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Rao & Pierce, LLC is a law firm with an office in Seattle, WA. At this office location, there are 2 lawyers practicing business law, civil litigation, family law and 4 other areas of law.
Mr. Rao, was a great lawyer. He got a settlement that took a lot of stress from me. The firm also wrote my will and my DNR. I would, and have, recommend him.
Among life’s mistakes, I’ve made some doozies. The second biggest one? Hiring Christopher Rao of Beacon Attorneys. After I retained Christopher, I learned he’d recently fallen out with his legal partner (hence the name change from “Rao and Pierce”). In the transition, the support staff were in flux and disarray. Early on, his team neglected to file critical documents. They made an embarrassing factual error about my son. To my repeated requests they were often nonresponsive. I harangued them for months to complete my will. Throughout, we let opposing counsel drive a simplistic narrative. “We’re keeping our powder dry”, Christopher would tell me. He did object to the judge about OC’s page counts… Our court orders? all drafted by OC. We lost and we lost, and each time Christopher declared some small victory. And he’d regularly criticize me. “I’m tough on my clients”, he’d tell me. Regularly I wondered if I’d hired an adversary, not an advocate.
It has been over 15 years since I dealt with this law firm, and Today I am still dealing with the incompetence from them loosing the only copy of a trust that I had. Despite my adamant request it be cared for. Phone calls and emails went days without being returned. They were rude and uncaring. Finally I went to the office and requested ALL my records. Christopher came to talk to me in the lobby and REFUSED to give me my papers. Insisted and assured me they would be at my new attorney’s office for the appointment. They were not. It took weeks. After leaving Rai & Pierce, I learned MY attorney Katie, had violated my trust and shared our strategy with my husband’s attorney. After learning that I was leaving, they billed me for added services so they could bleed out my retainer. Divorces are really hard. One needs an attorney one can trust— not an adversary. Eventually had an attorney pursue my missing docs-Rao & P sent me confidential docs of several others
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