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.

After shopping around the DC area for an attorney to discuss a potential claim, I originally chose my consult to be with Mr. Lescht as he was the quickest attorney to get back to me. Per his very specific question in response to my draft statement in addition to prodding from his assistant, Joyce, r...elated to how I had documented my situation and prompted thinking about what I would want once this was brought to court, I was hopeful that I would potentially have a case. Therefore, I decided to pay the rather hefty consult fee. However, within five minutes of the "consult," Mr. Lescht indicated that I definitely did not have a case and proceeded to just informally chat with me. I kept trying to prod him back to the subject of the potential case, yet, it was clear that he did not think I had a case and just tried to get me to leave his office as quickly as possible. An easy $300 for 30 min of chit chat. I didn't even get the full hour. After this exposure in addition to the other law firms that I had contacted, I wish that I had just paid the $195 for phone consult with another law firm or wish that the law firms wouldn't lead me into thinking that I actually had a case. Overall, really unfortunate that I am already extremely frustrated and this exposure to DC attorneys did not appease these emotions.

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.