Lane M. Turturice Esq. - Washington, PA

I absolutely do not recommend retaining this attorney. I am an attorney myself and would never treat a client like this. We (my husband, mother-in-law, and I) retained Mr. Turturice after a recommendation from a fellow lawyer. However, after paying the retainer and copying all of our paperwork and dropping it off at his office, he never followed up once on the case. After speaking to him after several weeks had gone by, he had no information, but said he would email me at the end of the week. Never heard from him again. After a few weeks, I called just to ask what the status was and was told he would get back to me. Called a week after that after hearing nothing. Was told the same thing. Made two or three additional calls and never spoke to him. After telling his assistant that I was an attorney and was growing inpatient with no responses from him (all I wanted to know was if there were any status updates), his assistant scheduled a phone meeting with us. We were on vacation, but wanted to meet with him regardless because of how important it was for us to keep an appointment (and because we would all be together and he insisted that all three of us be on the phone for the meeting). Less than an hour before the appointment, he canceled last-minute (due to our own unforeseen circumstances, we were leaving vacation that day and had waited to get on the road until after our appointment with him, which was scheduled at 10AM). His assistant told us he was in trial. When we spoke again a few minutes later, she said he had a family emergency, totally inconsistent with what she originally said. During that latter conversation, she indicated he would be returning our retainer. She said it would be in the mail the following week. I called that following Friday and she said she did not know when it would be sent out and had not yet done so. Extremely disappointed in this attorney's "services." If he did not want to take the case, he should not have taken it after consulting with us. Completely unprofessionalism.