Complaint Review: Jean Mercurio Esq Alber Sklavos

In my opinion, Jean was subpar and did nothing to effectively negotiate for me and seemed to have no interest in helping me settle my case. I was incredibly dissapointed with her poor comminication (tons of calls, texts and emails ignored), her lack of organizational skills (I repeatadly had to email her documents I had already send and was charged for the same things multiple times), inability to focus on my case and poor preparation for my trial which took over three years to get scheduled. Despite me being in real estate for over twenty years, she wanted me to value my house hundreds of thousands of dollars over maket value. When I told her what actual market value was and supplied comps, she didn't want to hear it. Sidenote the appraisal came in for a price right around what I had said and I am buying my ex out at market value. We spent days at depositions with her asking me and my ex tons of questions, costings thousands of dollars.

Shortly thereafter it was time to go to trial. Despite this and also spending hours on so called prepartion for trial, she didn't spend any real time actually prepping me. I had no idea what she would be asking me up on the stand or how to answer the odd questions she asked me that appeared to be beneficial to my ex. That being said, this created a very stressful and confusing few days ending with me accepting what I believe to be an unjust settlement to be paid in a very short amount of time that ultimately hurt myself and my family. After the settlement agreement was signed, I had no guidance on what to do next. About a month later, after hiring a great attorney to handle the Qdro for me, I found out that her office did not submit the final judgement of divorce. I called to inquire as to why and apparently they just didn't get to it yet. Once they did finally submit it, it was rejected multiple times because it was filled out wrong. Each time I had to notify them to request they resubmit it because again they were not on top of things.

In all honesty, the only thing this office was on top of was reaching out to me every time my 15,000 retainer was down to 20% which seemed to be every few weeks.