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If you would like to see your hard earned money be wasted away, hire Cordell and Cordell.

The first sign that these people are all about the money should have been clear when I was charged $100 to speak with them. They are professional as can be but you will be charged for every little thing they do and several things they don't.

I made the mistake of giving them a large amount of info to "catch up" on my case and was billed the entire $1800 start out retainer. Which brings me to the retainer. They make it simple to have a credit card on file but they treat that card as if it is Daddy's Wallet. So, you put down $1800 and every week they reconcile your account and when bring your retainer back up to $1800. And when they do this, it is done in several transactions as to not delay getting their money. I have 7 in one week in varying amounts.

And when it comes to get any money back that they overbilled you, forget about it. I was trying to get $3000 back after my trial ended and they said that they don't "refund retainers while they are stilled under agreement". So, I had $4800 sitting in their account and they would not return it and were slowly chipping away at it. Here is how they do it.

Every couple of weeks, you get a "status Letter" concerning your case, like we don't know what is going on in our own case. I get billed for every email and every letter that is sent to meโ€ฆ I know exactly what is going one and if I didn't, a letter that I am paying for the lawyer to write is not going to help, it is only going to demand a phone call that I will be paying for as well.

So, you have all those charges for a lawyer that costs $200 an hour and their assistant costsโ€ฆ.ready for thisโ€ฆ.$150 an hour. I wonder how much the assistant is actually being paid, 50k? So if those charges and fees are not enough, they get you on two other charges a month. They call them "strategy planning meetings". This is where your case is discussed, without you, to someone else at the firm and you pay $88 x two a month for them.

The funny thing about these meetings is that they are the same day every other week and the charge from the lawyer that you hired supervisor is added to your bill at the exact same time twice a month?? This meeting takes place whether there is something going on in your case or not!!

Cordell and Cordell are all about billing and if you want to see your credit card maxed out in no time at all, feel free to hire them!!!

Monetary Loss: $10000.

Location: North East, Maryland

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I am using them now and having the EXACT same results. My divirce is uncontested...

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I posted this several years ago and get a response every once in a while. Sorry to hear that people are still getting ripped off by this firm. I suggest that you find another firm and set the rules up front.

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Very helpful. I was thinking to use them.

But after this story. No way!

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$50k?! Hahahaha!

I am a former Cordell & Cordell.

I WISH we made that much!!!! I always wondered where all my hard-earned billable work was going, because I sure wasn't seeing the $$$!

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