With my observations throughout my custody case I have to say that Mrs. Hilke is on top of her game with concise strategies, and is the leading family lawyer in the High Desert.

She could care less what damage she does to children. Never see her in court anymore so I hope she is done wrecking lives. Nasty hateful woman and her office people are unfriendly and rude.

Great staff! Cindy was so helpful. The whole office is fast, efficient, and know what they are talking about! Janis is a strong and supportive lawyer. Grateful for them in my time of need. ❤️

BEST in the HIGH DESERT. Hired for child custody and dissolution. Janis and her team worked fast and legitimate to meet our desires along with being stern in the court room to fight for what was right and what was wrong. Janis and her team are the best in the HD guaranteed

Janis and Larry worked did amazing things for the custody/divorce case. They genuinely seemed to care about it. In court, Janis did her thing and was great!

That being said, the office was busy. A lot. It almost seemed overloaded with cases, which meant communication was difficult, and things tended to take longer than desired.

The progress made couldn't have been done without Janis and her staff, though.

How do you say thank you to someone who helped play a part in changing the life of my family??

My case was difficult. About 15 months ago my sons mom refused to send him for visitation to Tennessee. Through Able 2 Help Services we started the process for a move-away order, which is difficult to get in the best of circumstances. As we progressed through the lengthy court process, mediation, etc., we ended up at trial. I knew I was in over my head at this point. When a family member offered to hire an attorney, we had the privilege of meeting Janice.

Even though this case had been going on for over a year, she agreed to help us and picked up the duties of going to trial. Although she hadn't been a part of the case, she never hesitated. In a short period of time, she and her team got up to speed on the details of the case. With all the evidence, reports and declarations; she prepared for the fight of my sons life.

Janice was methodical and relentless in her delivery of the evidence. She is very rational and keeps emotion out of the court room, as any good lawyer does. Watching her hammer my sons mom about her failures did offer more than a little satisfaction. I would not have been able to navigate the trial without the professionalism and knowledge that Janice brought to the case.

My son is now home in Tennessee with us, learning to thrive in ways he never knew possible. Janice helped to change the direction of his life and the life of my family. I will be eternally grateful for her efforts and would HIGHLY recommend her services to anyone in need.

I have read some of the other reviews and have to say, I did not see the person they're speaking of. It's my job, as my sons Dad to feel everything that's going on...it's her job to manage the case dispassionately, within the legal system and she did that exceptionally!! With all my heart, thank you Janice!!

Lacks morals..... does not care about children.

Mrs Hilke is amazing! So understanding and takes pride in her work! I highly recommend her to anyone having family law issues, divorce or custody battles!

Doesnt care about you, just out for your money.

I agree with the other bad rating comments. I paid in full for her services and its been three weeks and nothing has been filed. I do all the calling to the office. Her staff as well are very rude and unprofessional. I wished i had googled about her before paying upfront. I would not recommend you higher this office. It may be her staff that or her not sure who to blame.

Best of the best!! Miss her dearly!!!

Wayyy to much to explain. Point being she doesnt give 2 craps about her clients esp the children Involved. Doesnt ever call back but charges a fortune if she does. Misses court dates. We fires her at the end of the case and there was no coming back from her damage. She ruined my familys life and esp the child! Please please dont be her next victim!!

We had the worse experience dealing with Janice Hilke, in two months we didn't talk to her once, she totally ignored us, I guess we weren't that important. But she didn't have a problem taking our money, in fact she was all about "Retain me, Retain me", trying to get our credit card information.
After the initial consultation which she charged us $50 for 15 minutes, we didn't hear from her at all, if we didn't call in complaining on why weren't hearing anything from anybody in that office, "Is nobody working on our case?", "How long do we have to wait until we hear something from somebody?", how frustrating!!!. After that, the only person we talked to was one of her assistants for over two months of wasting our time, this cost us over $850. We basically got charged for playing phone tag with her assistant for two months while our paperwork was being pushed from one side of her assistants desk to the other. They not once did anything on our case which was about child abuse, CHILD ABUSE!!!! This should never have been taken as lightly as it was with no regard for us or for our case or for our money or time. The bill was much larger except that we disputed the frivolous charges that we found on our bill, otherwise it would have been closer to $2000... of our wasted time and money, what a ridiculous waste!!!!
After we fired her is when she was ready to start working on our case, what a joke, WHAT PART OF "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!!" "DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!!!"
We have never in our lives seen this level of lousy service in any industry or service,
we're surprised that she's still in business.
I would never refer this attorney to anybody, save yourself the head ache and don't go here for any reason.
Brian F.