Aniello David Cerreto

Your welcome. Being truthful direct and zealous to truth and the reasonable result is the mark of a quality lawyer.

I am passionate about people and truth

Thank you for the kind words.

Thanks Sean. I appreciate the kind words.

Only truth

Anytime sir.

People matter.

Same here sir.

I try to put myself in peoples shoes.

And I would do it again.

Experience does help me to help you!

Truth, slow and steady wins the race.

Thanks Darlene

I am an honest man. See my many referrals from clients and lawyers. I know who this is. He is not being honest at all. To refer to me as Machiavelli is a cruel joke if not Slander/Libel. I even walked away and forgave being owed over $7,000.00 from this person because he was so unreasonable rather than take more of his unreasonable verbal abuse and this is the thanks I get. Before I was hired this person had signed a settlement agreement waiving alimony. He came to me with medical records identifying his mental illness and he requested assistance of me to try and get out of what he had done. His prior lawyer had abandoned him and even asked him to cease and desist from contacting him any more. I filed a motion to vacate my clients default default and it was granted. I also filed a motion to vacate the settlement agreement and in Passaic county the motion became pending by the court for quite some time . I later learned my client had contacted the court on his own without telling me his lawyer. Rather than kick this client to the curb for not paying the over $7,000.00 he owed me pursuant to the terms of his retainer agreement, and respecting his situation and mental illness, I cut him some slack on the $7,000.00 in good faith by me, I then for a nominal $750.00 payment continued to try and help him. I also negotiated with the adversary and was able to get the lawyer and his client to agree to pay alimony to my client. When my client wanted more than the other side would agree too, it became my fault in this clients misguided thinking. Had the client never signed the settlement agreement on his own before hiring me, things in his case would have been different but that was beyond my control. The problem was he wanted an OJ defense but expected to pay pennies on the dollar for it. I did all I could but he decided to not cooperate, tell lies, not pay, and he did not fire me, I requested for him to him sign a substitution of attorney on 6-25-2015 or I was going to file a motion to be relieved as his lawyer due to his lies and attempted manipulations. He took 8 months and 2 weeks until 3-7-2016 to sign it only after he realized I was serious and was going to file and expose him to the court. He was trying to steal my services while not paying for all he could get. Selfishly angry that he has to pay for legal representation to continue his desired litigation with his ex-wife who left him and who I have never met or spoken to, I cannot even tell you what the woman looks like as I dealt with her lawyer on the phone, and angry the case did not go all the way he wanted, he decided to follow me and continues to fabricate the same untrue claim wherever he can about me. Its all fabricated hog wash. I don't secretly negotiate, I don't manipulate, I don't do anything dishonest. I did not intentionally have him come to court on a snow day. I have 23 years since 1992 of honesty and helping people. This man gave me his medical records proving he has significant and professionally medically documented mental illness issues beyond lawyer and client and I tried to help him. Its just unfortunate I am on his radar now. When I caught him lying to the court rather than own up to the truth, I confronted him. His reply to me was Aniello please please please forgive me you know I am not well. Please help me. Well not only did I forgive him, I went back and tried to help him some more, and now for my efforts I have to deal with his constant lies and stalking me out of his frustrations with his life and that he cant get the alimony number he wanted during my time in his case and he refused to pay to continue to go after it, and perhaps his jealously of his lawyer as an independent self made man who stood up to his lies and unreasonable rudeness. I wish him nothing but well. But do not be misled people, I am an honest man. I have referrals from clients, and established lawyers. All I do is help people. It's my life. Peace

I suspect I know who has posted this lie because avvo does not allow attorneys to know who puts up anonymous posts. Attorneys agree to use the site as is. Also, this client never voiced any concerns or objections during the representation. I learned of it for the first time when reviewing my profile. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, this purported client (coincidently?) does not provide "any" detail that can be addressed with a detailed response. It's unfortunate after 23+ years of hard work as a caring lawyer that dishonest posts can be allowed to stand in a public forum when Avvo's review process is NOT inclusive of both sides in that there is NO OBJECTIVE MUTUAL PARTICIPATION FACT FINDING PROCESS. Attorneys agree to use the site as is. I have zero knowledge of what this person said to avvo for avvo to decide to allow this untrue post to stand. I also do not appreciate that there is no process to prevent false accusations by meritoriously vetting it "before" it is allowed to be posted. If someone tells avvo a false story and convinces avvo to decide to post it, your stuck, even if you close your account, they keep it up on you. I did speak with my account representative David at avvo before this second comment. Their position was simply procure and post more client reviews. I agreed to use the site as is. How unfair is that?