Woehrle Dahlberg Jones Yao PLLC

Carolyn Dahlberg was extremely helpful throughout my traffic matter and was able to get me the results that I wanted in the end! She gave me great advice and handled my situation with care. I appreciated all her efforts in the entire process and would highly recommend this firm.

I was placed with Phillip Lecky. Bless his heart he is very sweet, however; he is not an effective communicator at all. He is very nervous in court to the point he stumbles constantly on his words. No organization what so ever. I had a custody battle which I presented to my attorney ample reasoning why I should have sole custody. I started out with joint where I had primary physical and shared legal of my Infant son. When the final verdict came I ended up getting shared custody. It was very embarrassing to hear the judge get annoyed and impatient with Mr. Lecky. This place was recommended to me but I am saying go somewhere else hell I could of represented myself better than this individual.

If I could give ZERO stars, I would! I hired Amanda Lewis for my son seeking custody of his daughter. Had an initial one hour free consult where we both spoke w/Amanda at length and made it very clear Full Custody was our only goal and the reason she was hired. My son already had a visitation order in place that had been violated by the custodial parent multiple times. He saw his daughter only six days out of 365 last year and not at all this year. Despite the order granting him well more visits and a consecutive 30 days which was never received as well. The paternal family has not seen the child either. Show Cause orders were filed by my son. Despite the strength of my son's case, because there are other factors I can't disclose as it is still an open case, Amanda constantly tried to convince him to accept a settlement from the opposing counsel for visitation! There was NO fight in her to support his desire and direction and she constantly billed him for excessive conversations w/opposing counsel. We paid $3100 and were billed an additional $1k and we are nowhere near the court date set for Nov 2021 by her. Nor has she reviewed the case with him for her strategy. I contacted her firm Woehrle, Dahlberg & Yao to request they provide some guidance as she did not seem competent to handle a case independently. I never heard back from the office. Instead Amanda sends an email to my son accusing him of declining ALL reasonable settlements and quits! She then billed him $25 for writing this letter and CONTINUES to bill him after quitting stating she'll bill until he signs a doc acknowledging he agrees although he's written in agreement. Truth is, he was not interested in any settlement regarding visitation as the custodial parent has not followed that order for three years! In her letter she states because he refuses all reasonable offers she cannot in good conscious continue to be his attorney. This is beyond the truth. He had already told her no after she'd asked him three different times to settle. He pleaded with her to just believe in his cause. Offer a settlement on his behalf for custody and visitation to the nonconpliant parent! Why would he pay her for just another visitation order that was not in his nor his child's best interest. My son has been deployed out of the country serving our nation and can't even have routine conversations with his daughter because there is such a disregard for him as the father. Amanda knows this. Perhaps it's because she does not have children of her own and cannot phathom that type of pain. RUN in the other direction from this lawyer!!! She lacks compassion and plain old common sense! The firm is no better. She practices under their guidance. I was told because she'd only been practicing for a year, that she would not be alone and she would have the support of the senior partners with experience and that wasn't the truth at all!! They take your hard earned money and leave you high and dry without even offering alternative counsel or intervention for resolution of your concerns knowing she is a new inexperienced lawyer!! My son wasn't getting invoices as stated he would. By the time he saw an invoice months later, they said his retainer fee was spent and he owed even more! She nickels and dimes you for anything and everything with no known progress! RUN in the other direction from Amanda Lewis AND this firm!! I hope this is helpful for anyone unsuspecting. Who wants to pay $4100 PLUS...four months away from your court date and progress nowhere in site...for a lawyer who has not provided you the service you were promised and doesn't believe in your cause!

If I could give a negative rating for this law firm, I would!!!!!!! First of all, I must admit, I was member of LegalShield which placed me at a major disadvantage because this law firm must've assumed I was a welfare recipient because that's the level of service I received. Due to my discounted membership, I was assigned the WORST person with law degree ever from this firm. You notice, I intentionally left the word lawyer out because he is not that. Do NOT allow this horrible firm to assign you PHILLIP LECKY!!!!! He is nice (I don't need nice) but unprofessional, unorganized, had the NERVE to be late to my first hearing, and this "good ole boy" country court system in Chesterfield VA looks at him as a joke. Literally, the judge and my ex's attorney both openly laughed at him in hearing after he made several procedural errors in hearings. Due to his persistent incompetency and lack of court room experience, my ex fiancé was awarded double the current value for a used car she NEVER owned or had titled in her name, she was also able to return a damaged engagement ring to me while in court and Phillip did not possess the confidence and/or competence to object to anything. I paid this trifling law firm thousands of dollars only to be represented in the most inattentive manner ever experienced in a court room. Don't use this law firm, Phillip Lecky, and/or LEGAL shield.

I wish they had a option for zero stars I am so glad for the judge that took Carolyn off my case it’s sad the discrimination that I received