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Posted by Thomas | August 23, 2016
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I needed a lawyer for a few traffic tickets I got and I consulted his firm. I told them my situation and they told me I needed to retain them right away because my traffic tickets were bad and I was gonna need to give them 2 grand to help get out of them. I said that sounds steep for traffic tickets,...
This guy was doing 115 MPH on the Long Island Expressway in a 55 MPH zone. In addition had 2 lane change violations, before the Suffolk County Traffic Violations Agency. He called on Monday, August 22, 2016 The day after 6 people were killed in Suffolk County in an accident caused by a driver doing over 100 MPH. The case was in one of the worse courts in NY State at the worse time. The court is being sued in Federal District Court for civil right's violations against the motorists who come before it. You can read about it here: http://www.trafficticketlawyersblog.com/2015/07/suffolk-county-traffic-violations-bureau-sued-in-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-violation-of-the-civil-rights-of-motorists-defending-charges-before-the-court/. He was doing 115 MPH in a 55 MPH zone. Let me repeat - 115 MPH in a 55 MPH zone - PLUS 2 unsafe lane changes. He's "that guy" you see on the road who puts your child's life in danger. This guy needs an attorney. Badly. Even if he were before the softest court in the State there is no mercy for this guy. There is no leniency for this guy. He's in a venue that remands motorists; i.e., send them to prison, with questionable authority. That suspends and revokes licenses like they are taking candy from a baby. This guy, who claims to be a salesman, claims that I was selling my services. He says it like it's something I should be ashamed of. If helping people make a decision which is good for them is selling, then I'm a salesman. While I was happy to discuss the case with him and give him a free phone consultation believe me when I say that this is the kind of case I can take or leave at any price. Once this guy told me the charges against him, the first thing I told him was "the question is not whether or not you are going to lose your license, the question is whether or not you are going to jail." Now, does that sound like a "hard sell" to you? In discussing the case with him, the man did not have the mental capacity to understand how bad of shape he is in. He was fixated on saving his license which, unless the cop who wrote the ticket disappeared from face of the earth, is NEVER going to happen. He was so stuck on not losing his license that to keep the conversation productive I literally had to tell him "picture in your mind's eye your license. Picture it now growing wings and flying away, like in a cartoon. That's what's going to happen to your license." He is also lying that I asked him for $2,000.00. I said that it would cost him AT LEAST $2,000.00 and likely more. This case was going to take a lot of mitigation and finesse. I was going to have to put together a huge specials package and have him take not only the defensive driving class, but the alive at 25 program as well. I was going to have to interview him extensively and get him into anger management counseling. In other words, I was going to have to humanize him before the court. Quite difficult to do under the best of circumstances with a guy driving like a maniac. A tall order and total uphill battle before the Suffolk TVA Court. He also lied when he said I asked him for payment. We never got that far. The man was arrogant beyond belief, self righteous, in denial, and had unrealistic expectations. Hiring an attorney is not like hiring a gardener. It's a relationship. Despite the court and the type of charges, I would have represented him, as I am not here to judge. However, this guys most egregious lie is that I asked him for the sale. Quite to the contrary, I ended the conversation by rejecting the case when I realized he was so unrealistic. I simply told him that I was not interested in taking his case. I turned him down because he would have been a train wreck of an unmanageable client. He was rejected and his ego got bruised, which drove him to write this dishonest review. He should be ashamed of himself for his selfish behavior in the way he drives, and for his dishonest review left purely out of spite.
Posted by Scott | August 17, 2016
5 stars. Quick response time.
I beat my traffic ticket with the expert help of attorney Palumbo. He is very knowledgeable and accessable. I highly recommend hiring him for any driving related matters.
Posted by anonymous | August 11, 2016 | Hired Attorney
Speeding ticket in NYC
Read a lot of good reviews before using their services and all of it is true. Had a 6 point speeding ticket in NYC dismissed. Have read all over the Internet how hard it is to accomplish but Palumbo and associates got it done. I will be recommending their service to all my friends. Also, all contact ...
Posted by anonymous | August 05, 2016 | Hired Attorney
citation in staten island ny
honestly what made me go with michael j polumbo were the reviews that i read ,to start of iam very disappointed with his experience i received a citation in staten island for a cell phone ticket about 4 months ago ,they claim that staten island has the worst court system and hard to win cases i agr...
This review could not be more disingenuous, false and dastardly. He should be ashamed of himself for writing it. However,, since he posted it everyone can benefit from it as a cautionary tale of why you should never try to defend a traffic ticket by yourself. By reading this you are going to greatly benefit from this past client's mistake and mishandling of this ticket. This client came to us already having gotten his license suspended for failing to appear in court. However, before that he burnt his 1 free adjournment by accepting a 1 month adjournment. We would have never accepted such a short date. In other words, this is what he did - he plead "not guilty" and they sent him a court date. He had it adjourned a whopping month (which was his only adjournment of right), and then he failed to appear in court. His license was then suspended and he went to the court and did not know what he needed to do in order to get his license un-suspended. So he got the case back on the calendar without un-suspending his license. He calls us at 3:00 the DAY BEFORE the 8:30 a.m. hearing date, and we were still able to get his personal court appearance waived, go to court for him, and do the job for him. The only thing he states is true is that the Staten Island court is horrific. When we appeared in court the next day we had no leverage because he had already ignorantly burned his 1 free adjournment by getting it adjourned a mere month and gotten himself suspended by then failing to appear. Consequently, we had 2 choices (1) get the case adjourned another 10 months WITHOUT having his suspension lifted, or (2) doing the trial that day and resolving the case and his suspension. Obviously, we acted in his best interests and did the trial. Had he come to us when he had first received the ticket none of this would have happened. We always get longer adjourn dates than 1 month on the first date. Then, on a second date when we request an adjournment if they say no we can take no action and post a small bond for another date. In this case his ticket was already bonded (he had did that himself), AND he was suspended (again through no fault of ours). We would have delayed this case at least a year, he would not have gotten suspended, and whether or not he would have been convicted is anyone's guess. However, risk of loss is always on the client, not the law firm. We gave this client a yeoman's service. He called us a mere 17 1/2 hours prior to his court appearance and we were able to service him without charging him a premium for the rush we had to put on the job and the 11th hour rescheduling of our attorneys going to court the next day. By the next day his license suspension was lifted. Further, he was consulted on everything that I expressed here. We told him that it was highly unlikely we could get another date without his license remaining suspended due to the corner that he himself had painted him into. He understood exactly what he had done to himself and could not have been happier that we were going to resolve his suspension and case. He knew that there was a chance he was going to be found guilty. In fact, the actual verdict was secondary to him to just being able to legally drive again. This review cannot be more false and dastardly, and he should be ashamed of himself for writing it.
Posted by Curtis | July 24, 2016 | Hired Attorney
Old Ticket
I got a ticket about a year ago in upstate NY for speeding. I tried to handle it on my own by pleading to a lesser charge. I wrote the ADA because I was from out of state and could not appear in court on the date due. I did nothing and found that my driving privileges were suspended due to non-payme...