Armstrong Meakings

I have used Gordon Meakings on a couple different occassions and both times he has been extremely patient, understanding, and thural. Not to mention his rates are FANTASTIC!!! whenever I need a real estate lawyer in Barrie, I am going to Gordon Meakings.

Jack Armstrong was never my layer. I was involved in a landlord tent trial ware he was representing the landlord against me and my wife. Jack ended up making massive mistakes. the justice had to do simple math for jack multiplication of $1500 because she noticed in seconds it was incorrect . Jack also stood down court for hours so he could complet the paperwork he was to have ready .... That being said if u don’t mind wasting time and money then to each there Owen hiring jack u can do both ... ether way jack didn’t need to be there we never opposed the charges and jack probably got a few grand out of the landlord for his clown and pony show ... Fast forward a month we get a letter from jacks office that was so unprofessional I wanted to inform the public the caricature of this lawyer/law firm ARMSTRONG,MEAKINGS ... so Jack has some personal options fine but to put them in a letter to people he doesn’t know over a financial case is pathetic ... opinions like ( my kids have no chance if the live with me ) & ( that our lives are miserable) & ( we will have no credit forever) are uninformed,pointless and a true measure of ur worth as a lawyer and human In my opinion

I used Jack Armstrong's services back in 2010. My wife left me with 2 small kids and demanded a separation agreement be made. I found a free separation agreement template using Google that was written by a lawyer and claimed it was good and legal. I downloaded it and hashed out an agreement with my hostile wife. I brought to Jack Armstrong for review and counsel and he told me it wasn't worth the paper it was written on and that it wasn't legal. Not knowing any better, I asked him to compose one for me using the agreement I'd made as a guide for the wishes of me and my wife (now ex-wife). His legal secretary emailed a PDF scan of an agreement that was identical in content (just slightly different formatting) to what I'd created from the downloaded template with only a few differences. Primarily the child support section was changed to be in compliance with the Federal Government's requirements. I was so mad. All Mr. Armstrong had to do was tell me that the child support section wasn't compliant with federal law and I'd have been able to look that up and fix that section. Instead he made it sound like the entire agreement was crap. Also there were 4 other errors made in the document that his legal secretary sent to me. I emailed back details of the errors and what needed to be corrected. I received a revised document with only 1 error fixed and the other 3 still present. I then had to reply pointing out the 3 errors still present. Again, a new agreement with 1 error fixed and 2 still outstanding. This game continued until there still 1 error outstanding. I received an interim bill and saw that I was being billed for every email, every document revision, etc., so I could see the game that was being played. The document sent to me was a scanned PDFs so it couldn't be edited, and back then there wasn't OCR capability in Acrobat or MS-Word converters, so only the lawyer could fix the errors in the document. So I got smart. I spent a weekend making an MS-Word Document that was identical in format and content to the PDF version, fixed all the errors to my satisfaction, got the agreement signed with witnesses everything was done and legal. Learn from my mistakes and don't get burned by lawyers. A couple years later when I filed for divorce - I used a different lawyer. She was good, but I saved myself a lot of money with her as well by doing most of the work myself. They say "marriage is grand and divorce is 50 grand", but it doesn't have to cost you anywhere near that much if you're careful and frugal.