years she filed one amended complaint and propounded discovery, then went silent. It wasn't until I read defense's response that I learned they'd been trying to get a hold of Kristi to schedule depositions but she never responded. She badgered me to pay $6,000 for the dispositive motion phase to "file or defend any dispositive motion", no motion was ever filed and she claims she can keep the entire $6k. She abandoned me before the end of my case for asking about a refund and I had to represent myself to finish it out. She is extremely unprofessional in her communications. She also tried to get me to sign a liability waiver and non-disclosure agreement (she didn't want me writing reviews) without asking me to seek independent counsel. From the other reviews it sounds like she's done this to many people. If she got you to sign a liability waiver without telling you to seek independent counsel, you can make a report to the Washington State Bar Association, anything you submit to the BAR is protected. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere for your legal representation. I really wish I had. Read other reviews, her actions demonstrate a pattern of misconduct the public must be made aware of. DO NOT GIVE THIS ATTORNEY ANY OF YOUR MONEY!!

I hired her last year to represent me in a dispute with my employer. She took $7,500 and sent one email - ONE EMAIL! - to the company! After that she just vanished. Her paralegals (who kept changing) kept stringing me along, in the end after 5 months of being jerked by her I went to another lawyer wh...o settled my matter within two weeks to my absolute satisfaction. She took advantage of me at my most vulnerable moment - $7,500 is a lot of money for one email! - while the other lawyer, who resolved my matter, cost me less than $1,000 total. The scary part is that, apparently, as I know from other people who dealt with her, she goes after those who complain: she sends them creepy legal-looking letters to scaring them. She also actually goes up looking into person's records on the Internet, looks up all your public information and then publishes on those people's Facebook, or LinkedIn or whatnot. Who does that? What normal person spends time and effort to "burn" the very people she mistreated??? Thus my post is going to be anonymous. This person scares me. Stay away from her.

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.