Sari Martin Friedman

Remarkable service and professionalism with a personal and caring attorney. Sari helped me years ago, with the parental alienation and Father’s Rights meetings. In addition after 5 years in court with another attorney, on the first court date, in the hallway Attorney Friedman sat and quietly listened... to my children’s mother and advised her gently of best course, and we parted courts forever after that. Although the parental alienation is still a chronic challenge my experience with Attorney Friedman was transformative, especially when women generally have prejudged men in matrimonial matters, as well as the judges. Attorney Friedman stands alone with her staff as the best I know on Long Island. Compassionate and affordable.

There is so much to say about Sari. I have very tough circumstances that I was dealing with and Sari was the third lawyer I retained. The first thing that Sari did that no other lawyer did was request a zoom meeting to determine whether my case was one she was willing to represent. That said a tremen...dous amount to be about her character and that she wasn't willing to just take any case just to take it. Sari was and has been there to answer any email or phone call without hesitation and does so in a timeframe that fae exceeds anything I have ever experienced from a lawyer. She truly cared about me and my case and my fight for my daughter and she succeeded for me In ways no one else had. I wish I had done Sari sooner and not wasted so much time and money elsewhere. As a father, I cannot recommend or praise Sari and Crystal enough for how much they have done for me and still do for me. There truly is no one better out there and no one you should have on your side other than her. I will never forget her words to me outside the courthouse after my custody agreement was signed and how much she believed in me as a father. When you retain Sari you retain more than just a lawyer. You are retaining integrity and character and I cannot stress enough how hard and successful she was in fighting for me. This firm is an absolute must and I am so grateful and thankful for her.

I hired Sari because she is supposedly the top Father's Rights attorney around. She had her associate, Laraib, handle my case to save me on costs. The idea was that Sari would oversee everything. My divorce & custody case took place during COVID so that delayed in-person court proceedings. I am ...dealing with a high-conflict, narcissistic ex-wife who has been poisoning my three children against me. When we finally got to court, my attorney talked me into settling and signing a terrible agreement instead of going to trial. This gave me no power to stop my ex from brainwashing my children into hating me and stopping me from raising them. Now, nearly 3 years later, they are all in therapy with anxiety and depression and they haven't visited with me in over a year. It seems to me that my attorney took my money and had no interest in doing what was best from the children.

Going through divorce is always difficult especially when it involves dealing with the ACS. Friedman and Friedman, Attorneys at Law, specifically Sari Friedman and team showed compassion, professionalism, and excellent legal skills in every step during my divorce and legal battle with ACS. Sari tri...es to defray as many tensions as possible in mediations as the marriage concluded. Once the divorce was finalized, I did not feel battered, I felt renewed. Sari and team helped me win my ACS case which is practically impossible to do and is rarely done. Hopefully, they can use my case as a reference in future to help someone else. Thank you, Friedman and 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!!!!