Robin Marmon Loguidice

Robin LoGuidice and her partner Bob Grimble were recommended to me when I was served papers by unscrupulous landlords who bought my building in order to flip it. These landlords were using aggressive methods to try to evict me from my rent regulated apartment . Robin and Bob took on my case and I'm v...ery pleased that we won after a little over 1 year. They were professional, kind, and always many steps ahead of me when it came to the law and what they predicted the landlords would do to try and win their case. They advised me when to be proactive, and what my rights were, many which I would not have known otherwise if I had taken my case to the DHCR. They were also realistic in what I could expect as an outcome. In the end, I couldn't be happier with the final ruling. I got to stay in my apartment, got some repairs made, and my lease was awarded to me at the legal rent. Other tenants in the building who hired counsel (for other issues) were not as happy with their results. I highly recommend them.

I have used Robin twice personally with SUCESS. RESULTS are what matters. I have recommended her to family and friends. I also know people in my building who have used her and had much success against the landlord in two rent strikes. Both as a collective and individually she has had success in regis...tering rent stabilized apartments, winning back rent, settlements, and getting work done for the building. We are now battling a restaurant going in under our apartment with both the community board and state liquor authority and she has gone in full force and I cannot be more pleased with her tenacity, communication and transparency. Not to mention her sense of humor. Even in the face of Big Money she does not shy away, she goes in for the kill. I LOVE working with her and highly recommend her!!!!!!

The tenants in my building formed a Tenants Association in 2003, and hired Robin LoGuidice as our attorney. She helped us organize (get a NY State Tax ID, a Bank account, and submit as relevant forms for a legal association). Robin, and her partner, Robert Gimble, successfully led us through two "...rent strikes" against two different landlords. I was the President of the TA for 12 years, and dealt with Robin on a continual basis. She is a terrific advocate for her clients. Fierce and tenacious, with good humor, is a way i describe her. And, she does not "sugar-coat".....you are told what actions are required, and what it takes to be successful in any legal action. She is our counsel today, summer 2015, for another petition regarding our Landlord renting commercial space to two restaurants on the ground floor of our building. Because of Robin, our building went from a dirty firetrap, with real code violations that threatened our very existence, to a clean, well run walk-up tenement that we are proud to live in. I do not hesitate to recommend Robin to any client seeking a strong advocate for their case.

Her and her partner Robert spent 3 years basically working on our case pretty much expecting a large settlement and had no interest in litigating our case. They were discourteous when we tried to contact them, lied to us about the progress of the case, didnt show up to court appearances leaving us to... handle adjournments for them on top of so many more mistakes that harmed our case. After 3.5 years of working on our case they got us the same settlement offer that the other side offered us in the beginning but they would be paid in full for their trumped up bills. When we didn't take it Grimble and LoGudice moved quickly to sue us for back fees frankly they didn't earn or deserve. In our last meeting Robert admitted that they hadn't worked on the Discovery that the other side asked for 3 years accusing us of not answering questions on it that even Robin pointed out that was their part. On top of everything theynwere never able to win any repair or problems in court while we lived in substandard conditions that the landlord would not remedy because they were trying to force us out by harrassment. Robert and robin never helped our problem and when I set up a housing court hearing to repair these problems they neglected to show up leaving us defenseless. They caused us financial losses to the other side because they mismanaged our rent to the landlord who defrauded us out of a couple months rent and almost lost our case in the process. They blamed us in this situation just like they blame us for their constant lack of oversight. I would never refer these 2 to anyone, they only care about themselves and lack true professionalism as lawyers.

To clarify why I can only give the lowest rating for Knowledgeable (under overall rating) is because she has been unresponsive in giving me information and I've had to inform her about matters she said she would look into and take care of for my case. Therefore she has shared no information with me ...about the progress of my case which would lead me to believe she has no knowledge of it. However information was given, though inaccurate, about the balance of money that was left with her by me to cover future work. I reminded her that money had been left with her, and when she returned from checking this out, the figure she gave me was a little over half of what I had actually left. She did not show me the receipt she had given me (which I have in my file) to verify her calculation. She doesn't return calls, send letters or faxes, and inform me of developments, all of these being time sensitive, to the point that deadline dates are ignored and pass and a necessary appearance in court is unattended by our side. I work to find out the ramifications of this negligence to find when informing her of what's developed that she seemingly has no knowledge of what's happening and future dates. Her inactions have caused me much more stress in an already tense situation thus affecting my already poor state of health. I will terminate my association with her before I lose the case.