Jarvis, Krieger & Sullivan, LLP

Unfortunately I must say that as much as I like Richard Sullivan and Carrie Fogglestein I must make an honest update to my most recent post. No doubt, They are great people. I must say my first post was written shortly thereafter a very small win after many many many blows in this two year quarter of a million $ long case. So please do not mistake this firm for a San Francisco 49ers of the late 80s.
Like I said they are nice people but At the same
time they will bleed you for everything you have. They even attempted to hit my mother up for her retirement after winning such a minuscule aspect to my case. Carrie actually had the nerve to ask me for the green light the to email my mom asking her to pay my bill two days after she got out of the hospital for cancer surgery. I politely declined her offer to ask my mom Because this is not my moms case. This was my case. Yet my mom knew more about it because they often breached my confidentiality as well. Carrie also had the nerve to ask me if I had anymore credit cards I could max out all while the relationship manager was on conference call as they needed money from me despite a 20k flarlpl on my residence. Mind you I was a six figure earner whom could not afford a hot meal eat due to all of the losses of this case.
Most recently I have opened a business which I have dumped everything into, nearly 150k of basically loan shark money. After a divorce that was way over billed (due to this particular firm and in addition to apposing counsel) I will walk away empty handed after the sale of a home that had nearly 200 grand in equity in it. A divorce where nothing went my way. After they realized that I had no more money I was not their interest what so ever anymore. However little do they know I am on my way back up and was most recently I was in the market for a corp atty to put on retainer for my business. I couldn’t even get a call back from them to discuss this. Because of the way they conducted business and harassed me at the end of my divorce case I have nothing but a poor taste in my mouth for this firm. I have made my bed after marrying the wrong person. Greed is a horrible thing and they saw $ signs written all over my fruggle mother who simply wanted to see her grand daughters. All I wanted as a father was every other weekend. And because of lies exposed and not revealing the truth, I didn’t even get close to that. I pray to God that people can see past the smoke and mirrors here. Like I said, great people but very greedy business partners. In my line of work I charge for results. I did warn them of my plan to post this. They didn’t care. They only cared that I was behind in my bill. Best regards to all of JKS. Chris

Dear Andrew,
My sincere thanks go to you and your team for my excellent legal representation. I could not be happier with the results of my trial. You made a very critical difference in my future and no words of expressions can adequately convey the significance of what you have done for me!
I sincerely and eternally will appreciate your safe advice and guidance through a very long, arduous and emotionally demanding experience. Special thanks to Jen Partida & Elizabeth Johnson, both tenacious ladies always kept me on track throughout this challenging process.
Your knowledge, experience and wisdom made a difficult time much easier to navigate. You are and excellent attorney and you did a wonderful job representing me. Thanks again for displaying experience and skill to get the best possible results for me.

Best divorce and custody atturney. I have a atturney Andy walks in says a few words and the court seems to agree with his objections and wut he asks for. I was only seein my son for just hours on a Saturdays and Andy got me in 6 mos of that primary physical custody and the mother pays me child suport with the help of they para leagal Gina she is the best in the buzness she really takes care of your case and takes the time to talk to you emails are on point every time thank you Jarvis Kreager n Sullivan for all your help so far the fight isnt over but its been in my favor threw these forks in the road. I am blessed to have them on my side thanks again your the best.

Once again, I regret not having read some of these reviews. Horrible experience with Kevin Harrison. I am still dealing with the fall out from having him as my attorney to this day. Rushed me into accepting an offer that should have went before the judge. He took my money and went on his happy way without representing me until completion of my case. Gave horrible advice and offered very bad choices. Then I passed him at the court house a few months later and he looked right at me and brushed on past like he didn’t even know who I was. 10,000 dollars of my money in his pocket that is all they care about. Don’t waste your money or your time. He has affected the lives of my children and myself in a very negative way.

