Buckley & Buckley Law, P.C. - Edwardsville, Illinois

Whitney H.

I will recommend Bridget Buckley to every person I know. She is kind, compassionate, and HONEST. She has guided me not only legally, but emotionally as well. Dealing with issues that involve your children can be quite emotional, and Bridget is able to help me separate my emotions from what is best for my son and his safety. Another review complained about a late night phone call, but I see it as a courtesy.Bridget takes into consideration how stressful these court dates can be, and finds the time to contact me to reassure me, even if that eats into her own personal time. The office staff is amazing and anytime I have a question they are very quick to get an answer for me.

I love that Bridget will NOT pretend you will get everything you want, she is REAL, and I think that may upset people who need a wake up call on how court works. If you want someone who isn’t going to take your money to play pretend with you, Bridget is your girl.

Jessica R.

Kathy Buckley is a force to be reckoned with. After bad experiences with 2 other lawyers she came in and saved the day during a long custody battle. She’s very direct, doesn’t sugar coat, great advocate for whatever her clients need. Well worth the money, I regret not hiring her in the first place.

Kevin R.

While communication could’ve been better, she was able to protect my daughter and my family from DCFS and a lot of the progressive aggression that they had

I wish there would’ve been more understanding and explanation

But Bridget got the job done and for that I will be forever grateful, especially for the fact that my daughter still lives with me

Stephanie H.

I have worked with Buckley and Buckley for many years. Bridget handled my visitation with my child. She is very knowledgeable about the law and what can be done. I needed a quick turn around on my will and other legal documents before a surgery. It was done within a matter of days. The office staff is friendly and helpful. I would recommend Buckley and Buckley to anyone needing family law.

Kylie L.

If communication and professionalism are important to you, I would not choose this law firm.

(With that being said, I have read nothing but positive comments regarding Kathy and when her daughter was out unexpectedly and Kathy and her team stepped in to assist, it was night and day from what I had experienced up until that point.)

As far as issues are concerned…

I was told on numerous occasions that she was personally swamped and the office “couldn’t keep up” due to her mother retiring which I can appreciate but at the same time, I have urgent custody issues and to be blunt, her workload is not my problem as I am paying her for her time and service. At some point, she should consider not taking on additional clients until she can get organized and can handle her current work load.

Communication from this office is very poor, I would call regarding urgent custody issues and not hear back and have to call numerous times to get an answer. I was told they could never get my phone to go through but turns out after being her client for over a year that they had the last digit of my phone number wrong. They were slow to communicate court dates, I would find out a day or two before we were supposed to appear in court. Most attorneys will prep you for a court hearing but Bridget’s prep was done 5 minutes before we were due in court and having the bailiff tell us that we needed to come “NOW” because we were delaying the entire court. It was embarrassing and uncalled for. If they file anything with the court, they never notified me or sent me a copy however the one time her mother filled in, I got copies of everything. They will forward documents from the other party with zero commentary or explanation of what you were receiving. If you could get her on the phone, it would be late evening most times or my favorite was when she was dropping her dog off to be groomed and I couldn’t hear what she was saying.

During our settlement conference, my now ex-husband’s attorney ended up helping me and guiding me more than my attorney.

When I finally hit my breaking point and called to ask them to withdraw from my case, after they had blatantly lied to the attorney on the other end about me “blocking their calls” and again, THEY were calling the wrong phone number, Bridget was very condescending and rude and at one point she even said, “you are the first person to fire me THIS YEAR.” I guess she’s had a solid 4 months into 2024 but not years previous, I’m not sure what else she meant by that. In addition, there is a YELP review posted 28 days ago that sounds very similar to my experience.

I could go on and on but I’ll end with saying dealing with divorce is not easy. I needed guidance and support and you will not find that here so please do your due diligence and choose your attorney wisely and if I could go back I would absolutely steer clear of Buckley & Buckley.

Corey F.

I would only recommend this law firm to my absolute worst enemy. Which is who they were supposed to be against, but they were more against me than the other party. $10k dollars and not 1 single thing I wanted was moved forward. They did alot of status hearings though!

angel C.

Bridget has worked hard over the past few years to keep me and my son safe. She has been there to talk me through and help me with every step of the process. Her paralegal Darla has also been wonderful in handling everything and being there to answer all of my questions and continue to reassure that everything was going to be fine. I am so thankful that I trusted them with this process.

Michael B.

If I could give zero stars I would. I was continually lied to about being able to get more time when the EOWE was actually part of the parenting plan. So now I only get to see my firstborn EOWE.