Reviews
Richard was recommended to me by a colleague. After our initial meeting, I felt like a lead weight had been literally taken off my shoulders. Richard was completely candid and honest with me throughout the process, and he is a knowledgeable, highly competent attorney. His communication skills are top notch as he was ultra-responsive to my questions regarding procedure and strategy throughout the process. Moreover, he is completely zoned in on obtaining the best results for his client - for me, he exceeded my expectations. I have recommended him to family/friends and he consistently does top-notch work. I will continue to recommend him without qualification. Frankly, he is worth every penny.
Estate planning isn’t the sexiest of topics. However, as a single parent, I felt it was important to plan ahead should the unthinkable occur. Richard made an otherwise daunting and obscure process seamless and enjoyable. It was clear from our first interaction that he is as experienced and knowledgeable as he is compassionate. Due to a series of unfortunate events, I had to hire various kinds of attorneys over the past few years. I can say with great conviction that Richard is a top-tier professional. He strategically—and efficiently—assessed my particular needs and was able to establish a trust in just under 2 weeks. Although his practice now focuses exclusively on estate planning, Richard still provided me with competent, thorough, and practical legal advice on a broad spectrum of issues beyond the scope of his retainer. Additionally, his enthusiasm, promptness, and flexibility was unmatched. Phone calls were returned without delay, rescheduling requests were a non-issue, and his rates were more than reasonable. I would highly recommend this firm to anyone looking for estate planning services.
We needed to get a trust in place to protect our family and Richard made it both easy and informative. Completely flexible to our schedule, the entire process of working with Richard was smooth. He was organized and sent us a clear list of the documents we needed to proactively provide and why to speed the process along, able to meet both in-person or virtually depending on our preference, and fully explained the different documents being created and their purpose/importance. Richard also took the time to answer all of our questions to make sure we felt comfortable with the process the whole way through and offered to answer questions after the fact should any arise in the future. All in all, we got wrapped up in 2 short meetings and a few emails. I’ll definitely be coming to him again in the future for my family’s legal needs.
Richard is a wonderful lawyer for giving us estate planning. The whole process is extremely smooth. Richard is a good communicator and educator. He communicated clearly from the beginning, what looks like, procedures, timeline and cost. During process, he always patiently explained clearly what we did not know and he educated us certain scenarios. We learned a lot from this process. He even graciously offer beyond point helps. It is a excellent experience and I strongly recommend Richard.
Richard Wingerden is not what I expected from a lawyer. He is a down to earth person. Easy to talk to and very approachable. It was a pleasure do ing business with him. Because of his many years of experience he is very knowledgeable and thorough. I found him to be a very ethical lawyer and I will use his services again in the future.
I highly recommend Richard Wingerden as a very qualified, competent, caring attorney to take care of all your trust documents. I hired him to make several changes to a trust document I already had and he did an excellent job at a very reasonable price. I am extremely satisfied with his expertise, knowledge, and his personable manner.
Richard was able to help me on a short notice ~1 week v.s. typical multiple weeks for setting up a living trust, explained things very clearly, and was very friendly. Recommend!
Our future is now built on a solid foundation thanks to Richard Wingerden’s expert guidance. Richard presented our Trust plan portfolio in our follow-up meeting, which was comprehensive and straightforward.