Benzoni Maffitt Law Office PLC

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About Benzoni Maffitt Law Office PLC

From the firm’s website

Attorneys

• Jim Benzoni — Partner
• Jessica Maffitt — Partner

Services listed

Immigration, Criminal, Appeals, Family & Juvenile

Founded

1992

Offices

• 2912 Beaver Ave, Des Moines, IA 50310

Source: benzonilaw.com · checked October 8, 2026. Lawyers Near Me hasn’t independently verified these details.

Hours of Operation

Monday

8 am–4:30 pm

Tuesday

8 am–4:30 pm

Wednesday

8 am–4:30 pm

Thursday

8 am–4:30 pm

Friday

8 am–4:30 pm

Saturday

Closed

Sunday

Closed

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• Victor Santos· via Google

  Spoke with Jim Benzoli on the phone this morning for the first time. He was very impolite, was not willing to listen to me explain my case, and said "I charge $100 to start looking at your case. It will be the best $100 spent of your life. You are not poor, so just schedule an appointment". I said "Thank you for your time", and hung up. Simply unbelievable. Very disrespectful and sounded like a salesman, not a lawyer.

  10 years ago
• B. Garcia· via Google

  If I could give them a lower review I would. we've had our case there for a while now and we called about a situation with the consulate. He called to insult me and my mother. He was so disrespectful he made us cry. And it takes a lot to make us cry. There are ways to communicate and Mr. Benzoni has no clue. His so called education is worthless if he doesn't know how to treat paying customers.

  10 years ago
• Elisa Benzoni· via Google

  He is a wonderful person, knowledgeable lawyer and very upfront and straightforward. He is very affordable. He is logical in his strategy and has great success on his cases. He has helped several of my friends.

  2 years ago
• Morgan C· via Google

  By far the best immigration lawyer in the area. James's personality is interesting and he doesn't click with everyone, but honestly do you want someone to be your friend or get you approved? He is great at what he does and his prices are reasonable. He will not make you false promises and he tells it like it is.

  10 years ago
• Christopher Buscher· via Google

  Extremely rude on the phone. Seemed very arrogant and would not even answer any simple questions. I was not asking any legal advice or specifics just a very general question on average prices for immigration law services. He would only repeat two phrases over and over again: "I am very good at what I do ask anyone..." and "I charge $100 to review the case"... What a jerk. Just a complete jerk.... He might be great at what he does but he is (from my horrible experience on the phone with him) a complete jerk in my opinion. By the way the phone call could only last less than three minutes because he was just getting more and more rude with me. Good luck sir, you probably don't need it, but good luck to you.

  8 years ago
• Sandra Gaytan· via Google

  Jessica Maffitt was our family lawyer and ia a great person she help us so much thank you and God Bless you

  7 months ago
• Benjamin· via Google

  The "consultation" is a complete scam. After already gaining legal advice and consultation from a different firm, the best course of action was my spouse and I to get married, and start the process for immigration. However we wanted to also check other firms and see if they may say anything different. The first almost 20 minutes was Mr Benzoni saying every negative thing under the sun with the most pessimistic and negative tones. There's a difference between being honest about the difficulties and being flat out disheartening. I honestly got concerned because his tone, attitude, and the way he was going about all this straight from the start gave me little to no faith with this firm. And I confronted him on that, asking if I could get some positive expression about the process of any kind. It felt so defeatist right out the gate and why in gods name would I hire a firm that has that kind of attitude? Benzoni started with ignoring my inputs, constantly insinuating I was ignorant of the process, berating me for not going to him or getting legal advice first. Then when I finally corrected him (this was after several minutes of talking at me, not to me.) His tone hard shifted and jumped straight to telling me I can go to the other law firm instead if I want to. I tried to tell him that I came to him on recommendation from a friend at work who immigrated to the US through him. I tried my best to deescalate the situation. (which is insane that a potential client has to be the one to calm down the attorney) I had questions I needed to ask in order to best plan things out and figure out what needed to be expected and what the fees would look like going forward. Other than the initial fee of $2500, we weren't even able to cover the details for after the i130, where I'd have asked if they were going to continue along with us after that point or not, because he got so caught up on trying to shove me off of the call, he kept telling me about his extensive experience in this fi

  a year ago
• Roberto Cortes Ortiz· via Google

  I've worked with Jim Benzoni as his client and he as my immigration attorney for well over a decade and because of his advice, I am now stuck in a country that I left when I was approximately one year of age. He has never been a great person to speak to. He has always been rude at best, but has completed my work in a timely and fair manner however, I think a gigantic Asterix is that I believe that that is probably due in part to his paralegals and or his administrative staff because that is who I've had the most contact with, and when I speak with him, he is extremely argumentative and extremely biased. I think that might be the best way to put it. I'm not sure if it's projection or what it is but he will try to blame you and you know I've worked with him since before I was an adult, practically, and now as an adult, I see that when you are spending thousands of dollars on top of thousands of dollars you really should be paying for a service to at least not be, at a minimum, a jerk to you as far as immigration services at this " law firm" I would seriously and I mean seriously look elsewhere anywhere and perhaps outside of the state of Iowa. Good luck. P.s the secretary or whatever title the person who answers the phone has, she is also rude.

  3 months ago