Michael J Palumbo

Do not contact for EZ pass violations - He is offering a 80% reduction of all fines and can guarantee your license not be suspended. This all sounds great. Too bad all you have to do is contact EZ pass yourself and they will offer this to you without the presence of a lawyer. So, I have to ask what ...is the $2000 fee actually for?

Hired consular Palumbo and his team a year ago for a 6 point speeding ticket 71 on a 50. Saw the many five star reviews on avvo and decided to hire him. $1200 is the most I ever paid to retain a traffic court attorney compared to the $150-$250 I paid to other attorneys on previous citations. ...I would think his office did the best they could but for $1200 its totally not worth it. In hindsight I would not hire him and paid that ridiculous amount. He did get the 6 point down to a 4 point but from a ROI perspective its not worth it.

I contacted.the DA office as soon as I got the ticket. The DA offered to give me two point and standard fine. As I am a resident of Florida two points would just count as any number of points as Florida would impose three points on me if I was charged with any points in another state. I contacted Mr ...Palumbo and told him about the DA offer. Mr Palumbo said he would try to get me a better deal and he normally gets good results. However, he said, if he could not get a better deal he would revert to the original offer made by the DA. When Mr Palumbo received my signed retainer and all the documents, the offer was still valid for 10 more days. Eight days after the initial conference, when you decide you would accept an offer or go to trial, I received an email from one of his delegates saying that they resolved my case and got me three points plus the standard fine. They also gave me the wrong legal advice by saying that I can remove up to four points if I took a driving school in New York, not being aware that my license is issued in Florida and in order to qualify for the points reduction my license had to be issued by NYS. Florida won't allow driving school to reduce points on an out of state ticket. I told his delegate that the original offer was for two points and they responded immediately saying do not pay the fine we will get back to you. TWO WEEKs later I found an email from Mr Palumbo saying that the offer of two point had expired and that in law any offer can be withdrawn unless accepted. Then why did not he accepted when he had the time to do that as the offer was, according to the letter from the DA, still valid for ten more days. During those 10 days he would have been able to negotiate a better deal and if not as he original promised, revert to the offer that was on the table. He insists that every thing was made in a timely manner and no delay in management the case was encountered. The case did not even go to court. He did not even file a discovery request to check what was wrong with the officer or their equipment. I have had a clean driving record for over 30 years. I have never been stopped for speeding or even any other minor offense, my driving record was sent to Mr Palumbo with the retainer. A person with this driving history is worth standing a trial. Mr Palumbo boasts his firm is the only firm that offers money back guarantee which I had to ask for after he left me worse off regarding the number of points, fine and also the fees paid to him. I asked for that, he said you do not have a right for a refund. He claimed that the original proposed charge was 6 points and he managed to reduced them to three. Which is not my case as my original proposed charge was two points and he managed to upgrade it to three points. My take on him is if he could not get a better deal that what the DA originally offered, he should have gone to trial. When I Told him that he said you would've needed to come all the way to New York if he went for trial. I did not have the slightest objection to that. I had a clean driving record and wanted to keep it clean that is why I hired him in the first place. Also if I hired an attorney why did have I have to appear in court when I already gave him an authorization to appear on my behalf. I did not like the way Mr Palumbo handled my case, he left me worse off than when I hired him. He gets paid for me to be in a better position not a worse one. I did not like his false claim of money back guarantee. He claimed that he reduced the charge when the charge was already less than what he got eventually. I was wrong to expect the lawyer I hired and paid from my hard earned money to be on my side. I was wrong to expect honesty and proper handling of a case as I thought lawyers would do. I was wrong to think that the lawyer I hired would argue on my behalf not argue with me giving me false statements. I have evidence in email correspondences available for inspection

I retained the services of MJP three to four years ago to fight two cell phone violations. After paying a $1400 retainer (because each ticket was $700 retainer fee), the outcomes I received were less than satisfactory. This was by far the least professional office I have ever dealt with (and I work i...n a law office)-specifically, I had to continously contact this office to see what was going on with the cases and/or if I had to prepare my own statement and/or if I had to come to court. It became so bad I had to contact MJP himself to get clarification on the matters through facebook. No one from his office (not an attorney supposedly assigned to my case or a paralegal) bothered to contact me and ask me what happened, how I got the tickets, was there any reasonable or justifiable excuse for the tickets, etc. No one bothered to ask me to come down or testify on my behalf. The end result: I got 10 points for both tickets after waiting 3 years for them to be resolved, I had to pay a drivers responsibility fee of $750 (for both tickets), and I had to pay a fine of $276 (both tickets). There was no point in retaining this law firm when they did absolutely nothing for me other than take my money. There was no effort made to even help reduce the points. Least to say next time I will just plead guilty pay my fine and accept the points and not waste $1400.00. I would not recommend this attorney or his office to anyone.