Renee Swanson LLC - Gretna, LA

My husband and I put Ms. Swanson on retainer for a child support and custody case. When he initially met with her for a consult she said she thought he had a good chance of getting what he was asking for. She filed the papers and the other party filed a rebuttal which claimed so many false accusations and was extremely offensive. I was emailed this with zero explanation and no phone call to follow up. I emailed her after calling and not getting a returned call and let her know that was very upsetting to read and I needed someone to explain certain things to me as she was my lawyer and I didn’t not feel she was representing me well. She filed a continuance once then we went to court via zoom once. The other parties lawyer simply wiped the floor with me while Ms Swanson did nothing to defend me. I was yelled at, badgered and accused and had to defense even though she was there. I ended up settling out of court for much less than what I asked because after the call Ms Swanson told me that the other parties lawyer was really good and at that point I had zero faith in her helping me. I had about a 30 minute meeting before that zoom call to go over things, this should have been done a week in advance. My wife provided about 10 pages with of pdfs explaining past instances and exactly what we wanted for custody so we never had to spend time talking about it everything was already in writing, she filed one continuance and we has one zoom meeting for about 1.5 hours that she didn’t do anything for and I ended up settling out of court. This costed me $3,654. I was robbed of good representation and money. I highly suggest finding a lawyer that communicates and is honest with what they are charging you for.