Richard Bryan Geissler

I hired Mr. Geissler about 20 years ago after hiring multiple unprincipled Spokane attorneys previously; in a four year nightmare, I lost every hearing to include the week long trial. Geissler is poor at developing overall strategy and writing compelling legal arguments even when the facts and the ...law are overwhelmingly in his client's favor. To be fair, Geissler is adequate tactically; however, without a guiding strategy the "little wins" are meaningless. Also to be fair, the court was highly prejudiced against me. There is no doubt that Geissler is primarily money driven, but I've never met an attorney that wasn't. I will also point out that no attorney is going to do what is right if it is going to adversely affect their future relationships with the judges that they have to work in front of everyday; their livelihood is more important than their character and integrity or your children. Overall, I think that Geissler's ineffectiveness is because of his average intellectual prowess more than any other factor. I give him a poor rating because when you're kids are at stake there are no excuses. p.s. don't think I am just speaking from bitterness because I was able to win custody of my children with some post-trial behind the scenes efforts of my own - I'm sure that Geissler chalked this up as a win for him, but it wasn't.

I am a former client of Bryan. I had spent a very long time with him and accomplished nothing. I would not recommend him; he tells long pointless personal stories about himself and charged me for them as billable hours. I spent almost ten thousand dollars with him, and now years later I have hired... a new lawyer, and have been informed that Bryan made many mistakes in my original parenting plan. I truly believe that Bryan’s one and only priority is billable hours, he has no compassion. He was highly unprofessional and made many inappropriate comments. I wish I would have read these reviews before I hired Bryan, and I was truly disgusted by what I read in others comments. I would strongly urge you to choose a different lawyer.

Upon the reccomdation of an associate, I hired Mr. Geissler to handle my divorce. His greatest concern was logging his work hours. In fact, during several of our meetings, where I am paying him $250/hr, I would discuss issues, while he would chart his hrs. I asked him how he could charge me, while... he logged his hours, he smiled and told me that he was listening. He would comment to me every time that we would go to court how attractive my ex wife was. My ex told me afterwards that he even asked her out. He advised me to spend money for all kinds of things to better my case and prepare for court, which I did. Some $40,000 later, and extremely prepared for court, he just sat there and didn't do anything during our final hearing. I lost custody of my son, have limited visitation, and have to pay more than I can afford to my ex. If it weren't for family support, I would be homeless. Mr Geissler's reply to all this was you win some and you lose some, and he would be happy to retry the case for me.