Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke, LLC

Do not hire this law firm. I wish I could just give a singularly scathing review to Dawn Marie White, but the issues that I have unfortunately experienced are widespread amongst the entire Law Firm staff. They do not communicate with you. They do not put your mind at ease when you have questions. All answers they give are vague, unclear, and are not something to write home about. They do not discuss what they plan to do about your case. They do not send you monthly case update letters. They will not contact you via your preferred means. They will not represent you in person most of the time. They will send untrained lackeys with no experience on your case to represent you at court without notifying you until the substitute shows up 15 minutes late. They do not advise you properly. Most importantly, they do not resolve your case in a timely manner or tell you how long your case will take. They will not help you, they will only cause you more head and heartache. Hiring this law firm means that you will ignored, neglected, and give lack luster performance.

Dawn has been with me through some of the lowest points in my life and has always been there ever since when I need her. Thank you!

My review is for Dawn Marie White. Is there a zero stars option? You should hire her if you like to be misunderstood, talked down to, and ignored, all while paying her handsomely. Dawn Marie is not competent for the position she is in. She is currently a court appointed parenting coordinator, to help with making timely decisions about parenting that would otherwise go to court. My ex and I pay her the price of a normal lawyer so that we don't clog up the court over something the judge sees as frivolous (A FATHER'S PARENTING TIME IS NOT FRIVOLOUS). That would also take forever and then there'd be no decision due to it being a moot point, water under the bridge. So far I've paid Dawn Marie White $5000 and literally all she's done is tell me what she's not going to do. My $5000 retainer is gone and there are zero court orders or official decisions that came of it. Now she wants me to pay her more and she's ignoring me until I do, I assume.

When we first met, she wanted to meet via video call and then she made us turn our camera on but she left hers off. I should have known she'd be horrible from the first meeting. Since then I've just asked for equity in parenting time for things like dividing school holidays evenly. Currently, we go by the IPTG which does not divide the non-school days fairly between the two parents in my school district. There are administrative leave days and snow make up days that serve as holidays to the children, but those all go to the mother because the IPTG doesn't mention those days. When I asked Dawn Marie to do something about it and give me half the days that the children are out of school, she said she'd make decisions on a case by case basis (code for "I'm piecemealing your billable time so I can charge you more and deplete your retainer faster"). Then when I asked her at the time when the children were going to be out, she said it was too late and that I should have asked earlier. So yeah...buyer beware.