Client Reviews
Read with people have to say about me, my office, my staff and how bankruptcy filing has changed their lives. I understand that it’s not easy to talk about the intimate details of your financial life and that’s why I want you to know how other people feel. Remember, if you have any questions that I haven’t addressed you can simply shoot me an email by visiting my contact page.
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In 1998 Nancy in Woodbridge helped through my bankrupcy. I can’t remember
her last name. She was wonderful. Now my son is going through a very rough
time and I’d like to know if she is still working with Mr. Weed.
May I ask what the initial payment is and then the final amount due.
I imagine the cost is more now, but please let me know.
Thank you,
Anne Key
Nancy Ryan, who worked for me for more then ten years, set up her own office in Fairfax, to be closer to her home. You can reach her at:
Nancy Ryan
9689 Main St.
Suite A
Fairfax, VA 22031
(703) 865-4222
I am in financial trouble and through Googling I found this site. However after doing some research I am afraid I do not qualify for bankruptcy. I do not want to waste anyone’s time but was wondering if I qualify for free consultantion on what could be done.
Also during this free consultation, is everything confidential as if there was a lawyer/client priveleged relationship where information divulaged cannot be revealed without explicit authoriziation?
Thank you in advance
Yes, during your consultation you have the right to privacy and confidentiality, whether we take your case or not.
I probably see four people a month who are convinced they can’t be qualified to file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. We ALMOST always find a way to make it work.
A follow up question. When would one see you for free consultation?
I talked to an attorney on the phone, described my situation – he said it is too early because no one is coming after me yet. He told me to call back when TSHTF – when I get summon notices (aka, I am his very very very last resort). His reasoning was because perhaps the bank would not come after me for my 1st and 2nd mortgage.
The problem with waiting until then–you may have eligibility problems. Those eligibility problems might be solved if you had five or six months to work with, but you might not have time. My theory is bankruptcy is not like a car wash. It’s more like surgery. You need to be really clear about why you are going into it; and what you expect out of it. And that can only be done with the complete picture in front of both the client and the lawyer.
That’s why I don’t do telephone consultations.
A second reason to meet with a lawyer and do a complete analysis–you can be eligible to buy a house again two years after the bankruptcy is over. (And three years after the foreclosure.) You can get a car at about 7% interest two or three years after the bankruptcy. Do those things matter to you? (How old is your car now? Do you plan to try to buy a house again?) That’s something you need to go over carefully with your lawyer.
Putting off the bankruptcy means putting off getting back to good credit.
So unlike other attorneys I have spoken to you will actually sit down and plan with me at consultation the road path to bankruptcy if that is where ultimately I end up? Specifically at the consultation if there are potential road blocks you will help me plan around it (most likely by waiting it out or addressing the issue)?
It sounds like from your reviews you have the patience and concern for clients to help them “line their ducks up on a row”. Is that a fair statement to conclude from your website?
Again (for the last time) thank you for your response – I will make time to schedule a consultation in the next few weeks.
Yes, that’s it exactly. Look forward to meeting with you in person.
How does it work?
I called in and got an appointment – I asked if I would be meeting you personally. The reply was it would be with a paralegal.
Would the paralegal vet my document and there would be a second meeting with you [especially if it is a complex situation]?
Since emails do not appear on the blog I have disclosed my email. Also – I’ve been on your website so much to notice a standard installation of IE8 (on XP and Win7) will consistently crash after a viewing a few pages of your website.
You meet first with my paralegal, then with me. We don’t use your hour with me xeroxing paychecks and typing info into the computer. We have all that done before you and I meet. When you and I meet, we talk about whether, and how, bankruptcy can work for you.
Yes, you’ll have a second meeting with me. The meeting with the paralegal is to make sure you and I have everything we need when we meet.