Osborne & Barnhill, P.C.

I hired Todd Barfuss to represent me in my second mediation with my ex husband. He was responsive to my questions and concerns. He was respectful of my hesitancy to be in the same room with my ex and came up with a solution that worked for me. During mediation, there was a point that my ex was fighting for and I was just going to give in. Todd told me that he thought it was something that mattered and he was not going to allow me to just give in. I am so glad he did that, because later it would have mattered to me.

Edit: I had left this review last year. It somehow was taken down. I wanted to make sure it went back up so, if you ended up considering to hire, Todd Barfuss, you don’t. I did report him to the state and there is an investigation happening. I am leaving this review to warn others not to hire Todd Barfuss. I am researching how to report him to the state bar for his misconduct. I have also reported him and his law firm to the Better Business Bureau. If you have had a bad encounter with Todd Barfuss due to him misrepresenting himself, I strongly suggest you do the same. Todd Barfuss promised me to keep my costs low, and he milked every penny from me that he could. He assured me in our first meeting that he would keep my costs down and use paralegals to do that. Todd Barfuss prided himself on saving his clients as much money as he possibly could... I now realize he would have said anything to me to get me to hire him and to get his hands on my money. Todd Barfuss is charming and manipulative and will tell you anything to make you feel like he is capable of helping you. Todd Barfuss is not transparent; he will not send you monthly billing statements, and if you ask for one, it will take lots of time to get one. You will be shocked that he has spent as much of your money as possible. The billing invoice will be lumped together with many things he claims he has done. Be careful; he will call you a lot to ensure you do not have a paper trail and continue to assure you that he is keeping costs low and helping you. He is incompetent, and I'm appalled that he still has a license to practice the law. I am still fighting Todd to get the money he owes me; if I had received monthly billing statements from him, I would have been able to fire Todd immediately for misspending my money. I advise you to avoid hiring this man and find another attorney to help you. I can not speak of the other attorneys working at this firm and their capabilities; all I can speak on my experience with Todd Barfuss.

Based on my experience, I think Todd Barfuss is a dishonest, incompetent attorney. He kept me hanging on, and of course paying him, for almost a year with apologies and promises of what he could do and would do and how he would do a better job. The last time he called me to apologize, he said he had other clients he also needed to call and apologize to, I wasn't the only one he owed an apology to. This alone should scare you off. As far as the law firm of Osborne and Barnhill, I don't know if it's true about guilty by association, but I know if Barfuss was my business partner, I would be humiliated to have his name associated with mine, and he'd be fired in a flash. As far as the standard response businesses put on bad reviews.....Todd always seemed to have my phone number to call me to resolve paying him more money. I hired him for my daughter and he never claimed himself as her attorney until I fired him.

I hired Mr. Barfuss in 2011 to help me with a very intense child custody battle, big let down, Instead of rescheduling further out or asking for a continuance, he tried to notify me of a date change just a few days before the already scheduled court date instead of rescheduling past the arranged date, they changed it to the day before, and it was my parent time with my child, I had no way to get to the courthouse and had misheard him on the phone when he had called and apparently said there was a court date change. That being said, Even though I was caring for my child who I had been in a custody battle over when court had began, I lost custody of my child and had my attorney asked to proceed past the scheduled date rather than before the scheduled date, things probably would have gone quite a bit differently.

We are seniors who hired Todd Barfuss to help our daughter. For almost a year he virutally did nothing but take our saving account. He also cost our daughter thousands of dollards because he didn't proceed with the case in a timely manner.