We took a confidential advice session on an immigration issue. We had an initial phone call with a non-expert to find out more about us, who concluded they were 'well-positioned' to deal with our case and he scheduled us a face-to-face appointment earlier than the slots they had publicly available because our situation was urgent. This was good, and saved us a long drive to one of their other offices. On the day though, they didn't seem to be expecting us even though we'd emailed ahead the day before and the appointment was 20 mins late to start. Bad start, but willing to accept there had just been an admin error.
During our session, we felt the senior expert that we'd been assigned didn't know the answers to some of our questions, even though we had sent them through previously. Rather than admitting they weren't sure, we were given inaccurate information, which obviously panicked us. On a couple of questions, it felt like we actually knew more about the topic than the expert, who still tried to advise us. We ended up going away and doing our own research, at which point we discovered information contradictory to what we'd been told by them. The whole point of us taking the advice session was so that we could be more confident in trusting their expertise, rather than just going with information we had found out ourselves. In reality, it just slowed us down in fighting our case. Happily, our situation is now resolved, however it was with no thanks to them, which is a disappointment because their advice session didn't come cheap for us.
Finally, as part of the advice session, they promised written confirmation of the advice given. We got an email saying to let them know if we wanted them to take up our case, and also to let them know if the written advice didn't come within a week. We suspect this was their way of avoiding having to do the work as I'm not sure how they were going to provide this written advice, given that the expert hadn't taken any notes during the session. As we'd already found out their info was wrong and we'd decided not to trust them with our case, we didn't bother chasing the written advice, and sure enough, it never came through.