The O’Meara Law Firm, PC

In December of 2025 I reached out to Anita O’Meara, an estate attorney, to have our wills updated to reflect the laws of our new home in Pennsylvania. We met at the end of December to discuss our estate and what we wanted with regards to our Wills and POAs at the advice and urging of our daughter who is also an attorney but not barred in PA. We provided our prior Wills, medical directives, and general power of attorneys which we expected to be updated to reflect PA statutes, etc..... vs. MD At our 12/29/25 consultation we paid a $2K deposit for production of our revised Wills and POAs. About two weeks into January 2026, I sent an email stating that we were not going to move forward with a Trust, which was $50 of the deposit previously paid, but we still wanted our Wills and POAs. We did not hear back from Atty. O’Meara and sent follow up correspondence about two weeks later. After neither Atty. O’Meara nor her PL/assistant responded, we began to send emails to Atty. O’ Meara (and copied her PL/assistant). After several emails and leaving voicemails, we involved our daughter who is also a lawyer. Our daughter sent an email on February 10, 2026, and got no response so she sent a second email on February 19,2026. In her second email, our daughter advised Atty. O’Meara that if we did not receive a timely response, she would begin a disciplinary complaint to recover our funds, or at the very least the services for which we had rendered payment in December 2025. To our daughter’s correspondence, Atty. O’Meara finally responded on or about February 20, 2026. She attempted to provide an explanation as to her serious delay in responding to our prior attempts to follow up by email or telephone stating a family emergency had been the cause of her delay and unresponsive. At no point prior to our proactive attempts to confirm the status of our updated Wills and POAs/ADs did Atty. O’Meara OR her office staff reach out to us or respond to us to let us know that there might be a delay and the cause of such delay. It was pure radio silence. It was not until our daughter, a non-PA barred attorney, began to reach out on our behalf AND threatened disciplinary review/action that Atty. O’Meara answered her (my daughter’s) correspondence. It took three more emails, and over a month timewise, before I finally received the proposed Wills and POA documents three weeks later. We returned our revisions and remarks on the updated Wills and POAs within 24 hours. We (my spouse and I) met with Atty. O’Meara on March 23, 2026, to review and notarize all our documents. As soon as we began to review the documentation presented to us at this meeting, we noticed an error on the first page of at least one document. When I noticed the error (which seemed substantive to me) she indicated she had permitted her son to draft one half of our documents. She did not appear to have reviewed her non-attorney son’s work product prior to presenting it to clients, let alone clients who were already unsatisfied with her turn-around and response time. This further led us to believe that she did not value our business in the same manner that we valued our hiring of her. Due to her failure to proofread the drafts she delegated to her non-attorney son, we had to return on 30 March 2026. We again had to meet with two of the witnesses to one of our POAs as they had failed to do so in March. It was unprofessional for Atty. O’Meara to go radio silent for almost two months, requiring the intervention of our daughter. At the behest of our attorney daughter, we respected and attempted to understand that there may have been cause for delay in the production of our end-of-life documents. This patience was rewarded with excuses. If you require prompt responses and documentation production, we would not recommend.

We have been trying to reach Anita since December -nearly 3 months with no contact -but you can see she is still posting on LinkedIn. We have paid her in full to handle the creation of our trust, but she does not answer any emails or calls. Happy to change this review, but will be filing a complaint with the Disciplinary Board and also filing all necessary paperwork to try and get back our payment.

I’ve been delaying this review but now I feel I have no choice.
I met with Anita 2 times to have her draft a will/ trust. All communication was great, and I paid in full. I told her I could not be back in state for a while and asked her to mail the final paperwork. She said she would. That was in September 2025 and it is now almost March 2026. She has completely ghosted me. I’ve texted, called and emailed multiple times with zero response. I feel like I have no recourse but to contact the bar association to get this resolved. Absolutely unacceptable and unprofessional. It’s a shame because I really liked her personality and she seems trustworthy.
Anita, if you’re reading this, please change my mind. I’m not the type to trash someone’s reputation but you’ve left me no choice but to rate you unfavorably.

As the owner and operator of a small business identified as Commonwealth Process Services LLC., who supplies Professional Services to the legal industry and private sector, we specialize in the Service of Process in and about Chester County and its surrounding area. In June 2025, our office was contacted by The O'Meara Law Firm regarding a personal service via hand delivery for a simple transaction. A reasonable fee was agreed upon, but after completion of service, and after an extended period of time for payment, our billing invoice apparently fell on deaf ears. Unfortunately, our office was forced to file a small claims action, and after months in limbo, ( 7 months ) the claim was ultimately paid in full shortly before a court hearing date.

We absolutely did not wish to initiate any court action regarding this service request, but we're left with no other recourse based on payment tardiness and communication.

We here at Commonwealth Process Services take absolutely no pleasure in posting such reviews regarding these type of business practices, but leaning towards business transparency, we feel that this post was absolutely necessary.

Regards,
Commonwealth Process Services LLC.