Carol Ann Crossett

My husband is a combat Veteran, 82nd airborne with two tours in Somalia. We purchased our NNY property with a VA loan. We experienced immediate issues with a property easement issue where we are the servient estate. The dominant estate creates an undue burden with a hazardous utility panel that cross...es our property. Not only is there a burden to the property owners (the Veteran family), there is also an infringement on the property title. We hired the Latham NY office of Tully Rinckey and they gave our case to Carol Crossett (Partner, Manhattan). Ms. Crossett is perhaps the most obnoxiously arrogant, rude, unethical, shrew on the face of this planet. In addition to her terrible demeanor, she was lazy in acquiring knowledge of the case and her grasp of property law is apparently so poor that she tried to convince us, her client, the Veteran family, to pay for all of the costs to resolve the overburdened easement and infringement. The opposing counsel admitted in court documents that she had told him that we didn't have a case. She was wrong. Further, she drained our $15k retainer by pretending that she couldn't understand the difference between a utility panel, a utility meter, and a utility pole. She feined ignorance to elicit explanation emails so she could bill us for our responses to her nonsensical questions. Our experience with Tully Rinckey and Carol Crossett was one big grift. Luckily, another firm stepped in at no cost to us to resolve the civil dispute and the encroachment, and at no expense to us. Tully Rinckey doesn't support Veterans, they exploit them. Carol Crossett is a master shyster, and highly unethical.