Jeff Igoe

Friendly, compassionate, and real. What an amazing team! I was in search of a "kind and ethical"attorney to help me through my divorce and I couldn't have been more impressed. They went above and beyond and made a very difficult time easy to navigate and made resolution possible in a very tough situation. I felt supported, heard, and I would recommend them to anyone that is looking for a law firm that is actually full of nice people. Especially in the family law space that is filled with not so nice attorneys just trying to make things difficult to make more $, this was the exact opposite. They did things to speed up the process, limit interactions and keep my bill as low as possible. Just being able to talk things through, including your feelings is so helpful and I really felt like I had a team on my side.

Cheryl Marine

I selected this law firm solely based on convenience and lack of research, my fault. Their staff is very friendly and pleasant to deal with; I will give them that. However, as my attorney, Brice was not a good fit for my case. My case involved one minor child. The goal was to have the ability to move out of state with my child. Brice had ample information and time to prepare a rock solid case on my behalf. Well, he did not do that. He went into court very unprepared, had a very sloppy and weak cross examination. He failed to mention very pertinent details involving my child and her father. Didn’t highlight the benefits for the move. I could go on and on, but ultimately I was highly disappointed with Brice’s service and out 30k. Do your research before selecting any firm!

Destry Hollomon

State 48 is a fantastic law firm led by extremely knowledgeable lawyers and teams. They truly care about helping the people in need of their services and deliver the outcomes their clients want.

Paul Amoroso

This review is not on Jillian Hansen as a person. She’s a nice person and extremely book smart. This is my experience with her on a very simple divorce case that was made complex. First, I called 20-25 divorce attorneys with no answers from any of them. Jillian was a friend of a friend and was able to get her information that way. If I could do it all over again I would get a male attorney .I f you’re a man, Get a male attorney. Don’t stop calling. Show up and find a male attorney. It truly does not matter what you pay for your attorney. I was paying top dollar for State 48 and Jillian and my Ex got a “pro bono” attorney that fought harder for her than Jillian did for me. Jillian knows divorce law inside and out. She’s book smart. NOT STREET SMART. As an attorney you have to be creative and able to think of ways to be in the gray area. She does none of that. I would ask her for her opinion. She would put it back on me. I was paying her for her advice and she would not give me any and the advice she did give me wound up being the wrong advice. Which my feeling is she was secretly on my ex wife’s side. Looking back I paid for things on a community property that I should not have paid. Jillian is not too hard to get ahold of which is a positive but when you’re paying north of $450 an hour she should be on call. In the end cost me north of $45k! I could have given my ex everything I had and still would have saved money doing this! She protected me from nothing. The whole process of this divorce I was telling her “my ex is trying to drain me of money and time” which was the truth. She did nothing to protect me from that. She could have completely stalled negotiations and not charged me for a whole year until we could get a trial date set but she continued to go back and forth with opposing counsel draining me of money for absolutely no reason. She was the only one making out during this period of time (which was a year and a half). I was a great client, brought her another new client while I was going through the process. Paid all my invoices on time. Even was able to get reports from a CPA and real estate agents which she never used or brought up during mediation. During mediation, I was in a room with 5 women and myself. Another reason to get a male attorney if you’re a man. They’re all on the side of the woman. Jillian sat there very quiet during meditation. I was speaking for most of the time in meditation. Again, another example of knowing the law but not having those “intangible” characteristics of a great attorney. Bottom line. If you’re stuck trying to find an attorney. Do not stop with State 48 because you can’t get anyone else to call back. Continue to search and dig and find the best value attorney you can. If this review can help one more person than maybe the money I wasted on this law firm wasn’t a complete throw away.

Leah Polanco

This law firm is a Joke…… We had a very bad experience dealing with Jillian. It was stated before in previous reviews that she will not defend male even if you are paying top money. This is a TRUTH STATEMENT. She gave us really bad advice, advance that was against us instead of the other party. When she was confronted about it she stated that we were not a good fit and let us go but charging us tons of money for basically leave the case worse than before. If you are not capable of dealing with big/ complex cases just let the client know in advance that way they don’t have to spend more and more money with no resolution. I will think twice before hiring any one from this law firm.