Nolo for lawyersReviews of nolo.com

I agree with the others who have complained about the quality of the leads. The leads are horrible, and nearly all of them are impossible to reach because they are not interested in being reached, and have no interest in hiring a bankruptcy lawyer. A large number of the "leads" have less than $5,000 in debt, so they are not people you would generally put in bankruptcy anyway, at least not on a paying basis. An equally large number put down income of less than $1,000 per month, so there is no way they are going to come up with a fee. This would be a great site if you were trying to fill your days with pro bono cases. But even that wouldn't work, because you can never reach anyone anyway. And they rarely agree to give you credit, no matter how bad your experience. If you are lucky enough to be reading these reviews before signing up, please take the advice of those who have taken the time to write, and look for better ways to spend your advertising budget.

If I can give them zero stars I would. They are a waste of money. I am kicking myself for not reading any reviews before paying them money. Their leads are garbage. They tout that they have a review process, but they deny so many stuff. Out of the roughly $750 invested at about $30 a lead, I got one case. Everything else is a waste, and it takes time to deal with their system. Advertise elsewhere.

Martindale-Nolo lead referral was a complete waste of money and I can't believe I fell for it. I paid over $1,000 and have not converted a single lead. In fact, 90 percent of the leads I got I could not even contact the lead. When I disputed the lead and requested a credit 90 percent of the time or so the request would be denied. One lead I texted told me that she had only requested information from the site because, "I was super angry last night. I'm not interested in pursuing anything at this time." This lead program has been a complete waste of money, and I'm actually thinking about suing Martindale-Nolo for this fraudulent program.

I used Nolo before for advertising for Bankruptcy, we lost money TWICE. The way it works is NOLO shares leads with other attorneys so it is first come first serve, so many times before you even call a lead, another attorney has called and set up an appointment. The sales person we signed up with made all these promises that NOLO has changed, the representative that we worked with does not work there anymore, the salesperson said there are all these leads and they don't have enough attorneys to fill them, this is the line I was given. Why I fell prey to NOLO again, I am still baffled about it. Why NOT to Hire Nolo 1. Most of the leads are poor quality, either they are spam, picking your brain, have no intentions on hiring an attorney, want to do it themselves, make appointments and never show up, or just have no money to afford an attorney. 2. You are one of a few attorneys who receives the lead 3. When you receive spam leads, you have to be quick about getting credits, it is another accounting task and takes more time away from you generating business. 4. Read your contract NO REFUNDS, they will hold you to the contract no matter how dissatisfied you are. 5. Waste of valuable time, time calling bad leads, time emailing bad leads, time setting up appointments for bad leads and time wasted for no shows. I looked up all the leads we received with other attorneys to see if the leads did retain a Bankruptcy Attorney and filed Bankruptcy and most did not that clearly in my opinion is a good indicator that they are mostly bad leads. With NOLO think about it, you spent countless hours chasing down leads, some are completely bogus, most are just calling to pick your brain, very few hire you, just think of how much time you have wasted when you could put your time generating leads that are NOT SHARED. There will be no third time for me, shame on me for even considering them a second time.

Unreliable, untrustworthy, BS referral DO NOT USE

This lead program is a total fraud. When you call them the people don't even recall filling out anything. Some of them think the services are free. Divorce leads for people that are not getting divorced. Bankruptcy leads for people that don't want to file bankruptcy. It goes on and on. A complete fraud.

I wish I had read some of these reviews before I purchased these "leads". The overwhelming majority of the family law leads that I received were from people who did not have sufficient funds to engage counsel. There is an appeal process to challenge these leads "counting", but frankly that just leads to more bad leads. Most disappointing was that I was assured I could discontinue this whenever I wanted to do so. I figured out pretty quickly this was something I did not want to continue with but I was encouraged to hang in there. It was then that I realized that I had been charged for an automatic monthly renewal. I asked the company to discontinue my service (and keep their next month's leads beyond the few that I received before I realized what had happened), but they took my additional almost $500 instead knowing full well that I was unhappy with their services. Do not use this company.

Total scam - they send spam emails to people looking for loans and sell them to bankruptcy attorneys - huh? Terrible customer service-owned by KKR which says it all. Run away if you are thinking of purchasing leads from them. We spend $25k/month with them and have to fight tooth and nail over the SPAM we receive.