Our Clients'
Words, Not Ours.

"For three years, I tried to tell people that a ventriloquist at my company's annual gala had accused me — through his dummy — of embezzling from the employee wellness fund. People laughed. My employer did not. I was passed over for two promotions before I contacted Cordwell, Holloway & Feltner. Mr. Cordwell's team took my case without hesitation, built a defamation claim that held the ventriloquist personally liable for his puppet's statements, and secured a judgment that finally made it clear: a puppet's mouth does not absolve the hand inside it."

"My sister-in-law brought a marionette to Thanksgiving dinner. Within forty minutes, it had pulled a ceiling-mounted pot rack off the wall, shattered a complete set of Fiestaware, and put a crack in my quartz countertop that ran from the sink to the stove. When I asked her to pay for the damage, she told me the marionette 'had a mind of its own.' Ms. Voss and her team disagreed. They held the marionette's owner fully responsible, and I was able to replace everything that was destroyed, including the countertop."

"Our HOA treasurer was a sock puppet. I do not mean that figuratively. For eighteen months, a sock puppet named 'Mr. Buttons' signed checks, approved expenditures, and voted on assessments at board meetings while the human member who operated him sat silently. By the time the fraud was uncovered, nearly ninety thousand dollars in HOA funds had been misallocated. Ms. Ruiz-Cortes and her team pierced the felt and recovered our money. I cannot overstate how seriously they took something that everyone else treated as a joke."

"At a community health fair, a puppet in a white coat told me I had an irregular heartbeat and needed to see a cardiologist immediately. I spent four months in and out of specialists' offices, underwent two stress tests, and was prescribed medication I did not need — all because a hand puppet with a stethoscope stitched to its chest gave me a cardiac diagnosis. Mr. Cordwell's office held both the puppet's handler and the event organizers liable. The relief of knowing someone took this seriously was almost as important as the settlement."

"We bought our home in Savannah's historic district in 2019. The seller told us the house had 'character.' What he did not tell us was that three paranormal investigation teams had documented persistent entity activity in the home over a fourteen-year period. Doors opened on their own. Furniture moved overnight. Our daughter refused to sleep in her room after the first week. Ms. Holloway and her team obtained the seller's own correspondence with paranormal investigators and proved he had concealed a material condition. We were made whole, and we found a home where the only character comes from the architecture."

"When our children started talking about their 'friends' in the upstairs hallway, we assumed they were being imaginative. Then our five-year-old described a woman in a gray dress who told her the house used to be different. A subsequent investigation revealed that the property had been the subject of four documented paranormal complaints filed with the town by three previous owners. The seller disclosed none of this. Ms. Chen-Watkins handled our case with compassion and precision, and the court agreed that our children's safety and our family's peace of mind were not things the seller had the right to gamble with."

"I purchased a three-story mixed-use building as a commercial investment. Within six months, all three tenants had broken their leases and vacated. The second-floor tenant, a CPA, told me she could not work because her files were rearranged every night by unseen hands. The third-floor tenant's employees refused to use the restroom after multiple encounters with what they described as a translucent figure near the stairwell. Ms. Holloway's investigation revealed that the previous owner had experienced identical complaints for years and sold the property without disclosure. We recovered the full diminished value and eighteen months of lost rent."

"I was driving across the Silver Bridge when a winged figure descended onto the road ahead of me. I swerved to avoid it and struck the guardrail. The car behind me struck my vehicle. I sustained a fractured collarbone, two herniated discs, and what my therapist later diagnosed as post-traumatic stress disorder. The county had received over forty Mothman sighting reports in the preceding months and had done nothing — no warnings, no additional lighting, no increased patrols. Ms. Holloway fought for me when no one else would, and the settlement reflected both the severity of my injuries and the county's deliberate indifference."

"Something came out of the tree line behind my property on four separate occasions over two months. Each time, it damaged fencing, collapsed a tool shed wall, and scattered firewood across the yard. The fourth time, it tore the door off my detached garage. I filed reports with county animal control, and each time they told me it was 'probably a bear.' Mr. Achebe's team brought in a wildlife forensic specialist who confirmed the damage patterns were inconsistent with any known bear species in the region. The county parks department, which had documented Bigfoot sighting reports from the adjacent state forest, was held liable for failure to warn."

"I lost fourteen goats and three head of cattle over six weeks. Every animal showed the same marks — two puncture wounds and complete exsanguination. My veterinarian had no explanation. Local animal control dismissed my reports and suggested coyotes, despite the fact that no coyote leaves a fully drained animal with surgical puncture wounds. Mr. Achebe and Ms. Holloway took my case, obtained prior reports that animal control had received and ignored, and proved that the county's failure to investigate or warn ranchers in the area constituted negligence. That settlement allowed me to rebuild my herd and install protective infrastructure I should never have needed."

"I spent four years building a specialty retail business from nothing. In 2024, I discovered that an identical business — same concept, same branding strategy, same supplier relationships — had been established in my market eighteen months before I opened. The owner had no background in my industry and no explanation for how he had arrived at a business model that mirrored mine in every detail. Mr. Feltner's team established through chrono-forensic evidence that the competitor had used temporal displacement to replicate my business before I could build it. The court recognized this as actionable misappropriation, and the damages allowed me to rebuild what was taken from me before I ever had it."

"I received a collections notice for a vehicle I never purchased, followed by a credit card statement for an account I never opened, followed by a commercial lease agreement bearing my signature in handwriting that was, unmistakably, my own — but that I had never signed. Mr. Branch's investigation revealed that a future version of myself had conducted these transactions using my current identity. I understand that this sounds impossible. The court found otherwise. Mr. Branch and the team at Cordwell, Holloway & Feltner restored my credit, voided the unauthorized obligations, and secured damages that covered the full cost of unraveling the financial chaos that my future self left behind."