Run!!! I can’t even say we were with the Irvine or LB office because our case was tossed back and forth like a football multiple times. Every time, we were charged time for the «new» paralegal or lawyer to review our case, although one time it was handed off the night before trial. Really?
We went to this attorney because one had handled my divorce years prior and he was now with this firm. He did a good job with my case so thought he’d do the same with me boyfriends case… it started off great, but then he unexpectedly left, later to find out his was temporarily and still is not able to practice law. Of course, no one mentioned that to us.
With no assets or property to split and all we asked was for «some» form of custody, this case shouldn’t have taken as long as it did. 4 years, yes 4 years into it both sides had had enough. They wanted $ 10k (we owed $ 30k by this time) or they were going to fire us, so we let them. We found another lawyer and had to pay a new retainer but she was able to get him divorce and everything settled in about 9 months and for about $ 6k. Her name is Tonya Prescott with Prescott and Prescott — she and her daughter are both FANTASTIC!!!
We still owe J, K &S $ 28k and pay them less than $ 100 per month because that’s all we can afford thanks to them and their poor negotiating skills with regard to spousal support. One time I asked Heidi Frankel (a lawyer at JK&S) how my BFs ex could even get spousal suport since she was fired from her job for poor performance and not laid off… and my BF makes nothing… her response was «well, she asked for $ 1000k per month». I don’t care if she asked for $ 1MM, that’s not the point.
Do NOT waste your money with these horrible money hungry people… you WILL regret it!!!

I have never given any attorney a bad review. JKS caused irrevocable damages to my case and myself; horrific defamation and slander to cover themselves and with other attorneys. My female atty «C» showed up an HOUR late at my trial hearing; her FIRST introductory to the judge as my substitute attorney UNPREPARED! My atty states to the judge, «the declaration is on her Ipad and would like to use the clerk services to print out and submit it that day.» My case took a nose dive from there onward. If your case is complex in ALL areas of legal practice this firm claims to be competent in, avoid them at all cost. JKS’ unprofessional conduct, gross negligence’s, and betrayals shocked me. JKS is more interested in gauging your wallet until you literally bleed showing NO compassion what so ever. If you should happen to ask about negative comments in a consultation mtg. with them, the response you’ll hear is a well practiced damage control one in blaming it on the client.
My female attorney «C» proceeds to tell me she’s leaving for a month on vacation, never introduces me to the lawyer substituting in while she’s away and leaves all of her work for her paralegal to handle & all her other cases. Told me the partners will only accept a $ 15,000.00 retainer. 2^nd opinion legal consult confirmed; my attorney «C» allowed discovery to close without any subpeonas. «C» sent me plethora amts of emails, ignored my pleas not to & streamline to (1) day a wk to discuss, meet, etc. in order to keep gross billing fees. She continued!
Attorney, «C» followed the consistent protocol within JKS’ standard; After charging me $ 15,000.00 retainer fee. One month prior to trial, threatens me with withdrawing. Her reason? She stated: «The partners» are requesting you to submit another $ 10,000.00 otherwise she would have to withdraw from my case. She ended up wth $ 25,000.00 of my money and withdrew anyway! I seriously do not know and at that point wanted her gone before causing more damages.
I paid her over $ 25,000.00 I had to borrow from an elderly friend. When I went to pick up my case files, I was met with gross unprofessional hostility by «C». I remained calm & professional at all times. I was advised (friend) to have a police officer go back with me to pick up my case fi to «keep the peace». Can you believe I had to resort to this? THEN, attorney «C» mails 3 pkgs of my case files (4) mo LATER to me.
My paralegal «J» ended up sabotaging my case and worked with opposing attorney against me because she was angry that I confronted her why would she send me an extremely unethical email response; «when you get a chance, please call me». Paralegal «J» stating the F bomb several times. I witnessed paralegal’s dislike with her boss, my atty «C.» Paralegal denied the F bomb email sent to me. Really? Sent me an email coached by JKS principle.
Substitute attorneys would call or those I’ve interviewed to ask questions about my case (aren’t they suppose to confer with the client be?) and continued to set out by giving false, damaging defamation & slander of blatant lies, in an attempt to collude with other attorneys in not taking my case or withdrawing. I swear on my grandmother’ grave this is true.
I assumed «C» had my case under control when in fact other attorneys retained in specialized areas wrote me to say; «she is not helping you’ in fact, she’s hurting you and not doing her job to protect you in the best interest of her client — you!»
After taking my last dime — literally of $ 25,000 my attorney «C» and her paralegal «J», literally turned my case upside down, then withdrew. Who does this and sleeps at nite? THEN attempted to charge me bogus fees on a new invoice of which I’m disputing. The worse part is the evident fact, my attorney «C» and her para «J» set out with deliberate intent to COLLUDE with former and new attorneys to sabotage me and make it look like I’m problem, to create serious doubt in their minds.
We all know; Attorneys are bound by a sworn Oath they took with CA State Bar. Must abide by all Attorney/​Client fiduciary duties to protect in the best interest of their clients. All attorney/​client case matters are privileged (confidential) by law; before, during and AFTER client retainment. AVOID JKS unless you want to loose your case and all your money, so they can continue to cause more harm to clients when all they care about is lining their pockets. Always weigh heavily on attorney’ «negative reviews», above and beyond any «staged» positive review. Statistics show 90% attorney reviews that are negative if greater than THREE are valid.

