Hobson & Hobson, PC

My divorce went so smoothly it was amazing. They got me the house and full custody of the kids. They listened, performed, and got all the results they said they would.

Do not waste your time talking with this firm. They will promise you the world and turn-around and do exactly what they said they wouldn't do. They will nickel and dime you to death with ridiculous charges. They will ensure everyone in their firm gets a piece of any retainer you put up. I hired them to do a simple uncontested divorce. They produced 1 document and 28 days after hiring them, my invoice was over $3000. They were charging me for a bunch of pointless meetings, charges from the paralegal claiming it took an hour to upload blank template documents to their system. When I complained, their excuse is that's how long it takes. A bunch of frauds!!! The entire firm!!! Don't believe a word they say. Do your research and read their other reviews. Don't fall for the fake ones!!!

Don't go with this law firm. The fees and charges are astronomical. For simple divorce cost $12,000. And my attorney with drew at the end because I did not want to pay 5k in mediation fees.

Have used Maddox + Maddox before. Totally suggest looking elsewhere for representation.

Would not recommend this firm. It took about a year for my case to go in front of the judge. Throughout that time, I spent at the most a total of 4 hrs with my attorney, excluding the mediation. And of course the 3k price tag for breathing on the zoom call for mediation. There was zero strategy going into my case. All that the attorney did was just respond to the other attorney. The fees are absolutely exorbitant. Hobson knows how to fully take advantage of those who are going thru a divorce. Zero support and zero sympathy. For men, would recommend attorneys who specialize in men cases. At least you will possibly have a fighting chance.

I wish I'd read these reviews before we retained Hobson & Hobson. Everything everyone else has said is true. They do a bait and switch. You pay to meet with Chris during the consult who tells you that you have a great case and yes let's do it. He makes you feel great about your odds and your situation. You talk with Stacy who gives you an estimate so you can get a range and know what it might cost you, then they make you sign something saying they didn't give you any estimates and that contains a completely different hearing retainer than what she mentioned in said consultation.

Then, you pay the retainer and have your strategy meeting. In your strategy meeting you are met with the actual person on your case who doesn't know anything about your case yet, and as you start to tell him, he does not at all believe in your odds. Then as you start repeating things that he clearly wasn't listening to the first time or two, he starts to say "OK yeah maybe you have a case, tell me more stuff like this". Our strategy meeting was scheduled for an hour we ended up spending 90 minutes because he wrote so slow and in general was very slow. I'm not dumb, Im a corporate senior leader and I work with attorneys daily. I've never met an attorney like this. He said things like AND I QUOTE "Yeah, we can do that and stuff like that." Do WHAT?! I literally wrote it in my notes with a giant question mark. He spoke but wasn't saying anything. Part of the strategy meeting we got charged for he was talking about his girlfriend who works in real estate and the real estate market which has absolutely nothing to do with our case, but of course we had to pay for that glorious conversation.

Then, after mulling over the strategy meeting and how it went, we decided not to pursue our case further. We did not believe this attorney would be the one who would successfully represent us. We felt played. They definitely pulled a bait and switch on us putting Chris on the front lines and then turning us over to an attorney who did not believe in our chances and possibly wasn't even equipped to handle the case. We emailed the attorney directly and told him to please cease work on our case. The next billing cycle we received an invoice for work done the next day and even up to 10 days after we asked them to stop working on our case to the tune of $2,100. We agreed that we should pay the amount for work that was done up until our email asking them to stop, but we asked for credit for the work that was done after that email was sent. Chris responded in a very curt and rude manner and they did not credit us for those amounts. They took it out of our retainer and mailed us the remainder. DO NOT waste your time or hard-earned money here. You'll end just like the rest of us writing this same review.

