Bucholz & Burke, PLLC

While our initial consultation made me feel heard and supported, it has been nearly four months since our last contact despite multiple attempts to call, text and email. I've been left hanging without the agreement I paid for and have been forced to seek for and hire another attorney. As much as I understand that life happens and he may truly be unable to help me at this time, I've paid for a service and believe I deserve an explanation, at minimum, as this significantly impacts a very sensitive situation.

He seems like he might be a nice guy, but after he agreed to take on our simple case, we've only progressed inches in the 6 months that we hired him. It takes him weeks to respond to emails (after I've sent multiple follow ups) and it's been a month since we cancelled his services, requested our invoice and a refund of the retainer we paid him, and we still haven't received it. Again, probably a nice guy, but I've been nothing but tirelessly disappointed since hiring him and would recommend people look elsewhere for their legal needs. All his 5 star reviews are from years ago. It's a shame he takes people's money and then just disappears. You get people's hopes up, John, on very personal and sensitive matters. Maybe you should start saying no to people if you're too busy to actually help them.

John Buchholz is an AMAZING adoption lawyer/attorney! He is very responsive and prompt with paperwork and communication. He made us feel very comfortable and at ease throughout the entire adoption process and we feel so blessed to have had such an amazing attorney represent us! John is very professional and personable and guided us through the adoption process beginning to end. He is also very reasonably priced! I can not say enough great things about our adoption experience working with John Buchholz!

John Buchholz is an excellent lawyer. He made sure that the process for both of our second-parent adoptions (2 kids, 2 years apart) was as smooth as possible. He also completed our wills and power of attorney documents and we are very happy with them. Each time we spoke with him over the phone or in person he answered all of our questions and explained all of the legal jargon thoroughly. He is very knowledgeable, especially about how the law pertains to same-sex families, like ours, and other queer families. John is also personable. It's apparently that he loves helping families get the legal protections they need. He even came to the hospital when both of our children were born so we could sign the adoption paperwork and get it submitted to the courts that same day. (We didn't want any delay in the adoption on our part.) John also doesn't have hidden fees. He is honest and upfront about costs, which are reasonable. My partner and I would recommend John to anyone needing a good lawyer.

We paid for services and then he ghosted us for 7 months. We are filing official complaint against him. Do not recommend.