Glenn R Reiser

We are a large corporation located in the Midwest. Mr. Reiser was recommended to us by one of our relationship counsels in the eastern U.S. He handled the defense of a bankruptcy violation case filed in NJ against our company. He is well-experienced and knowledgeable in the bankruptcy arena and i...s tenacious, passionate, reality-grounded, succinct. He ensured that we knew the status along the way and our options. He handled our defense quickly and efficiently to a favorable resolution.

We were engaged in a very difficult and complicated case...I am a very demanding , inquisitive, detail oriented professional....I know I was not always easy for Glenn to control ...not to mention listen to my temper tantrums..... Well....without going into details, we won our case & had an opinion ...written....Glenn is an incredible professional. I am proud to say he was with me in my foxhole when the battle was being waged.. I wish him all the best in his career and practice....Dont think about it too long...hire him! I would in a nano second!

I am a person with Down Syndrome and I felt our lawyer Glenn Reiser kept me out of the talks concerning our case. When I told him I wanted to testify he told me to “sit in the courtroom and look pretty”. Glenn was not nice to my mom and Glenn told her if we did not agree to the settlement he came up ...with he would walk out on us and not be our lawyer any more. This made my mother very upset that she cried. I was upset and disappointed too. Glenn is not a nice person at all. I am my own person and he did not listen to my advice. This is my own review. Thank you very much.

Glenn Reiser and his firm Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel & Di Iorio, LLP fell way short in their handling of my case. In our initial consultation, Glenn and his brother Stuart promised to build our case and would listen to our concerns and follow our needs by letting us be “in the driver’s seat”.... Well, it just came out that Stuart's motto from another review that was left for the firm two months ago follows the old adage  "a bad settlement is better than a good lawsuit". The other plaintiff and I let them know from the beginning that in order for a fair settlement to be reached the path to be taken would be for us to go to trial and have an impartial judge make the decision. We knew this from knowing the defendants mindset that mediation would be a waste of time. If we knew then that this was this attorney’s viewpoint we would not have chosen them. Although it is true this may work for most cases it was not the way to go for us. “A bad settlement is better than a good trial,” is the kind of thing a trial lawyer says to a client/plaintiff when recommending a settlement offer that is less than full compensation for the wrong (that is, 99.9% of settlements) when the wronged client balks at the settlement but the trial lawyer thinks it is, on balance, a (relatively) good deal. This certainly was a fitting mantra for them as a bad settlement is exactly what they got us. As Abraham Lincoln noted "A good settlement is better than a good lawsuit" and when mediation didn’t work with our first attorney where the defendants stretched out the billing hours and refused to even come up with a counter offer we knew for sure that a trial was the only way for us to get a fair deal. Reiser’s following the adage of a bad settlement is better may work when you are up against insurance companies but was not applicable to our case, considering the unusual mindset and untruthfulness of the defendants in our case. Another bone of contention is that despite Glenn's high fees, his law firm is run very spartanly which looking back should have set off numerous red flags. For starters, Glenn doesn't have an assistant. So everything that is done will be billed at his high rate. Glenn doesn't have Docusign. Glenn doesn't accept any form of electronic payment. He makes you mail a check to him every month. It was also unsettlingly how he'd reach out asking if I mailed the payment in the tone of someone who was expecting that I would renege on the bill. He seemed to be always having his hand out. I wholeheartedly suspect he most likely consciously drove up billing hours wherever he could. Glenn also failed to inform us that a legal malpractice case was filed against him and his firm back in April 2023.  Although Mr. Reiser boasts that this case is frivolous and the client a nut job (then why was he your client?) the case, even though Glenn has tried to get it thrown out, is still pending so the courts still believe it has merit. You can look it up for yourself. Just put this in the search engine: CASTRO v. REISER et al Within roughly the first year after being retained by us he pointed out some legal malpractice issues with our case committed by our previous counsel. We had a malpractice attorney contact him and after that he acted very strangely by just trying to close the case no matter how badly the outcome turned out for us. Glenn also displayed incompetence at times by not answering and ignoring important questions we posed to him in our emails. We asked for copies of our case files which he agreed to send to us however, never did.   During our second day of trial, the judge said everyone preferred being back in court in-person after the pandemic. Glenn responded to the judge he was getting tired standing during the questioning. Glenn not only charges his full rate driving to court and back but he charges his full rate waiting for court to begin. Not even the experts we had appearing in court did that.