This has to be the absolute worst, most useless lawyer I have ever dealt with in my entire career. Richard Sullivan killed at least one forest creating a pile of paperwork over the course of a year and in that time failed to produce any results in any way shape or form despite the fact I had an amicable divorce where both sides were willing to sit down and mediate. He never got me temporary support and I could clearly see that he saw our families assets and figured he could bill us for the next few years. This guy has malicious intent written all over him. Stay Away and by the way Ladies, make no mistakes even though you retain him, he is more worried about your soon to be ex being able to retire blah blah blah. It’s no wonder he has 5 out of 6 reviews with 1 star out of Five. THAT’s An F for total and EPIC FAILURE. BE WARE if you are reading this, it’s your lucky day. You have saved your self a lot of money AND grief! This guy is only interested in lining his pockets with your cash! I totally relate and experienced the same thing as Ashley, Sarah, Maria and Mike.

Elizabeth and Andrew know their stuff. I would not consider going anywhere else for a family law matter. Would have never found them without KFI’s advertisement. Found ZEROREZ there too. You get what you pay for and I find their services to be outstanding and very professional.

I went to these guys a while back ago. God as my witness I had to write a really nasty letter when I billing from them for almost 15k and they ended up backtracking quickly. I told them up front how much I had to take care of this matter.
Not only did it take them six months to get any support in place, they considered that a win. Really, I’ve done this on my own again recently and it took me all of two months.
I was passed from attorney to attorney. Andrew is scummy and didn’t even recognize me when we got to court. I forget the woman’s name, but she wasn’t even around half the time. They are just lucky I didn’t file a complaint with the BAR. That’s how awful these guys are.
Don’t buy John and Ken’s paid ads. The pain they will put you through is not worth it!
With what little I got together, I found another attorney to finalize the whole thing a year and a half later.

Was really impressed with how my divorce case seemed to addressed initially. But then came the passing of my case to not one, but two different paralegals. Then came the missing of documents and information which had been submitted to the firm several times.
After 6 months, my divorce was finally completed, but I am still, 14 months later, waiting for them to receive a judgment on a very simple property division.
The worst part, however, is I hired the firm to help me obtain child support from my non complaint ex husband. I’ve still not received anything, and when I recently visited the department of child support services, they informed me that it was because the judgment in place didn’t hold my ex to any monetary responsibility.
When I’ve tried to email the firm to investigate this matter, I have received no response.
So, 14 months later, I am $ 8,000 in debt due to attorney fees and now finding they did nothing to help me receive compensation from my ex.

Ditto on the above review! My case was years ago, more before Unilocal became popular I guess. However, my experience was the same.
RUN! These people should be put out of business!!!

