Mc Kernan Lanam Bakke Williams

Not a good experience here. We had Williams as a "unbiased" mediator for an estate that was strongly opposed by every single member of the family except for the elder son/ executor. He allowed them a favoritism and seemed indifferent to the obvious preferential treatment even though we pointed it out in the first minutes. The mediator just kept repeating the oppositions talking points like they were his own words. We were hamstrung from the first 5 minutes We were there for 6 or 7 straight hours and starving as they scheduled no lunch break (and no mention of dinner) we had people waiting for us in the parking lot for hours till they gave up. nice facility although it ended up more like a hostage negotiation. They had water, a bathroom and a few snacks but that was it.

Crista Benedict has been amazing for my custody case, she was one of the few attorneys who shared my concerns, she has a small child of her own and saw exactly where I was coming from. I’m very pleased to have retained her and stuck with her, that is not to say that there weren’t times of frustration due to the speed at which the case moved, which might be a similar complaint found elsewhere in the reviews, but that has more to do with the nature of the legal system than with Crista’s lack of commitment. Often times I would receive an email at 12:30 at night after she had been at the office all day, she somehow found time to be both a mother and a dedicated professional. Another example is during a recovery after surgery she was working, which is very impressive. I can be a difficult customer at times, but Crista was patient and tempered my decisive nature with caution. If you hire her, I encourage patience, she is like a steam engine, she may appear slow at first but given time she works much faster delivering powerful persuasive arguments.