Michael Paul DiRaimondo

Worked with him in immigration through the IJ and BIA stages, and fired him after he let us down for the second time at the BIA. We were in a much worse position after working with Diraimondo. Not at all effective as an attorney, extremely overpriced, and dismissive and unprofessional. One am...ongst many such rude occurrences was when he called me to be aggressive and rude to me about how I was allegedly "being rude to his secretary," which was an absurd and false accusation he made because I wanted to pick up my documents from their offices. He didn't listen to our pleas to include several strong evidence-backed arguments, and later it became clear that those arguments were extremely important. Instead of admitting to his mistake he continued to make more mistakes and put our case into an even worse position. Worse than all of this, after we fired him, he went out to insult me, my father and my family before the very government prosecutors against whom we hired him to defend us, for sending him "nonsense illegible papers.... that he had no time to waste on" though he never said anything of the sort when we were actually working together. Again, turns out later, these "nonsense papers" he didn't want to read and lied to us about--while at the same time charging us $450/hour for 0.1hours, and 3.3hours and .7 hours and 1.6 hours, etc etc "for reviewing documents"--turned out to have all the arguments he failed to mention in his awful "brief." When I fired him, he started texting me and harassing me, trying to get me to pay him another ~$10,000 for work he didn't do. Also something that only occurred to me later after firing him is that I doubt he ever read most of the documents we sent him nor did he write any of the briefs. I believe he has a bunch of other younger attorneys at his little facade of a "law firm" to whom he contracts out his work that people paid for HIM to do. His bills also have several other lackeys listed as receiving the money we were paying him. Deceitful. I would not recommend working with Diraimondo as I believe he is an awful attorney who will put you in a worse position than you started, and it will cost you thousands upon thousands. I could write pages more and include more details. I only wish I could attach documents as I would gladly attach his "work" here as well as his text messages to me. Again, I could write pages more, but I am not going to bother wasting my time on this guy, and you shouldn't either.

Please be aware of anything they tell you and promise in the initial interview because none of it will happen later on. They just want your deposit money so that they can later bill you 0.5 hour/$450 for reading an e-mail from you. They will have you thinking that because of their connections and par...tner's prior employments will help speed up your case. It is untruthful. Furthermore their paralegal and associate lawyer's are rude and ignorant. They have delayed our case 2 months because legal documents were drafted with BOTH parties names misspelled even thought they had our legal documents to double check to. Later when asked about any of their mistakes they become rude and defensive.