Silicon Valley Law Offices

I do not recommend hiring the lawyer Mr. Michael Pascoe, who works at this law firm – and this is coming from a lawyer.

For context, I rarely post reviews and up until this review, all of them were 5 star reviews because it can be hard to run a business and I have real sympathy for business owners. However, a recent conversation with some friends inspired me to post my first and likely only negative review on Google – I’m speaking up because picking a meal is one thing, picking a lawyer you’re spending thousands of dollars on is another. People can have a hard time finding a great lawyer at an affordable price, especially as it’s hard for them to evaluate the quality of legal representation, and I hope my perspective can help out those that are looking.

First, some background on my interactions with Mr. Pascoe: my partner and I were looking for lawyers to draft a prenup – I hired one lawyer based on a reddit rec while my partner hired Mr. Pascoe. However, we both agreed that if given the choice again, my partner would never have hired Mr. Pascoe.

I’ll refrain from going into detail on everything I saw that concerned me, but suffice it to say that I would not recommend Mr. Pascoe to anyone based on what I saw of the prenup drafting, his interpretations of the law, how long it took to get things done, and more. Here’s just one example of a major problem in the prenup drafting - Mr. Pascoe (or someone working at his direction) had removed and then inserted clauses into the prenup that actively hurt their own client’s financial interests. In a few different places, their revised prenup stated that after marriage our assets would be community property rather than separate property – what this meant was that my partner, who makes more money than I do, would have had his post-marriage income, stocks that vested to him, his retirement money, and more split 50/50 with me in the event we both divorced rather than considered his own separate property which I was not entitled to. This was not what either of us wanted (plus if we wanted that, it’s the default in CA so there would be no need for a prenup), and I was genuinely astonished that Mr. Pascoe’s revision changed the correct delineation of these assets as separate property in the original prenup draft my lawyer sent to Mr. Pascoe. If I were to be charitable, perhaps they would have caught this massive error in the second (and last) revision they made – however, I’m doubtful they would have noticed an error of 3 words in a 20 plus page document given other errors I saw in their revisions (including their last one).

Again, I emphasize that my review is specific to Mr. Pascoe. Every lawyer is different and this review is not meant to be about lawyers whose legal work I’ve obviously not had the chance to see.

Hopefully my experience and perspective will be helpful to anyone who reads this review.

Michael and his team did a great job.

i selected michael as my attorney with the misleading reviews online. while he promised a very strong defense at the beginning, he disappeared and a woman in his office, named Evelyn R., came to picture and michael disappeared. they destroyed my case. my opponenet took out child out of town when i had visitation time, and instead of filing to "contempt of court order" - which could get my opponent in jail - they forced to "collaborate to have a good visibility in front of the judge". they literally wasted 10k of my money for no one single meaningful output. they bad work made me pay much more to my next lawyer and wait way longer for my case to clean up the mess they made