Dan Reed Halper

Dan Halper

Even by his own account, this man was NEVER my client and NEVER hired me. To his credit, he did send a check to me with what I believe was a genuine intention to hire me. However, the United States Postal Service mis-sorted his envelope which caused it to be sent to a different address. He accuses me of "Not getting back to me with the end result." This is a blatant falsehood. I immediately began a trace of the envelope and informed him that the envelope was lost. Instead of giving the Post Office a chance to find the envelope he did the prudent thing and canceled the check. The envelope was found the next day and by then his check was canceled and worthless -- so I never had any funds from him and therefore he was never a client and I was never his lawyer. This should have ended the matter. However, he began to demand that I work for him on terms quite different from what we had formerly agreed to. I refused. Soon afterwards he began to threaten to post a negative review of me, if I didn't send him the (now worthless) check. I attempted to send it back to him but he gave me an address that did not exist. Finally I proposed that I meet him in person to hand him back the worthless check. As he states (one of the few parts of the review that is truthful) he woke me up prior to normal business hours eager to meet me. I wasn't able to speak to him at the time, but called him back several times later in the day but he never answered. Finally he posted this absurd review claiming that he had hired me which is quite obviously not the case. When I confronted him with documented evidence that I did indeed immediately move to find the package he finally responded claiming that in his opinion, what I really did wrong was INFORM HIM that his envelope was lost as if keeping him in the dark would have been the proper thing to do. Of course, I don't keep crucial information like this a secret from clients. It would be blatantly unethical.