Samuel Joshua Briskman

I met with this attorney on November 3, 2023, two days after a workplace injury, regarding a retaliatory discharge and sex discrimination matter. He tentatively agreed to take my case at that meeting, though representation was not yet officially confirmed. Before I left, he instructed me to go direct...ly to the EEOC and obtain an Inquiry Number, which I did that same afternoon. This was my first EEOC contact on this matter, made at his direction. On December 7, 2023, on a phone call that my husband witnessed, he told me I had done everything needed on my end with the EEOC, that he had things handled from there, and instructed me to notify him the moment I received a Right-to-Sue Notice. By March 2024, the EEOC had already prepared and authorized a Right-to-Sue Notice based on the evidence I had submitted. An EEOC representative called to walk me through their online portal so I could log in and sign it. While helping me log in, the representative discovered that my original charge, which I had filed in person, had inadvertently named the wrong Respondent. This rescinded the Right-to-Sue Notice on an administrative technicality and required a corrected charge before it could be reissued; the underlying merits were never in question. I notified his office the same day, and again by phone shortly after, that the Respondent needed to be corrected and that a corrected charge would be filed. Between April 5 and April 19, 2024, I exchanged multiple emails with his assistant, sending draft corrected charge documents and asking for guidance due to ongoing EEOC portal difficulties. On April 19, five days before he withdrew, his assistant wrote that once she received a certain document, "we should be able to handle it from here." Nothing indicated representation had ended. On April 24, 2024, he called and withdrew from representing me entirely, on the spot, citing time pressure with only ninety days to prepare. My adult son witnessed this call. It contradicted both the December call my husband witnessed and his office's own emails from five days earlier. I wrote a detailed letter the next day asking him to reconsider. His assistant responded warmly, saying they would call me back. No further word ever came, and the withdrawal was never rescinded. At the time of this withdrawal, I was still recovering from the workplace injuries underlying my case: a single, forceful, twisting motion during the assault that tore both rotator cuffs and both biceps badly enough to require surgical reattachment at new points on the bone, along with a rare abdominal nerve condition (A.C.N.E.S.) requiring a bilateral T9 neurectomy, totaling four surgeries. I had near total inability to move without assistance, was in significant pain, and depended on my husband for basic daily tasks. This left me with a severely compressed window to locate new counsel before the approaching filing deadlines, made harder still by living several states away from Alabama. Having improved since my bilateral T9 neurectomy, I was finally able to begin investigating where my case stood. On July 29, 2026, I contacted the EEOC directly, and staff confirmed that no attorney had ever filed anything on my behalf, at any point, and that a formal Request for a Letter of Representation would exist if any attorney had. As a direct result, the 90-day federal Title VII deadline (from the mailed Right-to-Sue Notice) lapsed in September 2024, and Alabama's 2-year state-law retaliatory discharge limitations period lapsed in November 2025. Both passed while I had no attorney of record and no notice my case had not been filed. I have since filed a formal complaint with the Alabama State Bar documenting these events. If you are considering this attorney for any time-sensitive matter, do not rely on verbal assurances alone. Ask directly, in writing, for confirmation of every filing made, and independently verify with the relevant agency yourself. Or, just miss him.