Courtney Marie Peterson

Hired for my fiancé, a few years ago. If I knew you could review lawyers then I would’ve. She was not on time for court ever, she would have other show up for her with no communication, she got my fiancés case mixed up with someone else’s during court, she was all over the place, unprofessional and d...idn’t care about her clients well being. She was seen laughing with the prosecutors and speaking poorly about clients with them right after sentencing my fiancé. She took a plea deal for him but didn’t tell him he’d be left with 100,000 in restitution for taking said plea deal. We all (him, me and the family) tried reaching out to her in order to figure out 1 why restitution was so high but also why the state is taking restitution out now instead of the agreed upon after he is released. No contact back from her at all. At one point last year we just couldn’t find her in the law office at all. Her phone went straight to voicemail for me until I stopped trying mid last year when I couldn’t find her anymore and gave up. We spent a lot of money obtaining her for the case, I wish we would’ve done more research and found someone better.

You never want to be in the position to need an attorney, we were though. It was for our daughter and it was for drugs. Very scary situation. Ms. Peterson was recommended to us by a friend. We met with Ms. Peterson, she listened, allowed us to be emotional, comforted us and then got down to busine...ss. We talked about the details of the case, she asked a lot of questions, took notes and then stated how she thought we should proceed. Ms. Peterson stated she needed to look into the facts and get with the police to look at their evidence. She quoted us a fair price and told us, if hired, she would do her very best for our daughter, we hired her. Through the case, we had many phone calls, meetings and emails. Our calls and emails were returned promptly. She kept the correspondences on message, as to not overcharge, since it's an hourly business. We greatly appreciated that! Once Ms. Peterson got all the information she needed from us, the police, her investigator and the Prosecuting attorney she called us in for a meeting. She laid out all our options, told us what we could fight for, what we needed to concede and what realistically to expect. She gave us hope but NOT false expectations. When we went to court, Ms Peterson seemed to be on very good terms with the Prosecutor and the Judge. They both greeted her personally and seemed willing to listen to her arguments and accepted the deal she offered. At the end, our daughter got a much better outcome than we ever expected. We are very grateful for Ms. Peterson's legal representation.