David S Posner

I called about rent owed after evicting a renter. A significant sum, the cost of the repairs, and deep cleaning needed. He said there was no way to recover the funds owed to me through legal actions. Not even if I put a lien on the home the renter had purchased. He said he'd look into the renter and ...the renter's father who had guaranteed his son would be a decent renter. The father owes a local business. When I mentioned the cost of the repairs and cleaning, I asked if I could have a family member do the required work. He then added another insult by stating said family members must be paid. I hadn't said I wasn't paying for the work. I was concerned about the legal aspect of hiring a family member out of work at the current rate of that work, plus supplies. I gave him my name and information, my family member's name, the renter's name, and the renter's father's name. The house address, the address of the home the renter now owns, and the father's information. I received an email with only the confidential information that if the wrong person received it to please delete it. I replied to confirm my email address. I live in a different state for work now. I was supposed to receive information about his fees and what to expect. Instead, in the second email, I was informed, quite bluntly, I could not afford his fees without being told the fee amount. Secondly, the renter wasn't worth the effort because he'd never pay me, even with a lien on his credit report, that he would damage his new rental (he is an owner now) and that should be sufficient for me. Between the past due rent, repairs, and cleaning I have to pay to have done. The renter now owes $10K+. I don't consider that an insignificant amount. If you want an arrogant attorney who has no respect for a potential client while insulting said client then he's the attorney you're seeking. Good luck in your attorney search.

I suppose Mr. Posner could be called old-fashioned, in that he prefers that the client should go away while he makes all the decisions. Or at least if she is female; he seems to want to believe that a female with a legal problem is merely emotional and irrational. He represented me as a beneficiary... in a probate case, after snatching the job away from a junior partner immediately after I hired said partner. Mr. Posner said the partner would continue to work on my case under his supervision, but all that happened is that I was billed monthly for the partner's walking across the street once a month to the courthouse "to see if any new documents were on file," a job that could have been handled by a phone call from a secretary. Mr. Posner tried hard to convince me of the worthlessness of all the estate assets so I would not try too hard to pursue them (under the decedent's will I had inherited approximately $1 million). He also billed me for useless tasks such as his office making sure the title to the real estate I had inherited was clear, which (a) is the executor's job and (b) I already knew the title was clear, so had not asked Posner to look into it. He was willing to negotiate distribution of assets from the executor without my seeing any formal accounting or indeed any credible informal accounting of estate income and expenses. He allowed himself to be run around a great deal by the executor's attorney, for months, and paid little attention to anything that was going on. Then when a faulty accounting was finally filed, which accounting I had long pressured Mr. Posner to formally ask for, revealing that the executor had spent staggering sums of money on simple tasks and that there was significant missing income, Mr. Posner refused to let me have any input into the objections filed or even to see them. I fired him and hired a lawyer who got me much better accountings and substantial restitution from the Court. But I had completely wasted considerable time and money on Mr. Posner.