He did represent me and take the case on contigency he had a good case but put no energy into it. At the depositon hearing he did not instruct me on how to anwer or not answer the defendants questioning or what to expect in that type of hearing. sloppy work with a good case. I ended up going getting ...hired back at the company but had lost all my tenure and any back pay but he made sure he got paid. he got paid 500 bucks and the cause was worth more than that.

Upon meeting Alan Lescht I was in less than a good mood. I advised him that I wanted a straight forward attorney; no bull. He concurred. Not long after signing on for his representation I was placed with his associate. I did not pay $250.00/hour to be assigned to his associate. She was nice but........at any rate, I found that I needed a pit bull of an attorney and yet got far less. I was suing a very unethical bunch of scum lords and they required a strong, determined, take no prisoner type of adversary. Alan Lescht failed to; chose not to tell me that I could file an appeal to the judges ruling. If he is so professional why didn't he have this conversation with me. When I contacted him to ask how I lost the case (I want to know this), he ignored my request. I have little respect for attorney's and dealing with too many simply brought about this disdain.

I sought info on obtaining representation on an EEO case from Mr. Lescht. I first contacted them and recieved guidance from the secretary (who I agree was very nice) to send in my EEO summary. I did and heard nothing back for a month. I called in again asking and was told they would find my paper...work and get back to me that day. They did not, so I called again the next day. At this point they say yes we can help you, tell me about retainer fee and consult price. I say ok lets do a consult. We schedule a phone appt.and after an hour past appt. time I call them. They say we tried to call and we find they had my number wrong (it was clearly written with my eeo summary info). So I get patched through to the actual lawyer and he is just like "What questions do you have for me?" So I do my best to just basically get to the point of "Do I have a case?" I got some this is good, this will hurt you- but I don't feel like I really got a straight answer. So then basically it came to "Well all you sent me was your EEO summary." Which I understand there is a lot more info than that to the case, BUT... that's all they told me to send! So then he tells me about fees for retaining plus hourly fees (which the lady before didnt mention) and says he'll send an email. I get the email and then it's retainer fees, hourly fees + a percentage of the settlement- which by the point that is all taken I feel like there wouldn't be much left in it for me! So... I feel like the 13 minute phone consult for $300 was just slightly higher than worthless for the money. I wish I would have gone to someone in person and been able to sit down with the paperwork with them- then maybe I would have gotten some guidance on my case.

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.