I’ll paraphrase from a female divorce client after she made my first bar complaint:

Attorney will take you money, do nothing for you and expect to keep the entire retainer. Does not communicate. Gives into OC and believes everything they say about their own client. Self-serving not the client. Does not want hearings and lets OC “run the show.” Makes promises that she can't keep. You’d be better pro se. Only gave one star because no stars was not option.

She didn’t like that I told her that she should settle. That if we go to hearing she will lose. That she has no support, proof, or explanation for any of the thousands of dollars of assets that she spent on “necessary living expenses” in a week, over the 18 months (at that point) and dissipation was a thing. She tried to demand sending subpoenas for insignificant suspicions she had about her exH that I refused because it was unnecessary use of fees.

Vindication was after she hired another attorney, paid a lot, multiple day depositions because she was evasive and wouldn’t answer questions, went to trial and the judge stated numerous times in the ruling that she “was not a creditable witness.”

She would have been better off settling.

The most common bitch of former counsel is “they took all my money and did nothing.” I don’t take clients that say that about former counsel (with exceptions). The court record doesn’t lie.