Peter D Hoffman

Cannot recommend at all. I hired this man and at four hundred and ninety five an hour, I expected him to do the job he was hired to do. He did not accomplish that, he quit. He dragged a simple matter with medical diagnoses for close to a year and in the end did absolutely nothing but botch it in my ...opinion. He went way off target from what I hired him to do, then tried to blame me for not giving him strong evidence for how HE wanted it all to go. I was transparent from the start, and who's interest he was working for I have no idea, but in my opinion it wasn't mine. It was a very bad experience that further traumatized my child. He outright messed up medical diagnosis and documentation, as far as to say one did not exist (surprising even professional medical staff who wrote it months prior). He professionally advised keeping an item in the notice of claim after I told him it was incorrect. He could not explain himself as to how he messed up what I hired him to do even after he said it was simple, that he had a working relationship with my district and had worked with them before and had a cousin on the board. He couldn't explain how he missed the medical documention except to not answer my question and to offer to help a new attorney (considering my experince with his previous service, said no thank you). He also could not explain why he was trying to switch blame at the end, for a lack of evidence (after close to a year of him working this case mind you) for a path that he professionally chose this case to go in. Again, he should have stuck to what I hired him for. He even irritated my medical staff by his not filling out requests properly. Cannot reccomend.

I was a client of Peter Hoffman and utilized his services on a special education issue. I cannot recommend this attorney. He failed to adequately read contracts. For example, he overlooked a key clause. This clause released the district from all previous and future responsibilities as they rela...ted to the very issue we hired Mr. Hoffman. There were also problems with his billing. He promised us monthly bills. All we asked is that we be kept apprise of the hours being billed to us. There was only so much we could afford. We made Peter Hoffman aware of our concerns. He never billed us. He just had a bill collector call and demand more money to replenish our security deposit. Only then did we receive a bill. After that we took copious records and made recordings of our conversations. That was when we discovered his bill were not consistent with his actual work. In one instance he charged us for ½ hour or $250.00. We checked the recording and the call was under 1.5 minutes. That was when we released him. He conjured up reasons for keeping the majority of our security deposit. The worst part was that Mr. Hoffman attempted to bully us. He insisted that the only choice we had was to send our son away to an out of state school. Thank god that did not happen. After loosing $20,000; we feel so abused by Mr. Hoffman.

Peter was a wonderful advocate for our family during many interactions with the local school district following our daughter's medical disability diagnosis. Peter responded quickly to our telephone calls and emails. He was also readily available for consultations. We will always remember his reassuri...ng presence and the expert legal advice that he gave us.

Peter served my family on two occasions to secure funding for private special education. It is a long and uncertain process, but he was up-front that it would be. In the end we got as good a deal as I think we could expect. Peter knows the process very well, gives good advice and moves things alon...g as well as anyone. Furthermore, Peter was helpful in resolving some differences of opinion between me and my ex wife that threatened to derail the process. He is knowledgeable, honest, and fair.