I hired the firm to represent me in an EEO case after the consultation. The consultation went great with Mr. Lescht making all sorts of glowing claims such as early retirement and settlements. That's where it ended. After that every correspondence was initiated by me. No effort whatsoever was put int...o my case. When I continually asked the question of what was being done I was told nothing could be done until the EEO hearing. There was no leverage. Well, what happened to the early retirement and settlements? In 6 months not one thing was ever done on my case nor was I contacted unless I reached out first. Questions were answered with responses that made it clear my case had never been reviewed such as when asked if some effort could be made for settlement prior to the hearing I was told the reason nothing had been done was they didn't know who to contact. I was floored. The attorney's name was in the ROI. Then I was told they were sure my agency would not offer a monetary award but might support a disability claim. YOU DON'T NEED AGENCY SUPPORT to file a disability claim. The whole experience was a waste of time money. I terminated representation as there was no representation.

If there were negative stars, I'd give them. Alan charges $300 for a "consult," which is him basically just telling clients to get to the point when they're presenting their case to him. I was having financial hardships stemming from what should've been an open-and-shut case related to a wrongful sus...pension, and $1500 later, Alan sent me an email saying there is nothing more that could be done. He gave no indication he's even explored other options after we presented facts proving my agency's misconduct. When I asked him to appeal to OPM or any third party outside of the agency, which breached my rights from the very beginning of the process, he said he'd need more money to work on my case. He had a junior level attorney write an 8-page grievance and spent less than a week working on this, sent me no itemization of the time spent, and now I'm told I owe him nearly $4000 more dollars! Unbelievable, and this sort of action (or should I say inaction) completely perpetuates the stigma about lawyers.

Mr. Alan Lescht took my case knowing that he was very good friends with opposing counsel and he did not tell me this at the start of our relationship in April 2012. From the outset he did everything to persuade me to take my case which was an excellent discrimination/retaliation case against a large ...government contractor. At the time I hired him, Mr. Lescht he did not tell me that he and the company's in house counsel lived in the same development and were very close friends to the point where Mr. Lescht had given his daughter's baby carriage to opposing counsel. I would not have retained Mr. Lescht had I had this information because I believe it would be a conflict of interest for him. I know that this relationship existed because at my deposition the opposing counsel told, Susan Kruger, who worked for Mr. Lescht these details in my presence. Also, when Mr. Lescht began to threaten to drop me if I did not settle for basically nothing, he himself told me that he was very good friends with opposing counsel and that they lived in the same development and he give his baby carriage to opposing counsel. I was shocked because when I had heard this at my deposition and had questioned Ms. Kruger, Mr. Lescht's attorney working on my case, she had said that she had asked Mr. Lescht about what opposing counsel had said and that Mr. Lescht had denied knowing opposing counsel. This conflict of interest caused Mr. Lescht to drop very strong claims from my case without my knowledge and approval. I have documents prior to the claims being dropped proving that I did not wish these claims dropped. To show how strong my case was, even with those claims dropped, I still survived summary judgement and the case proceeded to court. However, Mr. Lescht then began to threaten to drop me if I did not settle for what he recommended. He told me that at the summary judgment hearing the judge said that my case was weak and that the judge would not be favorable towards me in court if I did not settle for what he (Mr. Lescht) recommended. When I requested the transcript from summary judgment hearing I realized that Mr. Lescht lied about what the judge had said. In addition to threatening to drop me, berate me and accuse me of being greedy, Mr. Lescht tried to get me to mediate in front of a judge who was not assigned to my case. I learned this when I contacted the court and was told that that was not the wrong judge and they made the change to the correct judge. I know Mr. Lescht did this deliberately because he had mentioned the name of the wrong judge numerous times when trying to convince me to mediate and Mr. Lescht's office had communicated with the correct judge numerous times over the five months I had been their client. An example of a strong claim dropped by Mr. Lescht was discrimination with my salary. Documents we got during discovery showed that my salary had been decreased by $5,000 without my knowledge when I became a senior accountant. This means that I worked as a senior accountant for four years but was making a staff accountant salary! The company also blacked out information on the email discussing the decrease in my salary. Mr. Lescht also told me, after the fact, that he had rejected a settlement offer from the company. Numerous other problems occurred with Mr. Lescht's representation. When I expressed my concerns, Mr. Lescht double down on his threat to drop me and eventually did drop me just eight weeks before my case was to go to court. I eventually lost my case because of what Mr. Lescht did to my case. He weakened it by removing its strengths, and when he dropped me I was forced to find another lawyer who could not represent me well due to time constraints.