Complaint Review: ATTORNEYS ON DEMAND

As a solo, semi-retired attorney in Northern California, I occasionally use one of several services which will find an attorney to cover an appearance for me in SoCal.  Generally, my experience with such services has been quite favorable, with no surprises.

Unfortunately, I called AOD, thinking it was one of the other, similarly named services I have used.  Big mistake.

From intake, to assignment of an attorney, to communicating the specific requirements of the court appearance, to reporting on the appearance, to explaining or disclosing the basis of their charges, these guys fail to do business in a business-like fashion from A to Z.

The only reason I have paid their exorbitant surprise additional billing is because I do not want to stiff the attorney who handled the appearance.  She handled things as a professional, while AOD failed to do so in every regard.

My numerous emails to them have been ignored. Even when someone called to find out about delays in payment, and promised to look at my emails, they were still ignored.

And while they were perfectly happy to accept a credit card for the initial intake fee, they wanted an additional charge to pay the exorbitant surprise later bill.

This is a real bush-league outfit, and I would discourage any other attorney from doing business with them.