If I could, I would provide no stars. Read the negative reviews, and take them seriously. Once again, the firm has lost another attorney who they so glowly raved about since he was a retired judge. We were less than impressed from the beginning. Yet, Chris was the one who told us we were in great hands, and he would personally make sure we were well taken care of. Every conversation we had with John, the retired judge who was assigned by the firm, was basically the same conversation over and over, which - you guessed it - it were billed for. Every email was essentially the same email, which you guess it again, we were billed for all of those redundant emails as well. When it came time for court, John was completely unprepared, and I had to resend documents. The judge actually stopped court to allow him to get these documents. During his chat right before court, it was as if he had never spoken to us before, and we were once again having the same conversation. As an attorney by background, I even had to constantly email them to check on the status of the case and remind them of tasks that needed to be completed. I even had to proofread a horrendous draft response by John that had numerous grammatical errors and misspellings. We even had to loop in Chris in to try to get something done. Keep in mind we are being charged for all of this redundancy and the work we were doing/the follow ups we had to do in order to get John to do anything. Now, John is no longer with the firm and both Susan, Firm Administrator, and Leah said they would make this right. We only learned of John departure after sending an email to Chris because of the embarrassing appearance John made in court. (Court was on Friday. We sent the email after court laying out all the issues with the firm's representation, and on Monday we received an email saying John was no longer with the firm. They also said they would not bill us for the work John did since he was unprepared. Unprepared and didn't have all the items we provided yet billed over 3 hours of "trial prep")

Susan went as far as to say the billing was vague, and she could not tell what was billed for and what was not Chris's response - he would give us a $2k credit IF we stayed with the firm. So $15k+ with us doing a lot of the work and seeing very little to no results and that is how you're going to make it right? The firm, specially Susan, has now become hostile and outright rude because we have made it clear that they have lost all of our confidence. They are now going back on their word and trying to bill us for items that they previously acknowledged they would not given John, who is no longer with the firm, billed and was unprepared/overbilled. They are also claiming they had no idea there were problems despite us keeping record of all the emails and calls to Chris. (As you can imagine, Chris will not respond to any of them.) If this sounds like your experience, file a complaint with the GA Bar. This is unacceptable.

I met with Mr. Hobson for a consoltation that we paid for our of pocket. We decided to retain them and then had a strategy meeting, where we met with another lawyer from the firm. After the meeting with her, we decided this was an absolute waste of time and money and that going forward with their services would be completely pointless and offer zero help for my situation. I asked them immediately after to please just charge me what I owed for the strategy meeting, and then received and invoice for $1200 for "meetings" that were never held, or already paid for. This was literally the worst service I could have ever imagined and feel completely snaked by a bunch of scum bags. Please please do NOT let them waste your time and steal your money

I Hired Chris Hobson and his law firm to do a very simple child support case. He shuffled my case 4 times from attorney to attorney in his law firm. I went to mediation and he assigned a young inexperienced attorney to handle my case. NONE of the objectives that I wanted to achieve were met, not even the most basic and simplest one, which was to get my 19 year old off my child support. Should've been an easy run. They continued invoicing me for "legal paperwork" and for months NOTHING got handled. After looking at all of my options I decided to cut my losses from this unprofessional and unproductive law firm.
I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS LAW FIRM to anyone, go elsewhere and do your research.
All they want to do is drag you along for your money and NOT accomplish one single objective.

Let me be clear up front that Chris did not represent me (thank goodness) but i was witness to his performance representing my ex-wife. I thought i could never feel sorry for her, but Chris facilitated this in the mist of the time where i had more disdain for her than ever.

Chris showed low energy and ownership in the one event where he did not send loaned lawyers. The correspondences I was copied on demonstrated a very low knowledge an/or understanding of the situation at hand. I could have no lower opinion of a lawyer and that includes the one i fired for far fewer concerns. Again, my opinion comes as a very close observer. As always, make your own decision and decide if this and other opinions have value.

Very good law firm. They made my divorce seamless and didn't bankrupt me in the process. I will use them again if I ever need legal representation again.