Client Review on Schloemer Law Firm

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Since I first needed an attorney in my life and my dad took me to see Mr. Schloemer, possibly 30-40 years ago, I always felt that I would be taken care of by this firm and that I could trust their judgement, until recently. My parents had them put together a trust for their estate, that was suggested by Mr. Spella during a meeting which my wife and I drove down to attend with my parents, at their request. Mr. Spella really did a fine job that day explaining the pros and cons to my parents so they could understand and indeed they eventually decided to have the trust set up in the hopes of avoiding some of difficulties that my father had faced dealing with his father's estate when he passed away. Well things did not exactly work out the way my parents had hoped. When they passed away, my father in July 2010 & my mother in February 2011. The firm was selected to finalize the estate and get things settled for my two sisters and myself. Although I was one of the trustees in the trust my one sister and myself were never contacted by the attorney handling the situation. When after months I demanded a meeting with the attorney by Friday of that week, I received an email from him at 9-9:30 PM Friday night stating that he was also frustrated with the actions of my one sister, who had supposedly been caring for my parents, and he suggested that my other sister and myself get private counsel to help us because he couldn't help us, because he represented my other sister. Well that was kind of shocking to me, to say the least. I understood that my sister in question was also a trustee, but so was I and the trust was paying for the costs of this so how could he represent only one and indeed one involved as a beneficiary too.Well my other sister and I did indeed get another firm to represent us and after close to $100,000 in legal fees and almost two years later we prevailed and were able to get the estate basically divided equally to all three of us, liked my parents had set up the trust to accomplish. They wanted to treat all of us the same after death like they had in their life.I hope that the firm has corrected what ever conditions existed to allow this type of thing to happen to a client, because I used to think very highly of the firm. But I currently would never recommend this firm to anyone, even though I used to and often did.