Yates Law Firm 320 West Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33606

"I hired Carla's firm in 2011 when I was appointed Trustee for the estate of a dear friend who passed away. The estate had several properties and many intricate pieces. I was so relieved after meeting with Carla and Ann. It was a long and somewhat complicated journey but they were with me every step of the way! I will be forever grateful for their knowledge, professionalism and support during the entire process."

"This is the second time I’ve hired Carla Yates as our attorney. She helped me, my mom and sisters when my father passed away and now she is helping us with my Aunt’s estate. Carla is very professional, efficient, and tenacious. I would highly recommend her and her team. She is a great attorney and me and my family are forever grateful for her."

"My family and I retained Ms. Yates in December of 2022 to handle a family members estate. Ms. Yates and her staff treated us like family and was always a phone call or email away. We are in Ohio and dealt with the case from a far, Carla and her staff helped with whatever we needed during this stressful time in our life. We cannot thank them enough for handling this case in such a timely manner. I highly recommend the Carla Yates and Yates law firm."

"We retained Carla Yates to handle the trust from our father’s sudden passing, and to liaise with our uncle when we no longer could. Initially, Carla was responsive, communicative, and instilled confidence and security in my brother and myself that the trust and familial matters were safe in her hands. However, after the first few months, Carla almost abruptly changed her professional demeanor. Although we understand that legal matters such as these take time within the courts, we had to ask Carla after several weeks at a time with no contact, the status of things, what the next steps were, if what she’d last told us had been expedited, etc. After having retained Carla for roughly 7 months, we were told there would be an awaited follow up June 20th. We had periodically emailed Mrs. Yates, and finally expressed some dissatisfaction july 25th after still not receiving communication as promised, to which Mrs. Yates reaction was acute, stating it was the summer and people take some days off, and she has a busy firm. Additionally, she threatened to drop our case. This is the second occasion where we have expressed, professionally, some dissatisfaction with Carla and she has been reactive. Carla would frequently be difficult to communicate with, with several periods of silence after trying to reach out for updates on multiple occasions. Of a few of these instances, Carla cited other cases that were emergent, making us feel as though our case was insignificant. If emergent cases had arisen or if Carla was too busy for our case, we feel she could have set up an auto reply by email for her other clients she could not attend to during those times, or perhaps denied taking our case to begin with. Checks that were to be sent out to my brother and myself at our respective addresses were sent out to the old ones, despite providing our most recent addresses twice. When this mishap occurred, we did not receive any apology on Carla’s or her firm’s part. We hadn’t received any apology or accountability or understanding for any of the things we’d expressed disappointment with. Instead, we were met with resistance and argument which left a regretful taste in our mouths. Finally, we have found it strange that Carla has next to 0 reviews online, with such a lengthy practice history"

"This is a belated review of the Yates law firm specially Ms. Ann-Eliza M Taylor and her wonderful staff. She helped me when it appeared that no one else was going to help me I was new in Tampa and I had tried calling multiple lawyers for a case that was going to Court in a couple of days she volunteered all she could and said she didn't think she could take the case I'm so short a notice. Desperate after calling numerous lawyers some who told me they couldn't take the case and some didn't even call me back. I called her back and she took the case and got a continuance. She was thorough and understanding about a guardianship situation with my mother. She told us not to worry and she would take care of everything I can't get into details but she came through with flying colors her staff were wonderful and kind and supportive. I strongly recommend Miss Taylor and the whole Yates law firm. My mother and I are eternally grateful for her help!"