Albert Khafif

This lawyer wasn't in our favor. My mom had an accident couple years ago. ( March 18, 2005) she was hit by an MTA bus driver in jamaica on Archer Ave. She was heading to work so she could put food on the table. This almost cost her life and left her with her lefted hand badly injured and since then s...he wasn't able to work. We took this lawyer in our case since we didn't know anything about law. First he failed to give my mom all her loss rages money( he gave her half of the money);because the money went to his name. Second we had to keep calling him and find out what happened with the case, he never gave any updates. The first time my mom went to court( in 2007), he sent somebody else( another lawyer) instead. The lawyer came over my mom and screamed at her ( You lost, you don't get anything). When we spoke to Kaffif about that, he request another appeal. That same day he didn't show any concern about my mom. As we were waiting for the judge to say his finals decisions, the lawyer came over 5 minutes before and said that he just spoke to the MTA bus lawyer and said that they will us 500,000 dollars instead. We didn't have time to say anything. When we got back to the court room. The judge said that we lost the case and therefore we won't get anything. when went to his office couple weeks after, he said that if we are not happy , social services is here for that, we can go and ask for help over there. He said that we have to give him 3,500 dollars to go to another appeal,which we did but we never heard anything from him since then. He said that he didn't get pay because we lost , so din'nt the doctors and therapists. The therapists used to call us because they didn't heard anything from the lawyer, but they stopped calling because they got paid. Which means he got the money from the case, but kept it to himself.We did call him, but didn't want to pick up the phone. Not only we didn;t get any money because an MTA bus driver hit my mom but he left her with thousand of hospitals bills. We never got a chance to see the bus driver. I know it is untrue not to be able to retrieve the driver when there is a specific time, location and date he works. when you know the bus number, When my mom had so many witnesses and one of them did call 911that day. They had everything on tape. Because of everthing that happened my mom suffers from depression and we are not struggling to pay our rent. This lawyer is heartless and doesn't care about how you will live tomorrow. He doesn't work head to head with his client. We have tried to contact other lawyers after but they didn't want to take the case because it's been so long. We are living one day at the time and never got our justice. ( [email protected])