MONEY PIT… hope you have some cash to spend. and time on your hands! What’s the difference between a prostitute and this law firm? At least with a prostitute – you get what you paid for! The similarity? Either way you get screwed!
Read their poor reviews on Unilocal and was an idiot for not listening – don’t be next! Expensive lesson learned!
I do not typically leave comments/​reviews, but I got burned so badly, I wanted to warn others even considering using this firm to find another attorney (see end of my review) and save you the trouble.
I’ll sum it up for you:
— They’re wonderful at selling you a sales pitch INITIALLY
— There’s no «free» consultation – you are charged as it’s on the billing invoice.
— Administrative fees (emails, phone calls, etc) take up most of your retainer ($ 5K) before you even get to go to court
— Long periods of no communication from them (for me at least). I had to do most of the calling and emailing to get updates.
— Passive attorneys – and your not assigned to just one as they pass your case around so inconsistency (despite their claims that «there will be a lion in the court room fighting for you» as they told me at my consult)
— If you cannot pay your lump sum balance (which mine was in the thousands after retainer was gone), they will literally let you go and not represent you (as is my case, my income was getting garnished at nearly 50% – they knew this and when I asked them to help me get it to a realistic level so I could afford to pay them – they failed to do so, practically dismissed the situation so now I’m on food stamps)
— I got way more calls from them to get paid than for updates or results on my case, its pretty much the only time I heard from them.
— Attorneys love to kill time in court and waste precious hours (on your wallet) dilly– dallying. My lawyer was not aggressive to fight for me. Despite me insisting to go straight to the court room to see the judge and have him make a decision for us, she insisted we waited on my ex’ attorney to make a deal with us (which they refused consistently). No matter how much I insisted we go straight to the judge, she did not agree. Another attorney told me its called «churning the case» and they do it to purposely to rack up the bill – its unethical.
— My file got passed around – you are not assigned to ONE attorney and you pay for the man hours. Expensive inconsistency.
— Horrible communication
— My lawyer had the nerve to tell me I needed to re-​consider my spending since I couldn’t afford them. All my $ goes to my son’s school tuition (which my ex refuses to pay so I have to), food and gas and the other 50% to my ex-​wife through garnishments… really?!) How rude! I asked them several times to help get my garnishments lowered-​they get paid enough– so I could actually feed myself and pay bills. they never followed through! I’m literally on food stamps now… thanks to this law firm.
— All the other negative reviews are right on the dot!
— NO RESULTS except a broken wallet! I am being forced to self-​represent as my attorney literally told me to do when they told me they were closing my case due to my inability to pay them $ 9,600 balance up front and to come get my file… in 3 months, never saw a judge and no results= $ 14,600.
— RUN to another attorney if you want to get business done – find lawyers who WILL fight for you and not just your wallet!
It was an $$ lesson to learn how to represent myself in court, basically.
How’s that for this law firm – lawyers who will «fight for you». They fight for your money, that is it. I’m shocked they even have 2.5 stars rating, as they don’t even deserve ½ a star!
GO TO THIS GUY!
A day after I paid the $ 5K retainer for this law firm, 2 different friends referred this guy saying he has a great reputation, but I can’t afford him now. He supposed to be great at family law/​child custody issues. I’d hire him if I had the money. After talking to him explaining my case, he comes across as a «no-B.S», straight shooter, direct, gets down to business, professional. He became a lawyer because his ex wife screwed him over and pissed him off so bad in a divorce and played games with his kids as well that it drove him to become a lawyer to fight for those going through same thing. I’d do anything to rewind time and hire THIS guy: Jeff (949) 378‑4210.
From now on I’m listening to Unilocal.Good luck!

RUN, don’t walk away from this bush league «law» office. Disgusting! My divorce case took over 14 months, my file passed around to no fewer than 8 clerks — each less competent than the last.
AVOID Andrew Klausner at all costs! A horribly unprofessional, slimy excuse for a man and unable to put up anything resembling a defense. Only there to produce billable hours and works better with the competition than his own clients.
Abrasive, condescending, and hides behind the firm’s name — a total scumbag.
Ignore the blue sky promises they will make to you up front !! It’s a scam and they are just after your retainer.
Go elsewhere !!!

Irvine Location — Disengaged and outclassed by opposing council. Literally settled my own case. Billed for services after they provided releases to protect their own interests.

I am actually posting for their Orange County office. I had the pleasure of meeting with one of the partners Mr. Richard Sullivan for my initial reveiw of my divorce case. He gave me an outline of what would take place and what I should expect to happen. After nearly 18 months of trying to settle we finally did. Richard had Heidi Frankel handle my case and I must say she is by far one of the most intelligent and helpful attorneys I have ever dealt with. Always on top of things, constant communication, and even a little friendly nudge if I was slow to supply documents or reply to an email. She took what was a terrible situation and made me feel at ease. And the best part was what Richard and Heidi told me would be the outcome, well guess what it was. Thanks to them I am back on track in my life and worry free. :)