Adam Turner Kronfeld

I hired Mr. Kronfeld after meeting him at a Divorce workshop. This was my first time going through this process and having no idea how to choose an attorney, I decided to work with him. Right when we started I asked if he had ever worked with abusive spouses and how to defend his clients against mali...gning, lying and slander. He assured me he had. Clearly he had not. I would receive bills for emails that he had written on my behalf, emails I'm quite sure he simply copied and pasted from other clients (they were generic), yet would charge me 45 minutes for a small email. (Even if he had written it as an original, 45 minutes was extremely excessive!) The first court hearing was one for custody. He had asked for multiple photographs, documents, and data to which I sent him (and was charged for his going through them.) Our meeting before court he was not prepared at all. I was immediately horrified. He couldn't find the email I sent him with all the points spelled out for the next day's court, so at that meeting, I had to send it to him once again. This was about CUSTODY. He was not prepared at all. We went to court and he brought not one shred of the mounds of material and documents I sent him weeks and months before. NOT ONE PIECE. I was mortified. I went first and he was very sloppy. My ex-spouse went second. And as I predicted, he maligned me and made up lie after lie. What was most shocking was that when Mr. Kronfeld cross examined him, he did not try to defend me in any way. My ex-spouse's attorney had multiple pictures and documents (just as I had sent Mr. Kronfeld months previously, but he didn't bother to bring to court on my behalf.) I lost custody that day based on a number of lies by my ex-spouse, Mr. Kronfeld's sloppiness in his lack of defending me, and his general obliviousness to what was really happening to me and my future. And I had already paid him approximately 5 figures by this point. I fired him the next day in writing. My second attorney told me right off the bat that we now had a horribly hard hill to climb. Not only was I now in the negative with regard to custody, I was also in a deficit with my credibility because I was not adequately defended on the stand. With my second attorney we had a big victory in the second hearing, but ultimately it was not enough. Now that it is all said and done, I lost big. Starting with the huge deficit Mr. Kronfeld created for me, I then managed to re-gain custody from an abusive spouse only at 50%. But that was on the condition I would give up majorly financially. I have to rebuild my life with my girls, continue to pay my new attorney to fight for me (as I know my ex-spouse will continue to be abusive and I will have to prove it again in court), and completely start over financially. I write this review not because I want to "get" Mr. Kronfeld although I am extremely angry. I write to beg people to please not use him, please do not let this happen to you. He did not work to adequately defend me or for that matter, my children. Learn from my grief of having missed an entire year with my children as I worried about them day and night - a year I will never, ever get back.