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My experience with Robert P. Ritacca,Esq. Was seamless, efficient and very professional. You can trust him!!! I rate him A plus Joanne Esplin

DO NOT TRUST AVVO!!! I’ve posted a question and the response from lawyer was very rude and hostile. Also as a client I’ve posted a question about client/ lawyer agreement and I (client) was not happy with agreement, THAT LAWYER that I worked with in the past can see my questions and I’ve never posted names and law firm. I’ve made sure that post was completely unanimous. THERE IS NO PRIVACY!

Tried posting a negative review about a racist lawyer, but they rejected it because it " goes againt community guidlines" how is warning people of a racist lawyer a bad thing??? Beats me. The crazy part is theres videos all over the internet about said lawyer, but i guess they have to protect rheir clientele even if they are racist jerks.

DON’T EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME POSTING A QUESTION!! I posted my question and received 4 answers, all of them rude in one way or another. None of them answering the question. The only thing AVVO is good for is learning who NOT to hire because the lawyers are so rude in their responses.

I have posted reviews of lawyers on this website over the last few years. When I post a five-star review of a lawyer, it goes through somewhat automatically, I get an approval statement from the website usually the next day. On two occasions, I submitted negative reviews of lawyers who had not done a good job. The next day, in both cases, my reviews were rejected for violating "community guidelines." The community guidelines are overly broad and, more interestingly, the website does not tell you which guideline you have supposedly violated. This omission is noteworthy as lawyers are a profession devoted to detail. In one of the two cases, I gave a negative review to a lawyer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This attorney actually claimed to Avvo that I had not seen him and Avvo came back to me to ask for proof of our meeting. This is a violation of confidentiality by a website. In any case, Avvo eventually posted the negative review of this man in Winston-Salem, after several days and several emails back and forth. According to its website, Avvo claims to provide “more information” to help potential clients make “better decisions.” Yet, Avvo apparently makes little effort to screen positive reviews (which could possibly be provided by the personal friends of a lawyer). It is my understanding that the only way that Avvo actually verifies positive evaluations is to let the lawyers challenge such reviews. On the other hand, Avvo routinely intercedes with negative reviews (as well as allowing the lawyer to question such reviews, as happened to me with the Winston-Salem attorney). So, in the case of incompetent, unprofessional, or disreputable lawyers, Avvo does not really provide a platform for consumers to make “better decisions.”

I have had the worst experiences with the AVVO staff, they waste much of your time and give statements back that make no sense and not relative to the actual review,,

I hired Robert Ritacca him and his son Robert Jr out of Waukegan IL. For a bogus case a lady put on me in Jan of this yr. An within a few months he beat the case for me an got all charges dismissed. They even fought for me when I wasn't present. They are also getting my case expunged from my record. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND This law firm they are definitely my go to in ANY SITUATION. Safe to safe I am a Very Satisfied client.

Apparently police can do whatever they want to do. I was arrested for a "warrant" held four days and extradited. On the 4th day pulled from cell by jail captain and told sorry we made a mistake you should have never been arrested. No lawyers have contacted me. So I guess the police just have to say sorry and that's good enough. If I snatched someone from their car and held them for 5 minutes with good reason sorry wouldn't cut it. 4 days my family called the other county who was saying they didn't have a warrant out for me. But still they came and picked me up and took me to their jail. Treated me like I did something wrong. When it was them doing wrong. How is sorry suppose to be good enough. Where are the lawyers at.