Joseph Lambert Pittera

Mr. Pittera represented my parents in a Bankruptcy, in 1998. After working hard all of their lives, they were on the brink of losing their home and the 130k equity they had in it. Mr. Pittera represented them in a Bankruptcy filing. Nonetheless, they were left with no choice but to sell their home......at least they had the equity to try and move on. Instead os moving my parents into a different type of BK, which would allo them to sell the house, he lifted the stay (court protection) on the house. The bank moved in and sold it. My parents lost everything includiung their equity. Mr. Pittera immediately filed for BK, which made it impossiblefor my parenst to have any form of financial recourse against him. What was worse...we later found out his license had been suspended during the time he was representing my parents, which he never disclosed. According to the state bar, it was for making terrorist threats against his wife. I, myself, am now an attorney and know how egregious his actions were, as a member of the bar...in addition to how devastating they were to my family. I can not believe he is still allowed to practice.

My house was going to be up for sale on the courthouse steps in 30 days and thank goodnes Mr pittera was referred to me as a good BK Attorney. I contacted him and made an appointment. He directed me to a nonprofit financial counseling service and from there I saw him and he did an evaluation of my ci...rcumstances. Joe gave me the opportunity to think through the consequences of a BK and after much deliberation, I called him back and we proceeded with the BK. Joe was thorough and professinally compassionate. He and his para-legal held my hand the whole way through the process. I am so grateful for the work he did and for the way he helped me get through the emotional trauma of feeling like such a failure. He has stayed in contact and has worked with me on any questions I have regarding the collaterial effects of the BK. He saved my house from the foreclosure sale, allowing me to sell it as a short sale