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2/19/25 |
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Once Elaine has made up her mind, no amount of evidence (be it from other professionals, witnesses, or recordings/documents) will change it. She is willing to put children in dangerous situations--just to get the outcome she personally wants. I would steer clear of her. I'm personally glad that my own case has been resolved, so I'll never have to see or hear from her in the future.
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12/25/24 |
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Ms Seifert is great. Gives me everything I want against my ex. My ex is an awful woman and using mediation against her, I’ve gotten almost all my demands. Highly recommend.
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12/20/24 |
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Terrible arbitrator. Incredibly biased. Acts like a dinosaur when it comes to her decisions, stuck in the past. Will not read reports or evidence. Blames lawyers for her own mistakes. Cannot warn anyone enough to stay away. Do not know how she can sleep at night with what she does to people.
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5/7/24 |
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She was terribly biased and promotes conflct to complicste the work and increase her involment/ fees. We used for mediation and then arbitration only because our mediation agreement also said arbitration so we got roped into using her for both. She was always looking for ways to insert herself in the settlement work (helping to get property evaluations etc) so we would have to pay her ridiculous rate. Aweful experience.
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10/26/21 |
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Stay away. My Ex and I used Elaine in 4 mediation sessions. The first one was not bad the next three she played favourites, always with my ex. At the end of the last session she laughed and apologized for being hard on me and claimed she was a grumpy old woman. She is not impartial, she picks sides and you know it within a vey short time. Best too avoid her altogether.
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8/27/21 |
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She seemed extremely bias. She seemed quite take that my ex was a Doctor. He was missing meeting with our parrenting cordinator and Elaine came up with excuses for him. It seem that instead of mediating, that she was just an extra lawyer working with my ex. She was interested in looking at current and valid evidence. She already has made up her mind before even seeing evidence. The entire process felt unprofessional. Elaine would also argue with the parties involved in a way that creates more conflict. It seemed like she needed more learning on how to manage stressful situations. Her bias was so strong that it didn’t feel like mediation. She was not finding solutions that were in the best interest of all the parties involved.
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2/13/20 |
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I had an excellent experience with Elaine. She acted as mediator/arbitrator on my very difficult, high conflict, heavily litigated parenting/property/spousal/income determination file. We booked 5 days. Elaine had us out of there in 3 without having to arbitrate on any matter, she was able to get us to a resolution via mediation only. My hat is off to her. She seemed to understand the personalities she was working with and frankly, was brilliant. I cannot comment on her arbitrated decisions because thankfully, it didn't have to go there. One of the areas I think she really excels at is with the financial calculations. I would have never predicted she could help us resolve things the way she did.
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9/26/19 |
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Similar experience for me. I supported everything with evidence and most of what I submitted was ignored....not even mentioned in the award. My ex told stories with no evidence at all and her claims were accepted. This lawyer decides what she thinks the outcome should be and makes the award fit her personal agenda. Doesn't follow legal process AT ALL.
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4/13/18 |
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I had the same experience as the other user. She refuses to follow the law. Allows parental alienation at whatever cost to the kids so long as the father is hurt. She is unprofessional, a thief, refuses to follow the law, and only cares about ruining the mans life. She should be in jail,
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11/20/17 |
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She was aware of the child abuse and chose to side with the abuser, and would only allow testimony from the ex's lawyer family, despite all the abusers sisters had to say. she is capable for child abuse and should be in jail. don't trust her, she hates men and just wants to use her power ti make men suffer she is culpable for not only destroying childrens lives but professional misconduct and profiteering off of others unfortunate. Elaine, you should be ashamed of yourself, your professional help has hurt more families than it has helped
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