Berry K. Tucker & Associates, Ltd. - Oak Lawn, Illinois

J T.

I was going through a possible divorce and I was very emotionally distraught. Mr. Tucker explained to me that going through a divorce was a really tough, long, and likely expensive process. He suggested some resources to encourage me to try and work through my problems with my spouse. I had one additional consultation and he did not charge me anything near what I expected to have to pay. I am grateful for his humanity as a lawyer and for his honesty about how hard it would have been to continue down this path. I'm also happy to say that after I served my husband, it reminded him that he would miss me and the kids a lot if we weren't a family. It was a rough two year period, but I'm grateful that I found an attorney with a heart. That doesn't happen often, in my experience.

Michelle E.

In November 2014, my husband and I met with Attorney Berry Tucker to consult with him regarding a domestic matter (child support reduction). During the consultation, I gave Mr. Tucker information and figures related to the case and he proceeded to do some calculating on his own. His calculations were incorrect, as he completed them using my husband's net income, without adding in the child support amount, which was already being deducted. He acknowledged that he was wrong and when we received the documents in the mail from him, they included the same incorrect figures he'd produced during the consultation. Two telephone conversations later, the matter was resolved. When the corrected documents were drafted, we were contacted by his office staff and told the dollar amount we needed (the total paid $1500.) to bring to them when picking up the documents. Without any additional glitches, the case was filed and the child support was reduced. THREE months later we received a bill in the mail for 1100+ additional charges! $500 of the $1100 reduced, according to the bill, as a courtesy! There were charges for the telephone calls, which were made for me to explain the calculations to the Attorney AGAIN, mileage, a phone call to the Judge, who presided over the case (why I wonder...we were not told of any nor can we think of any related need to contact the Presiding Judge). When I called the Attorney to speak with him about the bill we received THREE months after our business had concluded, his staff claimed to not know if he was in the office. NOTE: This is the SAME office we met him in, where we went to pick up and return documents and where we made payments, and unless there were some major renovations made since we visited on those occasions, his door is 5-6 feet from her desk. She would have to be blind and deaf to not know whether he were in the office or not.
Three days later, when the Attorney did return my call, he said to me, "I thought you'd be excited about the $500. courtesy discount." Needless to say, I am not excited. I am furious that the service we agreed upon for an estimated $1500 (an amount according to him we should expect without any outstanding circumstances--which there weren't outside of the Attorney's mistake or failure to understand the math), which has now amounted to $2600+. If you need simple legal services, I STRONGLY recommend you seeking assistance from another Attorney! If you need major assistance, run! Otherwise you, like my husband and I, may receive a surprise bill in the mail, three months after your services have been rendered and told you should be excited about his COURTESY DISCOUNT!!! I felt ripped off in November ($1500 is A LOT of money for what we needed, but the matter was important enough for us to have resolved by someone, who we believed to be a professional, so we agreed to the exorbitant fee). I now feel extorted! By the way, the reason given by Mr. Tucker for the three month delay in billing was, "we were busy taking care of business." Last I checked, record keeping (including timely billing) is key to operating a successful and reputable business. I never expected this, but I guess that is because I expected too much! Don't wind up like us with an unwanted, unexpected courtesy dressed up and camouflaged in a three month old $1100+ BILL!!!

Kathryn K.

We used Tucker & Associates in starting a business. They helped us with all the legal start up procedures and actually made it easy and affordable.

Hamda Z.

Very very nice people would recommend for advice and if you have a case I'm sure they will help you

tunstill T.

Claims to have associates but he's a one man firm.

Mr. C.

Taylor A.

Vasil V.