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I hired Cordell and Cordell to represent me in a horrific battle for custody of my 14 year old son. I live in the Austin Tx area and the case was in Farmington New Mexico which is 3 hours north of Albuquerque where the closest Cordell firm was located.

Initially the attorney I had was great he handled business and got me full custody of my son. A week after the custody case my attorney left Cordell and Cordell and went to another firm there in Albuquerque. When I finally got to talk to him he indicated the reason he was leaving the firm was he didn't agree with their (Cordell and Cordell) accounting practices. He stated I could go with him to his new firm but it would be another 10 thousand for a retainer.

Considering I had already spent close to 30 thousand in legal service in less than 8 month I made the mistake and stayed with Cordell, since all that was left in my case was to finish up with the child support and a hearing was already scheduled less than 2 months away. That was the worst thing I could have done the new attorney was incompetent she rescheduled court date and drag the case out for close to 10 month. When we final got into court she showed up with a spread sheet and unprepared the courts ended up rescheduling the hearing for a later date. These pissed me off because I had drive 14 hours and paid another 5 thousand dollar for her to make the 6 trip.

By this time the customer care representative and I were on a first name bases because I had to call them so many time to get an update on my case, due to the attorneys inability to return my calls or respond back to my emails. After another phone conference the lead attorney, at my expense, they change my representing attorney again. After paying for a third attorney to get up to speed on the case, it took a long 4 month to get another hearing schedule. During this time I had to stay in constant contact with the customer care department to get any movement out of the Albuquerque firm they wouldn't return phone calls or emails I spent more time trying to get them to do something than what it was worth.

When we got to court the Cordell attorney showed up with several large 3 ring binder full of copies of my monthly children's support payment that had been made to my sons mother since the battle had began in 2010. The court hearing was a disaster. My son mother was representing herself she showed up to court with no evidence, at one point the judge gave a 45 min recess so that she could go print of copies for evidence without even an objection from my representation. In the 3 ring binder was copies of each months pay stub proving that the monthly payments had been made.

To make it even easier for them all child support payment had been garnished from my paychecks monthly dating back to the original order in 2010. The court hearing was a disaster Cordell's incompetent lawyers cost me over 55 thousand dollar. The original back child support amount was only 56,000 back in 2010 and all payments were made by garnishments of 580 a month. Within a week Phyllis my attorney have the order from the court and she needed to write it up.

In order to get Phyllis to complete the order it took another confrence with customer care and the lead attorneys to tell her to get it done and it still took her 2 months to do it. The order she wrote up was a bias order where my child support went up $100 a month and she didn't account for any payments being made on my behalf. More than once I had to ask myself who she was working for. The action displayed by both Phyllis MacCutcheon and Camille Pedrick both current attorneys with Cordell & Cordell was both unethical and clearly malpractice.

Not to mention their accounting practices I have found several mistakes where they double bill me for things that they didn't do.

All I can say if you find yourself in a position where you are dealing with the a bias court system and you need help Cordell & Cordell is NOT the firm you want to call!! They will capitalize on your time of weakness, rip you off, and help destroy what faith you had in the legal system.

Reason of review: Bad quality.

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Same thing happened to me. Starting life over at age 51.

Unfortunate to see men continue to use this firm.

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