Grant Konvalinka & Harrison, P.C. - Chattanooga, Tennessee

Irealle S.

I had an experience with James Scott McDearman at this firm that raised serious concerns regarding the legal advice I received. Upon researching his credentials, I found that Scott McDearman is not listed as a licensed attorney in Florida on the Florida Bar website, yet he provided legal advice and opinions regarding my HIPAA complaint and patient rights. This raised significant questions about unlicensed practice of law.

Despite my inquiries, I did not receive clear or satisfactory answers regarding my rights or the handling of my medical information. I am currently pursuing formal complaints with the Florida Bar and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding these issues.

I would advise anyone interacting with this firm to ensure clarity on the credentials of individuals providing legal advice, particularly in Florida.

nicholasdavis45

I am a father of two children. I have custodial custody of my two son’s as well. I am an active duty service member and have obligations to duty such as deployments/rotations out of country. I followed my permanent parenting plan and had my kids stay with their mother and her boyfriend while I was gone overseas. Within two and a half weeks of being gone she and her boyfriend disappeared with my kids, alienated me from my kids, filed false abuse allegations to my current post ( which was investigated and unfounded). Among other things my kids were also not registered in school and ended up starting a week late once I had began filing missing persons reports for my children which forced her hand in enrolling them and letting me contact them. My firm I had used previously to Grant Konvalinka & Harrison was amazing and was the firm that helped me to win my custodial custody a year earlier all the way from Colorado. After about nine months of using my previous firm, to save me some expenses my attorney had recommended that I use local representation and advised that Katherine Lentz would be more than capable of representing me fairly and well in this case. Once I agreed to make this transition I spoke with Katherine and everything we spoke about seemed like a clean cut case seeing that I had more than enough evidence in the case to come out with a successful ruling. However, as the months went on the opposing attorney in the case found ways to keep getting the hearing dates moved and have yet to be heard. I fought the whole nine months I was gone to try to get my kids home and to be cared for by my wife. My ex wife broke every single court order, everything in the PPP and someone I had to budge and bend and at one point even had to pay money to my ex wife for her to meet halfway to exchange my kids when she has never paid a dime in child support. She continued to let my ex wife break court orders for the longest time without filing any motions of contempt, the GAL had filed two previous contempt motions on her own behalf before Katherine actually filed one. This case has been so screwed up and unjust since I have been using Katherine to represent me. She had informed me that the opposing counsel had been getting her case probono even though she’s the one that committed tax fraud by claiming my children which goes against the PPP and false reporting. Countless emails were sent to Katherine with no response and when there was a response it was short and barely helpful. I conveyed my frustration over and over again and was met with we don’t like the way you speak to everyone ( referring to my ex wife and herself). After over a year of begging this case to gain progress and hold my ex wife accountable and the event of my children being moved to four different homes over the summer due to the lack of my attorney to take action in getting them back along with nine months of begging her to file a child support order to help with expenses, I finally filed a complaint to the Tennessee Board of Professional responsibility and within 24 hours of being notified that my complaint was granted an investigation Katherine without even speaking with me filed a motion to withdraw her representation in my case after charging me over 18,000 dollars with nothing to show for it and all on the weekend I have to be gone to training for the month and can’t find proper representation to continue my case to hold my ex accountable. This just goes to show the injustice that fathers have when fighting for what is best for their children because history shows clearly fathers in the same role that the mother is in have been put in jail and drained financially with child support for a lot less yet I have to beg and beg for the same justice. I will never recommend this firm and luckily it’s not close to base where so many fathers on active duty are fighting for their kids because this firm does not seem to care about how they treat their service members nor the fathers position.

B G.

I highly recommend this firm and especially Savannah May who helped secure full custody of my children. She did everything to make this difficult proces as smooth as possible. I'll never use another firm.

Michael A.

Great and lovely place. I just want to thank Mrs. Brittany faith and all her coworkers ( John etc.. ) who worked hard and brought my wife and 4 children to me in Tennessee from Africa last year. May God bless you all abundantly.

Judith M.

I was transferred to John Konvanlinka when I called re: setting up an appointment. When I began describing my legal issue, Mr. Konvanlinka became impatient, saying I had taken up too much of his time (< 10 minutes), as he was preparing for a trial the next day. I said I had not known about his time limitation; that, after all, the receptionist had transferred me to him, and that he could have simply offered to call me back. He questioned why I'd even been transferred to him, since he didn't deal with my kind of case. When I asked what I should do, or with whom I should speak, he said he did not know. I came away from my conversation with Mr. Konvalinka feeling as I have over the years following the divorce so badly botched by my attorney - that I am still my only advocate.

Kelley C.

Thomas Gautreaux is a fantastic attorney at an outstanding law firm, and a hero to my family. We battled mold for two years and suffered health issues due to undisclosed water intrusions into a home I purchased. I called Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison—who have a reputation for being exceptionally aggressive and thorough. Tom Gautreaux took my case, secured a fair settlement and help our family put this nightmare behind us. Tom is brilliant with an extensive knowledge of the law, and worked diligently to put together a solid case. He details the strengths and weaknesses of a case and never sugar coats anything. He is honest, straight forward, incredibly hard working and dedicated to his clients. In addition to being an aggressive defender, he is also kind, patient, understanding and worked with me to keep costs low. Tom, paralegal Hollie Floberg, and the team at Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison are superior in every way, and I highly recommend them.

Ruy A. A.

Recently worked with GKH, specifically with Brittany Faith. It was a 100% excellent service and an excellent experience for myself. Brittany is very professional, pragmatic and client focused. Definitely would work with GKH again!

Dr. B. C.

Awesome firm, great customer service, would definitely recommend!