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3/2/23 |
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Deeply concerning lack of progressional standards and understanding of power dynamics and coercive control. Does not respond to calls or requests for assistance. Will argue with client and refuse to remove herself, even when clearly causing harm to client. Does not have updated training on parenting coordination, or issues regarding legal professionals enabling harms to clients and children. She is overly busy and not responsive to client needs, based on my experience and other complaints I have read. Deeply concerning lack of understanding of professional conduct and responsibilities, best interests of child, and lack of training on how to provide trauma-informed, violence-informed and safety-informed training.
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6/22/22 |
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I unfortunately had a very negative experience at Alison Campell‘s law firm with her team as they repeatedly failed to communicate even on urgent matters, at times to correspondences with the opposing counsel. Their lack of support and ability to provide legal service really affected my case negatively. I would highly suggest that you do your research and believe these other comments over many many years and look elsewhere for services.
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8/2/19 |
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I heard about Ms.Campbell from someone associated to the family court system who said that she was well known and well respected. In our first meeting in her office I was struck by her professionalism and attention to detail. I found her to be very open and honest about what I could expect and even when my own expectations were not in line with what she anticipated to be a reasonable outcome. She always delivered this message with grace and kindness. If there was any area I would say I struggled with it would be communication. After talking to many others who deal with lawyers I think it’s likely because I had an unrealistic expectation of how quickly personal attention should be given to my matters. I imagine this is a tough balance for any legal professional but admittedly I do wish my correspondence could always receive a response within hours. I would recommend Ms.Campbell to anyone without hesitation knowing that she is smart, fair, hard working and genuinely cares.
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6/26/19 |
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I started my case in Summer 2017 with her after I and my child fled my abusive husband . Never available to get answers to my questions. Hid evidence from me (CAS disclosure, recordings etc my ex filed). I was kept in the dark about most of the opposing side's communications. We could have easily won the case but she didn't listen to me. 6 months later she started speaking in favour of my ex at motions. After she did it at 2 hearings, I emailed her several times asking why she would do that. She never responded. I had to pay costs because of her disloyalty. After I changed her, my ex was not successful. My ex's lawyer lies in front of the judges. When I brought it to her attention she kept defending him. Me and my child are still paying the price for her misdoings. I am not mad at her but feel very sad.
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6/13/19 |
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I have hired this lawyer for my family court case. She was late on all the court filing and cost me thousands of dollars that are unjustified.I had to change lawyer because I was going nowhere with her. Stay away from this lawyer.
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9/29/18 |
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Communication is a challenge, Alison was always too busy to take calls or answer emails. It took her months to start my family court application, and another several months for the case conference. Prior to the case conference the only instruction I was given is not to expect anything to change, however the junior lawyer replacing Alison that day appeared to have no knowledge of my situation, which led to a very poor outcome for my kids and I. You are just a file with bank account attached, and not a priority for her. I would recommend looking elsewhere (as I am now).
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5/5/18 |
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I am shocked at the other ratings on here. It definitely took awhile to finish my case, but that was not her fault. I was recommended to see her from a friend and I could not have been happier with how my case was handled. She really took the time to understand my situation and always told me her opinion, whether it was what I wanted to hear or not. When we went to court, it was made clear that every letter she sent and every court form we made was an important piece to our case. I would, and have, recommended Alison to my friends.
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5/3/18 |
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Ours was a straightforward collaborative separation. After three successful months, just before our final meeting with the other side, Alison cancelled the meeting, stopped answering emails, and basically disappeared. Two months later she got back to me, told me everything could be settled between lawyers by phone which would save money. She then cancelled phone call after phone call. They would be rescheduled months later, always requiring a "catch-up" call with me beforehand ($!). I soon realized these were to remind her of my file. After, I would learn she hadn't remembered to raise issues that needed to be discussed. After a year, we still needed to have that final meeting with the other side. I signed the final separation agreement without reviewing much of it with her because she wasn't available. The exercise took two years to complete instead of three months & cost much more than it should have. She made an already stressful and difficult experience far worse.
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1/4/18 |
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Took weeks and months to hear from her, would get paper work with errors and names of other people on it.
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10/1/15 |
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I found her to be amazing... She was very informative, I have a very complex situation going on with 2 separate fathers and she gave me very sound advice and has been very helpful through the whole process very smart lady in my opinion I was so surprised to see so many negative posts about her..
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3/24/15 |
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Very lazy lawyer. I ended up doing most of the work. She was always too busy and never returned my calls until weeks later. Not prepared in court. She just cares about getting her money. Low value. Stay away
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7/9/14 |
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Likeable and appears knowledgeable. Reasonable rates and efficient with her time. But difficult to reach, rarely meets deadline commitments, and in retrospect provided poor advice that cost a lot in legal fees and court costs.
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5/23/14 |
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Alison Campbell promises the moon and puts on a good show before a judge however she is not fully prepared. She is very complacent and did not give me good advice. She would let me do what I thought should be done however I now realize it was all a waste of my time and money! It got me nowhere. A good lawyer would have said settle, don't waste your money on this. I changed lawyers.
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3/5/13 |
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Very frustrating experience; while she seems knowledgeable and inspires confidence during initial consultation (enough to make you pay the initial fees which to some people are significant) what follows is in my opinion a terrible, extremely frustrating experience; starting with poor communication (always thru her assistant, rarely directly even when I insisted to talk to her in person) , always busy with other more important cases, simple documents that require review and minor changes can take months to be delivered (when the agreed/ promised deadline is two weeks) ..and even after a lot of struggle the doc is poorly written and missing important information (I feel that my case was passed on around the block to jr. staff that were not in the loop or simply ignored the most important points; Note that my case was a simple review of very amicable separation draft already prepared by my ex lawyers. Cannot imagine putting my life in her hands if situation had required it.NOT RECOMMENDED
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