Lightle & Raney LLP

Rude, never return phone calls, least experienced firm. If you're trying to lose your case, I would recommend them. You have a better chance of representing yourself.

I had a pretty bad experience with this law firm. They never return phone calls and it also doesn't feel like she has a back bone. She fails to make you feel she is on your side. I would highly recommend any place than here..

I can't speak of the other lawyers at this firm, but working with Susannah Streit will make your face hurt. If you want your lawyer to advise you on standard procedures and proper strategy, you won't get that from her. She will just forward documents to you without reading them and ask you what you think. After you do some homework and legal study to figure out what you think, and tell her what you think, she won't read or respond to your email for months. If you want to be constantly bombarded with messages from the other side asking you to call your lawyer because their lawyer has been trying to get in touch with your lawyer for weeks and you love the embarrassment of saying, " Yeah me too," then she'll be a perfect fit for you. When she finally does respond to you after months of no contact, she'll want you to drive all the way to her office in Searcy and meet with her in person. You'll spend the first 15 minutes of every meeting watching her read the emails that she never responded to while she tries to catch herself up for the meeting that she scheduled. She'll then tell you that she's sorry and been really busy and the communication will get better; and you can rest assured knowing when you leave it will be another 3 months until you hear from her only after the constant barrage from the other side starts again. When you finally sign and notarize everything it will be another 2 months and when you ask what's taking so long she'll tell you you're waiting on the judge or the ad litem but the truth is you were waiting on her yet again and you'll know it the very next day when miraculously the judge and ad litem and everything that had been holding it up comes through. Long story short if you want to waste 2 years of your life on a cut and dry, open and shut case that never went to court and should only take 6 months, then this is the lawyer for you. If you want one single choke point that will cause a bottleneck that will drag on for months for every process and procedure and form of communication, then look no further. If all of this sounds like you'd rather jump off the empire state building and land on a bike with no seat, then you know what to do...

Horrible lawyer says whatever she can to keep you there but doesn't listen. my advice is to find a lawyer out of State there is no trust in these types of people.

Well established attorneys in White County with long standing tradition of integrity and advocacy. Current Arkansas Governor is a member of this respected firm.