Pazdernik Law Office

Rich Pazdernik will take your money and leave you worse off. No communication. Early on I met with Rich and he would ask the same questions as if hearing the case for the first time. He never understood it and mixed up names and details in his filings. Rich quickly turned into a ghost. I documented calling him 18 times over two months before he talked to me for a couple of minutes. I was kept in the dark for months at a time. Rich never answers questions. He ignores you and does what he wants. Rich will miss deadlines. I had to call and demand Rich file the Appearance and Answer to my case the day before it was due. I could have lost my case by default. Ignores Conflicts of Interest. Rich was negligent in checking for conflicts of interest before taking my case. Rich waited 6 months then quit my case because he discovered he previously worked for the guy who is suing me. Excessive fees. I had to demand a billing 4 times and it took him 25 days to produce. Rich agreed to work for $250/hour but he billed me at $300/hour. He has billing entries for when he was out of town on vacation. It's also a strange that his billing matches the retainer that I paid him. Rich left me in the lurch. He quit on me 10 days before Pretrial. He said he would find a replacement attorney and never did. I had to file my own Motion for Continuance to avoid trouble with the court. New attorney agrees Rich did not provide competent service. I was told the work he did is full of mistakes and done incorrectly. I regret going to Rich Pazdernik, he has caused stress and wasted my time and money. Before writing this review I talked to Rich in good faith about a refund or partial refund. He just gaslights me. Ethics complaints have been filed against Rich to the Iowa Attorney Disciplinary Board.

Pazdernik has done some serious job... After all, he gives deferred judgments, even when there was no probable cause for E-X-T-O-R-T=I-O-N. As for a legal defense, you're better off defending yourself, that is, if you even are issued a summons. So how do you defend yourself from a crime you did not commit, when in an orange jacket? Get a real lawyer, like Mathahs. Take them out for racketeering. They constantly create delinquent debt cases even without crimes. They report people wrong, commit perjury and fraud without any real defense for themselves. If they've tried you wrongly, report them to the DOJ and FBI. 5 stars for reading.

From the time we went into his office he was very attentive, listened to what we wanted, and gave us all our best options. He went above and beyond everything we were expecting. I will recommend him to anyone I know that needs an attorney.

We really felt as though he was in it to win it. Great people skills.

Rich answers the phone and does as much as he can.