Padula & Associates LLC

I would give negative –5 stars if I could. She bragged about her 20 years of experience and her successful rate before I retained her. The moment I wrote her a cashier check, she checked out and gave me excuses after excuses such as busy, in a meeting, in court, with kid, with dog, on vacation, on coffee breaks, traffic, etc.
Because I was referred to her from another guy I’ve decided to give her benefit of the doubt, all 3.5 months of it. I highly regretted my decision of giving her the benefit of the doubt. I should have fired her the moment she rushed me out of her office as I handed over the cashier check.
She won’t even setup meetings until I requested it. When I had the first meeting it was with her associate and they don’t even know what my case was about. When I asked for status of the case, she told me I have to «trust her». She also refuse to response to any mean of communication regarding the status of the case and threaten the only person that gets in the way was me in the case. She told me she doesn’t like my behavior of asking for status of my case. Late to court and every meeting. The paralegal/​secretary won’t even state it’s a law office when called and barely wanted to answer any calls. When I did get to meet, any question I asked turned into an argument and turned into a sales pitch and bragging about her past cases even though it was completely irrelevant to my case.
Bottom line is if you want to get swindled, retain her. If not there are countless of more honest and competent attorneys out there. Even public defendant will do 100x better than her! The bar is easy to clear when she just take your money and run. Representing yourself would be a million time better than going thru the headaches I’ve endured with her.
She also won’t refund money and told me she doesn’t need to refund anything per her lopsided contract agreement even though she hasn’t done a thing.