Leon Stewart Rothstein

Hired this attorney with hesitation but he promised he could save the world! I bought into his high pressures pitch noting I didn’t have $15,000 to litigate so my goal was to settle out of court. Throughout I kept asking for feedback on the process having never received any cc on emails to the opposi...ng attorney which I’m used to getting. Leon would say, ‘oh I bumped into opposing attorney at court today...and they don’t want to settle.’ I’d ask about the fact we hadn’t even drafted any terms for settling so wouldn’t that be prudent to do? He acted like it was my fault I hadnt done that yet! Unreal. So we did this and I waited and waited and my ever received a letter to approve. He only said once again they won’t settle. Odd. No attorney letters again. Next thing I know he filed litigation and sent me a long list of discovery from opposing attorney on me but we are the ones suing them. I asked where’s the discovery for them. He showed me five questions! I had 5 pages!! I reiterated I did not want to litigate nor gob to court so he needed to settle. I refused to do discovery. He did nothing. A day before everything was due he contacted me telling me I was going to be in default if I didn’t turn in the papers. I was shocked that he had drug me into a litigation without my permission and with explicit direction to only work on a settlement so I fired him. A few weeks later I received a copy of a court hearing paper that he appeared before a judge recusing himself from my case because I would not follow his advice! In it he lied and said I had been notified of said hearing but I hadn’t. I would have crawled crippled to be there. I requested several times to get copies of all my paperwork and he hadn’t be worked my case at all. I contacted opposing attorney and settled it in one week. I wish I knew how to disbar this attorney for being so untruthful.

A very irresponsible lawyer, I would not recommend Leon at all. I had to correct him everytime with mistakes he made because he either did the opposite thing I told him or did it completely wrong, especially when he was filing for full custody for me and he made at least 9 mistakes. He obviously didn...'t listen and took notes. I shouldn't be correcting a lawyer when I didn't even go to school to be one I also shouldn't be correcting his grammar either. Also he said he would do something but he never did it at all. Especially when I was trying to get temporary custody and for 2 days straight he told me he would file but he never did at all. Leon is very untrustworthy and irresponsible and he is definitely not a lawyer to hire.