Daniel Aaron Seigel

My initial complaint drafted by Dan Seigel was dismissed by the Judge because it did not have the necessary facts included. Dan’s response to the Court? “But this is the same complaint I always file.” That is him in a nutshell. Charging far too much for boilerplate pleadings. I provided all of t...he facts necessary to write a detailed complaint – he included virtually none of them. And when I asked why, he told me, “I do this all the time,” and shut me down. I spent thousands of dollars only to have my complaint dismissed and then I had to start all over again – and pay him for it all over again. No apology, no discount for the amended filing, nothing. In Court he was easily rattled and made poor arguments; in one hearing he actually argued the Judge out of ruling on our behalf. On two of his five invoices he billed me at the wrong rate (higher than agreed upon, of course). When I pointed this out to him, he was curt and defensive with me. And when I fired him and found a new attorney, Dan contacted that new attorney five days after sending his final invoice to ask if he was going to get paid. His rate was 50% more than every other attorney I contacted, and while he advertises “concierge service,” the only thing concierge about his service was his price.

This attorney charged us $475 an hour which is more than other top attorneys in the area who have 20+years of experience. We had to send documents numerous times and he failed to contact individuals involved in my father's estate planning until we were at mediation. One person he did call refused to ...cooperate with our situation because he said the Mr Seigel was extremely rude to him during the initial phone call. Just getting through mediation cost us almost three times more than any other attorney had estimated it to cost and we had to pay for his "mentor" to review documents (and the time that was taken to call his mentor during mediation). It was an horrible experience with an horrible outcome.

Dan Seigal should be your last choice of attorney. I suffer the consequences of his ineptitude or possible collusion with opposing counsel to this day. It has severely impacted my health, not to mention and left me with no insurance when my house sustained severe damage in Irma. I should have been... more alert upon our initial meeting when he didn't believe Florida Statute 736.0606 existed. I had to pull out my phone to show him. He showed no interest in the subject matter of the case and ignorantly stated at one point "I'm a Trust Guy, not a Tax Guy," and I said if you don't understand how ridiculous that makes you sound - you need your head examined. Long story short -- He knew my bare minimum to settle -- never brought it up with opposing counsel, and $15,000 in bills later -- including a $900 lunch with opposing counsel, came to me with an offer far worse than the one I rejected a year earlier -- without a lawyer. He told me if I didn’t accept the crap deal he could not represent me. Mind you at a bare minimum he knew I was owed an additional $90,000.00 -- and this was according to his accountant -- and Dan had the gall to tell me that was not "really anything" worth litigating and accept the crap deal or he wouldn’t represent me. The deal was so far short of every conversation I had with him, to be downright offensive to me to mention. Later when I called another attorney -- she called him, and he broke my confidence and privilege without consulting me or getting an okay to speak with her. Run, do not walk from this trainwreck.