Mullavey, Prout, Grenley & Foe, LLP

My husband and I just completed our wills using Sarah Smith out of this office. We were going on a long trip overseas and with two little children figured it was finally time to bite the bullet and get our estate in order. I looked online for a long time to see if it was something we could do ourselves or through a website, and decided to go the professional route instead. I’m so glad I did. Sarah asked pertinent questions, presented scenarios that I hadn’t thought of, and made the process incredibly simple. She also talked about the next steps to take as our estate grows and at what points we’d want to get in touch again to structure things differently for tax reasons. It was easy to get an appointment, documents were ready quickly, and she and her office staff were very patient with our kids tearing the place up when we brought them to our signing. The office was also very conveniently located to us — if you’re in Ballard looking for a will they’re a no brainer!

Taking forever to settle my Mom’s estate with Sarah Smith. Believe she inherited some of Mullavey’s clients after his retirement. There has to be a better way. Zero communication, zero advice. Just processing the papers. No attention to detail or customer satisfaction. Wish it wasn’t too late to get a pro.

Quite a few years ago I happened to be riding the bus up Aurora when some guy started to try to cross Aurora. Needless to say there is a HUGE barricade going down Aurora and it was rush hour. This man walked out in front of the bus that was ahead of us and got hit. I got a call from Mullavey’s office as did many of us who were on the bus. They wanted us as witnesses. I told them that this guy stepped out in front of the bus during rush hour traffic and was trying to cross Aurora when all he had do was walk up the stairs on the over pass next to him to cross. I said he was trying to cross illegally. They said thank you we won’t be needing you as a witness. They said I was PREJUDICE against their client who was a victim. I thought all witnesses were improtant

I was Mr. Mullavey’s secretary for a time in 1992. Their law office was very behind the times in terms of technology, so everything was unnecessarily difficult as they insisted on running their office in the dark ages. Mr. Mullavey was focused on the most minute details of his secretary’s desk more than his own practice (micromanager). I saw evidence of a long line of former secretaries at that desk, not to mention what other staffers hinted at to me directly about Mr. Mullavey’s difficulty holding onto secretaries and how impossible he was to work for.
Then he was nice enough to take a few secretaries out for lunch on Administrative Professionals’ Day to a nearby Ballard seafood restaurant. I never will forget the FIRST thing that came out of his mouth as he finally started to speak to me as a human and not his drone: «Don’t you think you will have a hard time finding a husband at your current weight?» I guess he didn’t know I had already been married for 9 years in the past. BTW, I was only 40 pounds overweight at the time, and at 5’9″ I carried it pretty well, am a fairly snappy dresser for work and don’t have too shabby of a face, and worked out a lot then. Needless to say I didn’t work for him much longer. BTW, I’ve been happily married for a second time for 14 years now.
I’m sure there are really nice staff and attorneys who work there, but Mr. Mullavey was a piece of work. I hope they have Microsoft Word by now…