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Posted by anonymous | January 07, 2016 | Hired Attorney

DONT DO IT!!!!!

Worst experience ever. I recommend hiring yourself before Gina Costello. Went through a jurisdiction case with my daughters mother. Gina claims to be this massive threat to the apposing party, when it came down to it she wasn't clearly on my side. letting me know I had court 1 hour before I was suppo...sed to be there. No communication between her and her employees. Or to the client. Tells you what you wanna hear to get you on board then treats you as if the opposing party has 2 lawyers and your dead in the water. I have my faults don't get me wrong. But you hire a lawyer to defend you. Not get into court and talk you into agreeing to the opposing party. She flies off the handle in an instance, then turns around and acts like your best friend. Documents I still haven't seen but hear about all the time. The judge set in place orders for my daughters mother and I to agree on time and pick up location during the holidays. Soon as my back was turned she allowed my mother and her lawyer to decide those times then herself and the judge signed off on it. When confronted her response was "to be honest I didn't see that" haha really!? I wouldn't even recommend my daughters mother to use Gina Costello! If you sign on with her, be prepared to get things handed to you.

Posted by julievoitlein | April 12, 2015

Thank You Gina!

Thank you for giving me the best possible care as a lawyer you could. I appreciate your expert advice. I wanted the impossible done at times and you graciously knew how to handle me. I am sorry that I upset you at times. I don't know the law as well as you and like I said wanted the impossible done a...t times. I highly, highly recommend you. Thank you for helping me get through treatment at Adept Intensive Outpatient. I graduated April 6, 2015 from treatment and am now going to Frontier Behavioral Health. I used to think I was too good for all the help. Now I wish I would have done it sooner. Spokane needs your experience and expertise. Thank you for representing the law so well. There are certain things I will NEVER look back on, or do. I learned lots of valuable lessons. Thank you for being gracious.

Posted by anonymous | March 25, 2015

Office staff and legal assistant

Awful experience with These people. At the beginning they said one thing and the next thing I know my retainer was gone on research about how to get my parenting plan switch to Washington. Something they said they could do quickly and inexpensively. They would not have timely responses. I would have... to leave message after message and email before eventually I would hear something. This turned out to be almost a year long process!!! They even sent me other peoples paperwork twice.!! To which they called right back and ask me to shred it!

Posted by Jody | February 15, 2015

Gina Costello saved my life.

I had two cases at the same time. One divorce and one criminal case. I was married to a difficult man at whose hands I suffered emotional and physical abuse for years. My husband had an affair with my (ex) best criend and had me arrested claiming assault and was intent on the worst punishment I could... get. Gina took both of my cases and worked on them in unison for until the final resolution. At a dark period in my life, she encouraged me and talked me "off the ledge" many times. She encouraged me to get domestic violence counseling and truly cared about my emotional well-being. It saved my life. When I went to court on the criminal charge, both the prosecutor and the judge told me what an awesome job my attorney did for me. It was a better outcome than I could have imagined. I signed my divorce papers today and again, the outcome was in my favor and nothing short of a miracle. I will always consider Gina my angel. Its a rare find in the legal business. Thank you, Gina, for working tirelessly on my behalf. You truly saved my life and I will be forever grateful.

Posted by Rachel | November 12, 2014

Save your money!!

This is by far the worst experience I have had in dealing with a lawyer, someone with whom I have paid to work for me!! She is the worst person with communicating along with many other things. There were times when the opposing party knew about papers that I supposedly submitted before I even did. He...r paralegal even told me that they can sign per my behalf even when I don't agree with what they had written up. Multiple times I was given misinformation. I would have been much better off representing myself. I have paid/owe this woman close to $6000 for filing paperwork. The worst decision of my life!!!!!!!

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