Sari Martin Friedman

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! If I could give you any piece of advice it would be to stay as far away from this law firm as possible. They are a bunch of crooks and lousy lawyers. They are modern day snake oil salesmen. I have never in my life encountered someone who is as Money Hungry as Sari.. She lacks moral...s and empathy. When you hire a lawyer and pay as much as I did you would expect loyalty and sympathy but not with Sari. She would knock you over to grab a Quarter off the floor..First after having a 20 minute consultation with her via computer I was charged $350 right off the bat. During this consultation I was told that this was a simple Estoppel case that wouldn’t cost more than the $6,000 retainer. Little did I know that this law firm would put my life through a living Hell for a year. She assigned me a partner who as she said only charges $400 a hour while Sari charges $600. First half of the year I was up to date with all my payments. We had the Estoppel hearing and the lawyer I was assigned (Jen) was total out Lawyered by the plaintiffs attorney and we lost. Mind you, the plaintiffs attorney was charging his client nothing and had no problem dragging this case on which he did bc he intended on me paying bill too. The loss in court resulted in me having to pay $1400 a month temporarily in child support for a child I never met and didn’t know about for 12 years. Time dragged on and had another hearing. In this hearing my lawyer (Jen) pissed off the support magistrate who proceeded to raise the child support to $1700 temporarily. In the end I lost everything bc of these lawyers and we had one last hearing for her to attend to. At this point I have paid them $38,000 and had a bill of $4000 left to pay but was making payments of $1000 each month. Jen decides to lie and make me believe that if I signed a promissary note to pay off the balance in 3 months she would finish the last hearing. I signed it sent it over and the next day receive a email that she is dropping me as a client and I need a new lawyer which I couldn’t believe. This last hearing was supposed to be her arguing against the other lawyer about paying each others lawyer fees. How can I get a new lawyer to argue that the plaintiff should pay Jen’s bills without Jen being there??? They are dispicable human beings. Typical money hungry lawyers. Sari is disgusting visually and ethically and Jen lives in pure fear of her. Meanwhile Jen was telling me how she has 38 cases and Sari only handles 2 but can’t contain her lust for money. She would always send me threatening emails after 10pm on weekends Absolutely a nightmare experience that landed me in a facility to deal with the nervous breakdown I had bc of them. Run away and don’t look back at this poor excuse of a law firm. Sari is the worst lawyer I ever met and I’m a cop and deal with defense attorneys all the time. Those defense attorneys look like angels compared to this goblin. At the end of the day I pay $1800 a month in child support for a 12 year old child I never met and never will bc of the deal Jen advised me to take, when she realized I was no longer a money tree they could leech off of. Once I asked to be put on a payment plan they threw me to the curb. Lastly, Jen misssed a deadline for a motion bc she emailed it while I was in the hospital and never called me on the phone to advise me that the deadline was approaching. When I asked her why she didn’t call she said “How was I supposed to know you were in the hospital?” All it would have taken was a phone call and I woulda took my IV out ran to a notary and had it signed. Like I said they are evil. STAY AWAY!!!!

Sari was highly recommended to me by someone who had a great experience with her as her lawyer. For some reason, I did not at all get the same treatment that this woman had and others who left great reviews had. She was not very prepared for court. She forgot to present the very basics like a financi...al affidavit. She never even mentioned it to me and it was asked for by the judge and the opposing side. It was almost impossible to get her to pay attention to my case and to help me prepare, until the same day or night before. She would not speak to me until the day before my court dates. My case was an international one which required her to be knowledgable about how my supporting documents needed to be notarized. I asked her for her guidance in how to make sure that my documents will be accepted in court. She said she didn't know. To look it up myself. I did my best, but the opposing counsel knew and she did not, and so none of my documents were accepted that I had spent a lot of money on notarizing by lawyers in my country. She dropped the ball on the very basics and it made all the difference in my case. And when it was apparent that she dropped the ball, she never acknowledged or apologized. She tried blaming things on me. She was also very impatient, curt, rude and several times just demeaning to me when I spoke with her to consult on the best way to move forward. One thing that Sari never ever forgot, was money. Every conversation started and ended with money. She has no mercy when it comes to that. I am writing this review only so that other people in my situation, who are scraping every single penny to pay for very important legal fees, and who are in the middle of high stakes divorce/child support cases, do not get caught in the same situation. Her services were nowhere near worth the money she charged. Though she did show up to court and argued on my behalf, she was so unprepared with my documents that I lost my case. I am happy that she came through for others. I just have no idea why I did not merit the same standard of service.

Sari and her team are amazing! I was so worried because my husband controlled our finances and we have three young children so I was scared I would not have enough to care for myself and our kids. Sari fought hard to not only get us enough support but was diligent in her efforts and time. She also... was very responsive to my calls and emails, even when she was out of the office. Sari, thank you and your office for your sincere efforts and support.

Sari was my third attorney and the first two had left me in a bad situation. Supervised visitation and facing false allegations of child abuse. Add to it the fact that my ex-wife's family was very wealthy, so I was in a bad way. Sari understood that I could only afford a minimal retainer and said she... would work with me as things went forward. Sparing the lengthy details, she got me cleared of the false allegations, awarded joint custody and got the court to make my ex-wife pay a good portion of her fees! Plus, I pay child support (happily) but no maintenance or alimony to my ex. Thank you, Sari, for giving me my life back.