David S Posner

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.