Law Offices Of Mina Ramirez

Well I made a BIG mistake with hiring this firm for my custody case. I’m not saying because I did not win or get what I wanted. I’m saying this as a warning to to others. Ms. Ramirez is purely money driven. There is zero concern for the client or the children. I had my consultation with Ms. Ramirez and of course she said all the usual promises: we can win this, your in a good position, blah blah blah. We spoke about money and I had told her that my wife had cleared are accounts out and I only had a certain amount of money. She quoted me an amount and that was with-​in my budget. Well from there it went down hill. From that day forward I never had Mina again, she pushed me off on her assistant. He was fresh out of law school and had no idea what he was doing. I complained and she said he was cheaper. I was to deep into this case and out of time so I had to stay. This guy only cared about his billable hours. He would call me and leave a message, if I didn’t get back to him right away he would keep calling 10 – 12 times a day. Mind you he was billing me 10mins per phone call. You do the math. I finally had to tell him stop calling me 10 – 12 times a day, I got the message I’m at work. Then my answer that we filed back to my wife’s, Well he had asked me to right down everything that had been going with my wife and my son. So I did and emailed it to him. I was thinking he would take that info reorganize it, add in some legal terms and make it look nice. OH NO, he literally just put in exactly what I wrote. Needless to say my court date didn’t go well. We want back to court at another day and low and behold Mina was there. Well she was just there to ask for more money or she would not go into court with me that day. WOW! So on my court date she tells me pay more money or she walks. Well I didn’t have it and so I had to represent myself that day and to be honest I think it came out the same as if she was there. I was actually able to argue down my child support on my own. So at the end of all this she tacked on another 2k on top of what I had already paid and left me standing in court on my own. So I hope this helps others in some way.

My consultation went smoothly and everything was done at a professional matter. My questions and concerns were addressed, reviewed, and discussed with honesty. Attorney at law, Ms. Ramirez, was very helpful and welcoming and made everything less stressful for me. The staff was welcoming as well, they made sure i was comfortable and meeting my needs. They are talkative and friendly and i recommend this firm. Sure was satisfied!

Having worked with The Law Office of Mina Ramirez through a long drawn out divorce and custody battle (against Cash-​Dudley, Spieler and Torres) I can speak personally on my experience. Mina is good, she is one to speak up and argue with the opposing attorney. Where I was very disappointed is in the research she did or should I say didn’t do… I felt like I had to constantly review and correct paperwork and do my own research. Then the next issue I had was not showing up to court with me when I needed her most. She would send her substitute attorney/​assistant who while working with her changed two or three times all of which were pretty young and very inexperienced. At times with I would get upset with her helper because he wouldn’t speak up and would get trampled on… I was telling him that he needed to speak up and he would get upset, but it was all my expense and I felt like I would’ve been better off with someone else. Her prices are through the roof and her service is something else! On a better note, her office personnel is nice and polite. Cassie Renner would always send me my requested docs, was kind and did her best to get me the answers I was looking for. Mina came recommended to me by a friend who worked with her with a criminal matter so maybe she’s better with those cases. I would not recommend her for representation in a divorce or custody battle… I did end up getting my spousal and child support reduced, but I think I could’ve found better representation.

First of all, my wife and I both have dealt with Mina and her office throughout the entirety of the second part of my mother-in-law’s case which lasted from 2012 –2014. This was a Divorce case that started in 2007.
Your first impression of Mina may be that she is a professional and knowledgeable attorney who sincerely cares about you and your case. She definitely has the knowledge, but once you have retained Mina you will find her and her «team» of paralegals rude, unhelpful, dishonest and arrogant (particularly her bilingual paralegal). This is especially true when confronted with case resolution or updates. We were actually told by another, more well known firm that Mina is «OK», but doesn’t have the ability to deal with her workload. She works at a very slow pace and will most definitely flake and forget about your particular case on more than one occasion. If you are looking to resolve your case in a professional manner in a reasonable amount of time, DO NOT HIRE HER.
In regards to our specific case, it would take several paragraphs to explain the entirety of the issues we had with her office, so I will attempt to summarize in support of my above explanation.
1)Mina promised not to charge my mother-​in-​law for completing her Will, as well as charging us «only» $ 900 for completion of 2 QDRO’s. We were charged for the Will and there was, in fact, only 1 QDRO required.
2)Initially Mina informed us that after paying another $ 5,000 to retain her services to pursue aspects of the court order that the defendant was refusing to cooperate with, unless he wanted to fight the order in court again, should take no longer than 6 months AT THE MOST. It ended up taking almost 2 years. Keep in mind the judgment had already been made and the initial case was complete. When we spoke with the other, well-​known attorney mentioned above, they made it clear that they would take a more aggressive approach, charge $ 2500 and that there’s no reason it should take more than 6 months at all. My mother-​in-​law had been working with her for so long and wanted to believe Mina and give her the benefit of a doubt, so she chose not to switch attorney’s against mine and my wife’s suggestions. Mina by no means took an aggressive approach as promised for a speedier resolution, which leads to my next point.
3)Throughout the entire period of the case there were several «fumbles» on the part of Mina and her paralegals. They never called to give us case updates and when they informed us they would send paperwork out and it would only take another «week» or «a couple days», we would wait. On several different occasions we would wait an entire month for them to send a single piece of paperwork to the courts for processing and not hear a word. When we would call this is literally the response we got on at least 5 different occasions from her paralegal working on the case; «I was just working on it just before you called.» Really? This was supposed to be done a month ago and you’re barely working on it now? They would ALWAYS happen to be working on whatever paperwork they were supposed to have sent in several weeks prior, minutes before I called!
4)Mina is a flake. She will flake on court appointments and she will NEVER let you know whether she will be there or not, and whether it would be necessary for you to attend a hearing. On 1 particular occasion after leaving several messages with Mina’s paralegals throughout the week to find out it my mother-​in-​law had to be in court and not receiving a response, she took the bus to the court house expecting Mina to be there. She never saw Mina and we ended up having to go and pick her up. We later found through her paralegal that Mina had actually been in court earlier and taken care of the issue before the scheduled appt. time. From this point on we were never able to meet with Mina (she had her paralegals «substitute» for her when we specifically scheduled appointments to speak with her) either in person or by phone. When we asked how we would be able to speak with my mother-in-law’s own attorney, her paralegal assisting on the case actually told us that she didn’t know what to tell us.
Mina and her office fail both as an attorney and as professionals. Once you pay her you will stress about and regret hiring her throughout the entirety of your case.

These people are so unprofessional. I will never recommend anyone, if anything I will warn them not to ever see them. I left Mina Ramirez three messages seeking help for a terrible vehicle accident I was involved in. Every time I called I gave my name and they had no idea of my previous messages. The last time I called the receptionist sounded like she was waking up from her nap or was perhaps getting ready for bed. Really an Attorney’s office?! Btw the three messages where over a period of four days! What a waste of my time. Stupid people!

Had set up a appt for 30 free consultation to be at 3:00PM and they said she was going to call me back. NEVER got a call back. That is extremely unprofessional. I guess dont expect a call back unless you are paying!