Klaus Otto Snyder

Klaus Snyder is an excellent lawyer and very knowledgeable in the contribution trades. I run a small painting business and we had a very difficult situation take place where an employee fell off a ladder and broke a sliding glass door. Turns out through a series of unfortunate events our business i...nsurance has lapsed which was mainly the fault of mine. The customers we worked for became extremely hostile and hired an attorney and sued my company vs allowing us to amicably fix any issues free of charge to them. Klaus took on the case even though he’s obviously a busy guy and handles a lot of cases and was extremely professional and helped me through the whole process from start to finish. I was lucky to have representation as this was a case that other lawyers had shied away from based on my financial situation but Klaus went to bat for me and we worked together and mounted a good defense of my company and the results were far better than what would have resulted from no representation obviously. Klaus is very straight up and will tell you how it is and that’s a good quality as it helped me stay focused through a very difficult time for me and my family. I appreciate the excellent work!

He was the lawyer my parents hired to write up their Will and Trust because it was a pretty complex estate with some very specific instructions on the dividing of assets to certain family members. My parents died a few years ago, and and he did not finish the Will and Trust to their wishes. I was ...named executor because my three older brothers were too incompetent to handle the matters on their own. For four years now, there's been so many things that he gave me bad advice on, and all of it has fallen on my shoulders. My house was in my parents' name and it was supposed to be transferred into my name at their deaths; but Klaus neglected to include that into the Will and Trust. Now I'm going to lose it. Usually he would insist that we meet up for face to face meetings at $350 an hour. I asked multiple times if I could record our conversations to ensure that I was really clear on what's being said, and he always would refuse. On top of it all, I was so overwhelmed with everything and he really took advantage of that. Most of our correspondence would be either face-to-face, or over the phone. He would bully and threaten me anytime I questioned him about whether or not something was correct. There were also many times when he would talk and talk for hours and charge the estate thousands of dollars, and I would still walk out of there with the same questions as when I contacted him. Not to mention the huge breach in trust because he sells vitamins on the side with one of those multilevel marketing programs and would hawk them to me. When I stopped buying them from him, he became more and more hostile towards me.

I hired Klaus to redo the Road Maintenance Agreement on our 5 acre parcel which our home is on. Klaus was requested to basically incorporate the two new lots from the short plat into the RMA giving my home easement crossing over the two new lots we created in the short plat. I had the legal descrip...tions from the Surveyor and only needed them to be added into the RMA. A cost and timeframe was given to me after the consultation meeting, but after 3 months I had nothing, phone calls ignored and I was put on "ignore". His lack of timeliness held up my short plot approval with the City and I ended up retrieving my documents from his law firm and typed them all myself but of course I got a bill from Snyder of $600 plus for nothing.