My lawyer was more concerned with being polite to oppose a counsel who is trying to blackmail me then standing up for my rights
I hired Maura Greene Law Group In dire straits after a biased manager successfully orchestrated a cats, paw pattern, manipulation of my employer painting me as an underperformer and resulting in my termination to negotiate a fair severance agreement. When our demand letter was received, opposing coun...sel responded with a nominal offer representing less then 2 percent of our fair ask, and the punctuated their lowball offer with a threat: accept this offer or we will publish your private slack messages where you confided in your managers and team mates about incredibly personal family affairs to humiliate you. My attorney from MGLG did not call this coercion out as retaliation, I had to call it out.My former employer then said There would be no more negotiations and the 2 week offer Of severance that they made would be the one and only. When I asked that we leverage a complaint to the MCAD about The attempted blackmail, my MGLG attorney advised that that was a bad idea with the recommendation and this is an actual quote: "While we certainly want to consider using any leverage we can to push for a better outcome, we also want to avoid taking an approach that could cause them to disengage from negotiations (particularly before we are able to introduce ourselves to the newly assigned attorneys and get an idea of where things might be headed)."
This is after opposing council attempted to blackmail me and actually wound up doing so publishing those intimate conversations on the public record. this threat did not seem to be a very big concern to my attorney, however, being polite to them was a very big concern. At no point did I feel like my attorney was on my side. Well she was concerned that they would potentially disengage from negotiations, this was 2 months after my former employer had already stated quite clearly that there would be no negotiations and so there was really nothing for this attorney who was not interested in litigation to negotiate. nonetheless, rather than say hey, we know you have very limited funds to fight a huge employer. you are better served going elsewhere because we're not willing any to advocate strongly on your behalf. they just spent $2,500 in my retainer replying to my email's begging them to do something.Ultimately I ran out of money and had to continue on Pro se. I recommend you carefully read your engagement agreement to make sure that if your attorneys who you hire to negotiate severance are unable to begin negotiations that you are due a refund because I was not. I spent $5,000 to have my attorney for Maura Greene ask me if I wanted to accept the coerced lowball offer that my former employer made me rather than call out retaliation and fight on my behalf.
if that sounds like the kind of attorney you want then definitely look these guys up. otherwise I would suggest strongly you try and find someone that gives a sh*t about you.