Lance A. Riddle Law Office

Amanda Lotspeich is money hungry and will ill advise you in her favor. She bills for every email sent(regardless of whether it was necessary or not), every phone call, and even for sending letters in the mail to myself and to opposing council when they practiced in a close proximity. $100 for a 30 minute phone call where nothing was accomplished. She once sent me an email including some documents that needed to be filled out per discovery. One of the attached documents hadn’t loaded properly. When she eventually realized (after the due date of my discovery) that we were missing a document, she immediately blamed me for not ever turning it in. AND THEN she proceeded to bill me $20 for sending that one line email which was a result of her own incompetence in the first place!! She does not have children so I know that she can’t possibly understand what it feels like to have her 9 month old baby ripped away from her after she had been a stay-at-home mother with her child over the course of their entire life. After about a month of her representation, it wasn’t difficult to tell that she was clearly not on my side when it came to this case. She even gave opposing counsel information prior to any hearings that they would later use against me in court. When I told her that I no longer wanted her representation, she submitted a document to the court stating that she was “Withdrawing as council due to *my* inability to comply with litigation requirements.” I assume this was due to the missing discovery that she believed I had intentionally failed to submit for whatever reason she may have had. I don’t need to explain how damaging this was if you are aware that she worked in the same law office as judge Kati Roach up until 2022, 1 year prior to my case occurring. The reason for my failure to provide the document, which, when she emailed me about, she referred to in legal terms (that no practical attorney should ever expect a person who doesn’t obtain a degree in law to know), was again, a result of her INCOMPENTENCE. She did not explain to me what document she was requesting, nor did she do her due diligence to ensure that I could locate this document, as I had not actually received it. She could have re-attached the document to the email, but she preferred to email back-and-forth so that she could, yet again, bill me as well as blame me for not submitted the requested documents (all because she couldn’t admit that she had made a mistake, which resulted in discovery being submitted after the deadline, so she decided to let her PAYING client take the blame instead of her own reputation taking a hit.) It is impossible for me to include every complaint I could recall about Amanda, so I will just leave this here and you may take from it what you will. Just know that it is now two years later and I still only see my son 4 days a month. I have all the reason in the world to believe that Amanda negatively impacted the outcome that allowed my son to be ripped away from me, regardless of the fact that I switched attorneys very early into the case. She advised me on hugely impactful decisions towards my case. And just to give you an idea of the money-suck that this law firm is, I was billed $13,000 over a period of 3 MONTHS. My new attorney charged me close to half of that over 9 Months including 2 trial days, one lasting from 9:30am-5:00pm, and the other lasting for about 3 more hours. I will just leave it at that for now.