Hasanuzzaman Malik

Contacted him about a real estate lease transfer. A family friend referred him so gave him a call. Couldn’t find anything about him online though I found his website maliklawoffices.com later which says call for a free consultation. So the call went fine and he forwarded his email address for me to s...end a copy of the lease. He also mentioned that his fee depends on the amount of work but also that for my case it should be around $1000. It took me a week to get the lease from the other party and I emailed it to him stating that I would like to move forward ASAP. It was Friday 5pm. There was no reply or acknowledgement so gave him a call but didn’t pick up. Also texted him but no reply. Finally a at about 8pm my wife gave him a call from her number which he did pick up. So she again mentioned the same case at the end of which he said it will cost around $1500 to which she said it was a bit high. So it sounded like he wasn’t interested in the case anymore so I texted him to please ignore the message and the email(to which the lease was attached) because we weren’t going forward with the case(with him), to which he replied “no problem. Already Ignored”. Remember he didn’t reply to my email, call or text before. Fair enough if he wasn’t interested in the case anymore but after asking someone to forward a document and to just “ignore” them when they do, whatever may be the reason, is unprofessional in my opinion. The fee is not really an issue for us but reliability is. Subtle it might be but this kind of attitude is something you should be wary of while choosing a lawyer we have found out the hard way from another lawyer we hired before.