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Posted by Amy | August 24, 2015 | Hired Attorney

Marc John Randazza is a fierce and brilliant defender - highly recommended - saved my financial life

Marc Randazza saved my financial life with his defense of me. I highly, highly recommend him. In short, he is an attack dog but never loses sight of what is the wise and prudent thing to do. He compiled an attack that, on multiple fronts, decimated every argument of the lawyer and client coming af...ter me. My experience of him is that he is passionately committed to fairness and doing what’s right, and as I saw it, does not see losing a case as an option for himself. I know he must occasionally lose a case (because this can’t always be in control of the lawyer due to the client’s situation and the law), but the way he approaches them -- with this fierceness that losing is not an option -- made me feel secure from the start that I didn’t have to worry at all; I just needed to wait for him to finish what he needed to do. I feel confident in saying that whatever the best possible outcome is, Randazza will get it for a client. I also want to explain that while he is fierce, he is not just fierce. He is also methodical, meticulous, and highly incisive. In his defense of my case -- which he made go away rather than going to trial (phew!), I found him to be a brilliant writer (of the brief) and a leave-no-stones-unturned thinker and arguer. While I’m extremely grateful to him for all he did to defend me, I’m also extremely grateful I wasn’t the client on the other side of him. He, plain and simple, wiped the floor with every argument the other side’s lawyer made. And that’s no exaggeration. He brilliantly, brilliantly answered every argument the other lawyer made with a legally-supported argument (based in prior cases, state law, and constitutional law) that just made every argument the other side had just shrivel up -- to the point where the other side probably understood that they were lucky to just walk away and not walk away with a countersuit. (I did not want a countersuit; I just wanted the other side to go away; so I was very, very happy with this outcome.) I also want to say that though Randazza is a fierce and committed defender of free speech -- mine and all of ours -- he never lost sight of my best interests. He was careful in informing me of all my alternatives, including the possible benefits of settling, and emphasized that this was an option for me, and explained all the reasons that this approach might have merits for me. Another very important way that Randazza is fierce is that he’s fiercely ethical. It’s important to me to have a lawyer who, while exploiting every angle, never stops coming from moral high ground. I don’t really understand people who sneer at their lawyers for being sleazy. It’s up to a client to choose a lawyer who, in their initial conversations, reflects that they are both extremely intelligent/clever (and will figure out the puzzle of how to get you out of trouble) and comes from moral high ground. This matters to judges and it matters in terms of public opinion, if there is any public reflection on your case, which their was on mine. I found, at every turn, that Randazza drew on his mind and case law rather than ever doing anything underhanded. And finally, I think you can understand a lot about a lawyer through his associates. The people who work for Marc Randazza are like mini-Randazzas in many ways, but the important part to me was that they seem to truly love and respect the guy. Love and respect. They love him because he’s decent to the core -- a man of principle -- and they respect him because of all I wrote above. I highly, highly recommend Marc Randazza as a lawyer and a human being -- although I strongly suggest that you avoid being on the other side of him, because he’ll eat you and your lawyer for breakfast and eat whatever’s left for a mid-day snack. Great man, great lawyer; I was extremely lucky and will forever be grateful to him for his defense of me.

Posted by anonymous | October 02, 2009

Review of Attorney Marc Randazza

I have worked with Marc on dozens of legal matters related to my business since Spring of '04 and have had nothing but great experiences. He's adaptable to his clients' personal style and risk tolerance levels, and gives his full time and attention to every client concern. Furthermore, his desire... to protect clients from pursing matters that are probably not worth pursuing is commendable, whereas other, less ethical legal professionals may have the tendency to encourage clients to pursue legal action to increase their own earnings. I have never once sensed that tendency in Mr Randazza. He has talked me out of admittedly ego-driven legal pursuits quite a few times, when he has assessed that such pursuits would be unlikely to conclude in my favor (i.e., would be a waste of my money even though that money would be going directly to him). That's class. His objectivity and selflessness in his legal practice, and his heartfelt dedication to defend the liberties and Constitutional rights of his clients and all citizens of this country (even the "asshats"!), shines through in all he does.

Posted by Charles | October 01, 2009

Your best choice for hardcore 1st Amendment attorney.

Delighted by my dealings with Mr. Randazza. I had one of those cases which is small potatoes to the attorney but a big deal to the client. The billing was very fair, I received timely attention, and the matter was resolved as I had hoped. Also I was pleased to find an attorney who is genuinely net-sa...vvy, both in background knowledge and everyday habits. If my freedom of speech ever requires defense in the future, I know the man to call.

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