Jeremy Bryan Fancher

Attorney Fancher is nice but is very disorganized which caused my case to take almost 2 years to be finalized. I ended up terminating our agreement to work with another lawyer. The new lawyer took less than 1 month to finalized my case. Examples of disorganization: 1. I've never received a month...ly billing statement until my new lawyer sent him a substitution form to terminate our lawyer-client relationship. 2. I asked him to send me a billing statement. He said he would, but never did. 3. It is a common pattern in him promising in email and text that he will take an action immediately or the next day, but never followed up. I have to chase after him multiple times to get a task completed or get a question answered. 4. he did not provide concrete strategies on how to proceed with the case when my counter-party was stalling. As a previous reviewer mentioned, the only thing he's done is to offer motivational words like a supportive friend, instead of providing actionable advice on what I can do to resolve the stagnation. 5. Similar to 3, Fancher didn't answer some emails I sent to him regarding progress and timeline. 6. Fancher was often late on completing paperwork and failed to provide a clear estimation of when paperwork would be completed. I still believe that Attorney Fancher is a nice lawyer and has a good intention. Unfortunately, his working style and lack of relevant legal experience aren't a good fit for my case. Throughout my experience working with Attorney Fancher and interviewing 6 other family attorneys, I learned that a good lawyer should possess the following qualities: 1. ability to respond to a client's email within 24 hours. 2. provide a clear timeline that includes all the steps and how many days it'll take for each step. 3. ability to provide a clear strategy based on client needs. Acts as a thought partner or advisor as clients are communicating with their counter-party. 4. ability to explain the legal process in simple terms to help clients understand. 5. ability to provide a clear estimation of hours based on clients' cases and situations if the cases are simple. 6. ability to prepare all necessary paperwork within 2 days and communicate to clients on when they can expect to receive relevant paperwork. 7. proactive communication. A good lawyer would *follow up* with his/her clients himself/ herself to move the case forward, not the other way around. Unfortunately, Attorney Fancher did not meet all 7 of the qualities above and has a lot to work on before I'd feel comfortable recommending him to other people.

The communication is horrible, phone calls never answered. He made a huge mistake of not serving the opposition, with that I had to wait 3 more months, even though I provided him with all proofs against the other side he never filed anything about it, I asked so many times for things to be a-dressed ...and nothing. I paid for someone to be on my side and I was left to drown.

Had a messy divorce with kids and a small business. Jeremy was really easy to work with and explained the entire process to me. He was also awesome in court and thank god because I could not have spoken for myself. I felt like Jeremy protected me and my family, but I didn't come away from the cas...e with huge attorney's fees. He genuinely wanted me to resolve the divorce as best I could without needing to fight in court for years!

I found him through a site that matched me with him , only later did i test the site only to find he pops up as the match for anyone/ anything so long as youre in the bay area. At the time I saw that his name came up for areas of law unrelated to custody court/guardianship case...i guess if the money...'s right, he'll play the part ..the problem I have is that he lacks the experience and/or wont do the work. Both IMO. I apologize for the length in advance. Not only is he unprofessional (he messaged me on facebook messenger (which I never gave him the info for) telling me i looked like a "young angelina jolie" which obviously isn't bad in and of itself, but what attorney says that to a client!?? way to make a woman feel uncomfortable.) He also said things like "I'll never waste your time by filing papers that you are capable of filling out..I'll only charge you for the work i do and i have an online system where you can log in & see all the work that I've done." He also said he has handled a case like mine, but I should've pressed him for more info. I just didnt because he seemed like a trustworthy person. Obviously I have paid the price for that mistake. Needless to say I never saw that online system & he later (after asking him what work he did) complained about me filing papers. Unless you want to have to hire a lawyer for a lawyer, steer clear of this snake. 1.False Promises- After personally contacting a private investigator to potentially help me , the PI told me that i must not have an attorney with any experience because if he knew anything, he'd know that no one would give me what I was asking for due to the way the laws are set up. I got worried & called him- he reassured me the info i was given was wrong. Turns out (after i asked a judge for more info) the PI was right. 2. Poor or No Records -Will provide you with a bill but zero explanation for what he did. I have asked numerous times & to this day have not seen his explanation of what he did. Other than him texting me back with the demeanor of a supportive friend....& hopefully reading the case files I had already filed when I hired him (we never discussed them so maybe he didnt), the only other time I can think of that involved his time was a 5-10min time frame where I asked him to be available in case theyd let him appear in court for me by phone. Within a couple minutes i communicated to him it was a no go. 3. I never met him - He was in SF I was in Santa Cruz. Only once (& after the weird fb msg) did he say he was in my area due to a case & texted me asking if i wanted to do lunch. It was not planned , also his text was super casual & a little off putting, so i chose not to go. meeting was not incredibly important to me, but be aware if u are out of county 4. He never appeared for me, & never filed anything on my behalf. He would answer my questions via text, but one question I asked was if what the PI said was true, & he gave me the wrong answer. I am pretty sure he just didnt know the answer, because the way the law is written makes you think its a possibility.Two judges have since told me that its not- and that no judge in CA would allow it. 5. His rate is 250-300 hourly, my detainer was 2500 and I believe i got 1000 back. Given that our interactions were comprised of only texts and a couple 5 min calls (not including the hour long consult, which was free) wheres the $1500 of work?I asked him, & to this day hes never told me or bothered to send any explanation. All I have is the receipt, which basically states 2500 - 1500 = 1000. After asking several times to explain what he did, he told me if I continued to bother him he would take legal action. If its not obvious already, we never made it to the courtroom for the hearing he was hired for. Thats why I asked him for the partial refund and when i saw the situation for what it was. Suffice to say that was pretty disheartening,i cried my eyes out.... please dont let that be you.