The Law Offices of Richard J Hess

Richard is very knowledgable and organized! He explains everything very well. In one hour, he was able to create a revokable trust for a complex set of assets.
Richard is excellent. You won’t be disappointed.

Richard gave us such prompt professional service for our family trust. His service to our family was invaluable, and I recommend him to all of my friends. My sister and her husband used him for their trust as well, and they were so impressed. Tell your friends! Richard does a wonderful job and his price is the best in the valley.

Just adding another voice to those recommending Richard Hess for estate planning. Mr. Hess was not only thorough, explaining the options carefully, but also extremely efficient – from our initial consultation to a created trust took about a week. The costs for the will, trust, and medical directives were very reasonable. (I had postponed doing this because of an initial quote I’d received from a different lawyer years earlier.) His integrity and attention to detail were evident in all interactions.
The office is small, charming, well-​run, and near Saratoga Village.

After watching family members going through what seemed like endless hours of attorney appointments and months and months of stress, we just kept putting off creating ours for fear of going through the same. Well, soooooo glad we were given the wonderful referral to Richard Hess. He not only saw us quickly but had our entire trust ready for signing in less than two weeks! He is very professional and explains everything in great detail enough that in the end we had no questions and understood our trust perfectly. The trust is presented in a beautiful custom binder which I was not expecting. His pricing is very, very reasonable. There is such a peace of mind knowing that this is completed and done well. I highly recommend Richard to anyone wanting to make a trust or have him help a family member administer one. He really is a very nice, honest person who we trust — no pun intended. We feel very lucky to have found him.

Had been delaying creating a living trust for years, but Richard made the process painless, professional and quick. He has a methodical approach, easy to follow, that generated the conditions of our trust, covering many circumstances that I had not even considered.
Highly recommended.

Richard was referred to us by a family member and we couldn’t believe how fortunate we were to have found him. Richard is extremely personable and gifted in ways that you rarely find nowadays. Richard has a sharp and quick mind and he immediately helped us to understand what direction we needed to take. He explained to us what we didn’t understand and guided us in areas we were unsure of. He is the real deal, very educated, smart, funny, humble, generous and we can’t stop saying enough great things about Richard. We highly recommend him to family, friends and anyone looking for an upstanding lawyer to help with trust/​wills and so forth.

Richard helped me and my friend set up separate trusts. He is extremely friendly, detail orientated, and professional. Richard was able to explain the complexities of estate planning in an easy to understand way and he made sure I was doing the right things to protect myself. I highly recommend him to my friends, family, and colleagues.

I cannot say enough about Mr. Hess. He is pleasant, easy to understand, caring and knows his stuff. He explained the Living Trust process in detail and in less than two weeks we were able to complete the process. The price was very reasonable and I am very happy to have been able to work with him.
I only wished he practiced other forms of law as I would contact him for other issues.

I have used Mr. Hess twice, once for a living trust and once to set up a power of attorney. As someone who would not normally speak highly of the average attorney, I can sincerely recommend him to anyone seeking such services. He is a pleasure to work with, and puts the client at ease.

Forget every attorney stereotype, Richard is honest, caring, entertaining and an all around good guy. He went way beyond the call of duty to explain everything to us, answered all of our questions and guided us through the whole process. He wasn’t concerned about how much time we took, didn’t try to upsell and he is very reasonably priced. Just go, you won’t regret it.

Richard is a wonderful attorney who put together our customized estate plan. He is professional and personable with a warm sense of humor. My husband and I put off our trust/​wills for years because we feared that the process would be intimidating, yet working through the process with Richard has provided us with a great sense of relief. We are confident that we now have a well thought out, comprehensive estate plan for our children. Richard is an extremely knowledgeable «hard to find» attorney with integrity, who genuinely cares about his clients; and as busy as he is, he and assistant, Laurel, are incredibly patient and responsive. While working with us on complex issues, he answered our questions with clear explanations and has a gift for translating our needs into legal language. If you are considering an attorney for estate planning, look no further… we highly recommend Richard!!!

Very much in line with the previous review, I’ve only met a handful of lawyers who were also nice people. Was lucky enough to have worked for two of them and call them friend. One is now dead, at the hands of a client, the other is a judge.
Richard was not only incredibly knowledgeable, generous with his time, funny and interesting, he is unconventionally reasonably priced! He will take the time to educate you about all your options, gather your preferences, and prepare all your documentation for signing, at which time he’ll go over it all with you again, AND provide you free notary services! The best part is that you’d easily pay three times what Ricard will charge you and not receive a tenth of the service and personal attention with any other attorney out there.
This guy is part of that 2% that the rest of the 98% of lawyers give a bad name to!