I do not recommend Marble Law
I do not recommend Marble Law, and specifically Erica Larson, based on how our adoption case was handled. We paid Marble thousands of dollars to handle what should have been a straightforward adoption case. Instead, we lost a year of time and eventually had to hire another attorney and basically pay all over again just to get our case back on track. One of the biggest problems was that Erica did not seem to know what steps actually needed to be completed or how to complete them. At one point, she instructed us to try to obtain something that we later learned we were not even authorized to receive the results of ourselves. It was something our attorney was supposed to request and handle. Waiting on a letter back stating that we weren’t even authorized to complete this wasted over a month. Our new attorney was able to identify what needed to be done and complete the required steps after taking over the case. There were also serious issues with our Marble client portal. Documents belonging to another Marble client were uploaded into OUR portal. These were not our documents with incorrect information on them. They were another client’s documents entirely. That alone was extremely concerning to me considering these are private legal matters. A significant amount of required steps in our case were also left undone. Communication was frustrating, we were constantly trying to figure out what was happening with our own case, and eventually the court gave us a deadline to get new counsel and get things moving. Then came the refund dispute.- After we terminated Marble and hired another attorney, Marble offered us only $920.75 back despite how much we had paid and how much work was still left undone. We disputed the refund amount. During that dispute, Erica told Marble that she had completed a particular step in our case and claimed the fee for completing it. That step had not actually been completed. Our new attorney had to complete it after taking over. Yet Erica’s statement that she had already done the work was used in determining how much of our money Marble kept. We provided information showing why we believed that was incorrect, and Marble still denied our refund dispute. That part especially bothered me because this wasn’t just a disagreement over whether we were happy with the service. We were disputing being charged for work that, based on our case records and what our new attorney subsequently had to do, was not done. This was our daughter’s adoption. We trusted our attorney to know the process, complete the required legal work, protect our information, and keep our case moving. Instead, we ended up stressed, months behind, under pressure from the court to find new representation, and paying another attorney thousands of dollars to straighten everything out. Thankfully, once we hired new counsel, things started actually getting completed and our case began moving forward. We have completed in one month what Marble law was hung up on for 7 months. I can only speak to what happened in our case, but after our experience with Marble Law and Erica Larson, I would absolutely not use them again. If you are currently using Marble, especially for something as important as an adoption, I would strongly suggest checking your court docket yourself and asking for proof that each required step has actually been completed.