David F. Stoddard Law Firm

Mar 14th, 2024

Amazing attorney and consummate professional!
Jan 14th, 2024

I paid David to represent me in a child custody case and realized pretty quickly that it was a mistake. During the time that I was working with David, I didn't know what was going on in my case. I felt like I was asking a lot of questions to understand what I was going through and what was coming up and didn't receive adequate answers. He would tell me just to be myself and tell the truth. That is great advice, but something I would do anyways. I felt very unprepared walking into everything I did. I ended up using the internet and my therapists (who specialized in therapy for family issues) advice more than anything. After about 10 very silent months, I changed counsel to an amazing attorney in Greenville instead. My new attorney reached out to David many, many times to get the documents they needed from him. He never got back to them with it. He also did not file several documents to the court on my behalf when he should have. I only know this because my new attorney had to do things that should have been done by David 10 or more months prior. I am not usually someone to leave a review, but David Stoddard was not any help to me at all. I wouldn't want anyone else going through something as life-changing as divorce or child custody using David as their attorney. I wish I had known this prior to me hiring him.
Dec 1st, 2023

David was always answered my calls and was very patient with my many many questions. He helped my son in a situation that didn't look too much in my son's favor. He got his felony dropped to a misdemeanor and he asked got time served instead of probation. This was an extremely long 13months. Thank you so much!!! So appreciate you
Oct 13th, 2023

David will answer your calls but he doesnt do a good job with drafting pleadings, keeping notes on hearings to put in purposed orders agreed by parties accuracy is very important I believe. I was left vulnerable for 3 months while my spouse was able to destroy my property and also things was left out that could have kept me and my children more stable and protected from the start. He also had to amend the court order and file another motion to do so and charged me more to correct his mistake of leaving out the very most important things that me and my children needed to make sure that we wasnt left unprotected while the case was pending. I do believe things could have been different if notes would have been taken by him during hearings so that it would have been outlined for drafting purposes on purposed orders sent to the judge to sign off on. I hope things change and I can be able to change my rating but it hasnt been too good so far given what I have been thru. I think him having a paralegal to help draw up documents and good note taking at hearings could make a difference.
Sep 16th, 2023