In order to do a rating on a website you are required to give your personal information and email address. In this day and age of privacy, intrusion and incessant advertising requests, we do not believe you should have to give up your personal information.
Please leave your ratings of Campbell O’Hara on our legal question page and if fair we will have our technician insert it on a ratings page without disclosing your email address or personal information.
There are disturbing entries about lawyers on ratings websites. Often if you analyze the complaint, the complaint is that the lawyer refused to take the case. For Louise, that is a legitimate complaint. Louise is one of those lawyers you want to take your case. Louise is one of those lawyers that years later previous clients still give her Christmas presents to show their appreciation for what she did when no one else would help. She gets invited to their remarriage! Louise has and will settle your matter if that is what you can and should do but she will fight it to the Supreme Court of Canada if you are being treated unfairly. She will give compassionate high quality work to those in need of help. She cannot and will not represent everyone or anyone but those she serves are safe and protected.
Louise is a lawyer’s lawyer.
Other lawyers with problems, complaints, difficult matters, come to Louise for advice and understanding.
Large firms do not have matrimonial departments because a significant number of clients in their stages of grief at some point ‘blame the lawyer’ for their predicament (even though the lawyer is not involved until after the predicament is created.) Large firms do not want to risk client loyalty so they refer clients to matrimonial lawyers. The comments you see on ratings websites are often the reflection of the ‘blame the lawyer’ stage of grief. Also consider that people with mental health concerns also tend to have legal problems. Some lawyers do not take such clients but often these are the people with the most need of legal representation. Sometimes the comments reflect the mental health concerns of the writer more than the work of the lawyer. As a firm you cannot respond to such comments or you will enflame the client and cause response.
We have gone through the comments on the rating websites and most of the excellent lawyer we know have vicious comments about them. This may relate to high expectations but remember this is a volatile, intensive and emotional area of the practice of law.
Please use ratings sites with caution and diligence. Everyone resents the lawyer on the other side. That might make them a good lawyer.