Francelina Maria Perdomo-Klukosky

I retained Fran as my attorney because I was a victim of fraud and had lost $60k in a ponzi scheme. Fran had pursued a TRO to obtain some sort of restraining order on the culprit's accounts, which sounds great, but not so much when her own private investigator reported that the culprit had no assets.... She is like an in-app purchase where every $5000 she would ask for more to move on to the next step of the legal process. I have emails begging, demanding, cajoling her to explain the legal process, to be clear about what our objectives are and what she was trying to achieve for me, only to find out from a second opinion that it's near impossible to get any money back from a dead beat. I spent over $20k on her and never once did she mention anything about getting any sort of judgment which is what I pushed for thanks to again, a second opinion. She became very defensive and unprofessional, especially when she realized I had another lawyer providing more practical and less expensive solutions. I am still to this day unsure whether she was deliberately being unclear or purposefully confusing about the legal process. What made things worse is she became condescending with the way she treated me. Fran claims she is a partner, but neither her communication skills, her legal advice, nor her treatment of a client justifies her "partner rate" of $300/hr. She can counter all she wants with technicalities on this review like she did arguing with me, her client. But I will warn you, you will spend money and not know what it is your trying to achieve and how much more you will need to spend to get there because she was so poor at communicating her strategy and condescending when you didnt get it. You will be throwing money in a black hole. I'm in finance and not law Fran so it would have been nice for you to at least act like a partner and make it seem like I'm getting my money's worth but you made me feel like I was conned all over again. Please feel free to refute this as you did trhoughout my case, but I'm happy to share my emails with anyone who is thinking about retaining her as I have plenty to back up my claims about her treatment and my consistent requests for clarification on what we were trying to achieve. You will be stunned by her responses.

I was engaged with Francelina M. Perdomo's firm as a client for over a month - she herself was my attorney. The firm solicited a retainer of USD 3500 from me in the case of appalling non-performance from a New York based publisher Apress, promising me legal action as well as damages. A month later, t...hey stated no damages were admissible. I asked the firm for a mere termination of publication. Madam Perdomo responded that was not possible/feasible and proffered her opinion that she considered me mentally deranged ! During the one month of engagement, neither she nor the associate assigned to work on my case asked me even a single question related to the case. The associate (Antoneta Tarpanova) never even emailed me or called me. I did, of my own volition, proffer high-quality documentation (~ 15 pages). At the end of the engagement, the firm sent me a bill of USD 4700 for reading those 15 pages (and doing nothing else whatever !)

Our firm has worked closely with Francelina for many years. She is responsive and creative when providing legal advice. What we like most about her is her proactive, efficient and cost-effective approach. She is very honest about chances of success and at the same time creative in finding alternative... solutions to each matter she handles. She is very knowledgeable and passionate in her areas of practice, which is an excellent combination for delivering the best legal services one could ask for.

Francelina is great at her job! As soon as I had my first conversation with her I felt at ease and confident that she was on my side and she knew what she was doing. She's always available to talk and answered every question I had with extreme patience since I don't really understand all the lawyer m...umbo-jumbo. She's fully bilingual so when I needed help with a case for my mom she was able to talk to her directly and explain what was going on. Super happy with the work and service she provided.