The Law Offices of Aaron J. Lodge - Santa Cruz (CA)

5 /5 Kim Premo: I highly recommend Mr. Lodge. I had a difficult divorce and he was able to negotiate a favorable settlement quickly. He is professional and was always responsive.

5 /5 GPI Builders: My colleague here at work highly recommended Aaron Lodge to start my divorce, so after calling 3 attorneys and firms, I called Aaron Lodge, who is in Santa Cruz (I live in San Jose). I already knew I wanted (needed) to get a divorce, and he was so friendly on the phone and clear about next steps. I really wanted to get started right away because I know it takes like 6 months to get divorced. Within 24 hours Mr. Lodge filed the full divorce. My ex and I later decided to mediate with Mr. Lodge, and we paid $4000.00 as a fixed set price, and after 3 sessions and some emailing after that, Mr. Lodge wrote up a whole divorce judgment and filed it. I was so happy to not have to go to court once, and we saved a lot of money. I recommend his offices, the law offices of Aaron J Lodge fully and completely.

1 /5 C Ford: I contacted Mr. Aaron Lodge on Sept. 10th through leaving a message and following up with his assistant Mr Steve Wise. I spoke with them regarding obtaining a family law lawyer. I was told that I would need a consultation, so I pay the fee to talk on the phone with Mr Lodge for that consult. Durning this time I filled Mr. Lodge in on what was going on in my marriage from my side of the view. He ask several financial questions before advising me on what I should do moving forward. He explained to me that I need to keep my cool in all hostile situations where my wife would be trying to push me to do something physical that I didnt want to do. During our conversation I spoke about wanting to obtain him as my lawyer so I could move forward with my divorce. The cost to do such, was a $6000 dollar retainer fee that I paid on October 3rd after a major incident happened at my house where my wife left me no choice but to file for divorce. I paid the $6K and then proceeded with helping me file the divorce paperwork. I send the paperwork back to Mr. Lodge who filed the petition. It wasnt accepted so he refilled it back out and signed my name and submitted it again. He reach out later to tell me it was done and how to serve her the proper papers. During my consultation we spoke of my case in great detail, then after the paperwork was filed he pushed me into allowing him to become the mediator in our divorce. I didnt understand why he wanted to do this but thought it wouldnt hurt. I later thought about all the things I disclosed to him during and after our consultation and started to wonder if my spouse knew he had given me strong advice on how to hold my cool in situations where she is verbally abusive and or blacked out drunk, where she is trying to get a reaction out of me. After we spoke a few times on the phone and he negotiated his way from the attorney I thought I was retaining to the mediator he told me not to tell my spouse of our past conversations where I had disclosed private matters of this case from my point of view. All in all, I dont want to have a mediator and now when I ask for a refund, he doesnt respond to me at all. This is very unprofessional in my opinion. I will not be using him moving forward no matter what. Im trying to get him to refund my money as he has done nothing to earn it and now that he has treated me in such a manner, I dont want to work with him at all. He never provided me with any contract saying where my money was going.

5 /5 Paul Nelson: Ive been to several law presentations from Aaron. Knowledgeable about mediation and very approachable and charismatic personality.

5 /5 Steven Weiss: Mr Lodge is professional, competent, and extremely thorough. I highly recommend him for any kegal services. For me, he really went the extra mile to understand my case and get me through it.