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.

Mr. Lescht was incompetent and apathetic to concerns of his client, offering milk toast response to reprisal only after being prompted to act. He was far from a zealous advocate in my matters. his comments also reflected his sympathy to those doing the discrimination and reprisal. I fired him and his... firm for cause. Judge Blackburne-Rigby and her special counsel David Guo were advised regarding the substandard work of Mr. Lescht and his firm, Alan Lescht and Associates. He and his firm only offered excuses for their substandard work. I requested my item so I could move on. They continue to delay

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.