Daniela Labinoti

Daniela Labinoti

It is sad to see this review especially after our phone conversation. I can only imagine it was sent in advance of our conversation and in anger and frustration involving other attorneys and the situation you are in. As explained to you in the phone, I was investigating this matter carefully because you had fired your prior lawyer in middle of litigation. I needed to verify information as to your claims and what had happened to lead to such relationship failure and to such low offers. I requested additional information which you provided few days ago, and I made calls to the opposing counsel, despite having to prepare for trial and other cases, but the defense attorney did not get back to me until this morning. As I advised you, litigation attorneys are in court and many times unable to respond as can't use electronic devices or call while in trial. As soon as I discussed with him the matter in detail, I called you back in less than 10 minutes. We were extremely diligent at investigating your case. In fact, we found that you had filed a complaint against your former lawyer, something you did not share with us. Also, we found out that while you were waiting a response from us, you had contacted another lawyer who was also working on your case and was not aware of our office also investigating your case. It truly confused things as the opposing counsel was getting phone calls from different lawyers involving your case. Despite all of that, I guided you as I understand your frustration not finding a lawyer after firing your prior lawyer. It is sad that the frustration you had towards your former lawyer, it was pointed at us. We tried our best to investigate the case to make sure to help you in a matter of days. I can't control always when opposing counsel would get back to me. If a litigation attorney doesn't answer in 2-3 days or even a week, is not uncommon. Litigation attorney can be in trial, court, depositions, mediation. All of these, I explained to you and you seem to have understood. We are extremely careful in accepting matters where the client has fired prior lawyers as it is not a good situation to be in, accordingly, I needed to verify a lot of things before I made decisions and "a week" is not sufficient as I am waiting on other attorneys to get back to me and provide sensitive information. I understand that sometimes when we are sad, desperate and angry do things and say things that we don’t mean. I know that this has to be the case as I enjoyed talking to you. You are frustrated and worried and I understand. I hope you will be able to find an attorney that can help you in this process and I am sorry that the other lawyers failed you, but those lawyers were not my office. I wanted to reject the case after reviewing the documents, but I asked for more information, called the opposing counsel, because I wanted to be 100% sure before I gave a final answer and that extra step took "a week". Anyway, I hope all goes well and, in the future, if we can help you, let us know in advance. You also have my cell phone number. I truly wish you the best.