Peter Timothy Pittullo

With all the hype and the dog and pony show he gave me to get me to hire him, I realize now it was smoke and mirrors. His billing was excessive and he burned through hours. It is all about the money for the guy and he called me the wrong name a couple times. He is was not flexible to my work schedule... and could only call me on certain days that he schedules calls. It is all about him. Twice late for court and one time forgot to come all together. Rude staff that scrambled to make excuses for the lack of timeliness. I did not find him to be aggressive, I did find him to be full of himself and out of touch with opposing council. He promoted expensive litigation and would not speak in a reasonable way with my spouses attorney and they hated him. When I was at court with him, he was walking through the court house and after he passed the bailiffs were laughing about him and his clothing. There was a gal in the fee area that told me pretty much everyone hates him and he has a really bad reputation about things. Lots of negative stories. I guess he used to be good but he is in decline and has financial troubles. When I changed attorney's my new gal told me a story about how he pushed a female attorney in public, that he is aggressive and had a fist-fight with another attorney and also that he was arrested at a local eatery. I also was told about some very disturbing things that made my skin crawl. I was thankful to follow my intuition and change attorney's. It took just 3 months with my new attorney and everything got resolved. I actually ended up having a better divorce and relationship with my ex. Things were really getting aggressive and ugly when Tim Pittullo was handing things as he was combative and really dismissive to the other attorney and my spouse. As we have children and I am a good-hearted person, I could not allow an attorney to cause emotional harm and psychological harm and distress with my former spouse. I don't like that game and as a christian I found his approach to be very troubling morally. Money is the root of all evil and I heard someone on his staff talking about a foreclosure when I was waiting for my appointment. I think he has serious ethical challenges and I do not understand how this behavior is not investigated by the Bar Association. He has people on edge and I was getting tense and stressed during my retained time with him. I cant change the fact I made a bad decision and I debated as to if I should post something but my heart could not rest at night if I didn't tell other people to be careful. I have asked my prayer group to pray for this man's soul as it is soiled and dark. May God have mercy on his soul. There is always time to repent. I am troubled as to why someone chooses not to be good to people and why he lacks the skills to come to settlement in productive ways that do not seek to destroy people. He lacks emotional intelligence and self-awareness. He could use his skills for good and still get paid well. It was my sense has a lot of fear that that the fraternity in him has lost sight of what good feels and looks like. Troubled soul of a person. Again, I will pray for him.

Mr. Pittullo represented my wife and I through an over litigated and very nasty legal battle. Throughout the process Mr. Pittullo and his team had our full confidence and respect. Never once did we question the integrity of anyone in his law firm. We were always charged fairly, always received timely... responses, always treated with respect, and always felt like we had the very best legal representation. Additionally, I had opportunities to overhear other attorneys' hallway conversations about Mr. Pittullo, and it is clear that he is highly regarded among his peers. He is a formidable yet ethical attorney and I believe that he and his law firm provide the very best legal representation possible.

For the past 10 years, Mr. Pittullo has rendered me with an attorney-client relationship unparalleled in its broad scope and power. Due to the litigious nature of my ex-spouse, my divorce and associated legal proceedings have carried a high caliber of intensity over an extraordinary number of years. ... Difficult decision-making throughout my case with the accompanying stress in my current relationships has been forefront. Having experienced work with two other attorney firms at the beginning of my divorce, I can attest to the superior level of service and effectiveness of Mr. Pittullo’s practice. Mr. Pittullo’s quick intellect and unquestionable knowledge of the law sways even a difficult Judge. Yet, despite his strength in litigation, he is quick to offer advice informed by his vast experience, extending beyond courtroom concerns to anticipate the impact that legal proceedings inevitably have on other facets of my life. Mr. Pittullo readily offers unusual insight into legal situations, considering the client’s best interest at heart: he has counseled me regarding the best legal pathway for my specific financial situation and with regard for the stressful impact any legal proceeding has upon my personal life and relationships. In my experience this is where other attorneys fail to offer a rounded personable opinion, perhaps fearing to venture beyond the letter of the law to see the client’s broader needs. I continue to retain Mr. Pittullo after over a decade of service, having directly experienced the greater costs of retaining a lessor attorney in terms of higher overall costs with less effective service, combined with greater fatigue from less expedient outcomes. I highly encourage consideration of Mr. Pittullo for his abilities to get the job done with cost-effectiveness and stress-reduction in mind for the best of the client.

I believe Mr. Pittullo is the best family law attorney in San Bernardino County. I had two experiences with him. My wife and I had two minor children and divorced. She hired Mr. Pittullo and I had another highly rated attorney. We ultimately settled out of court, but I felt her attorney, Mr. Pittullo..., had a better grip on the case than mine. I was not displeased about the outcome overall, but my ex definitely came out on top. I remarry and 15 years later I am looking for a divorce attorney again. I go to Mr. Pittullo because I was so impressed with his job previously. His ethics were so high that he would not take me on as a client unless he cleared it with my ex. She ok'd it and we moved forward with a very satisfactory outcome. The fees were high, but the results justified them. And his staff worked with me very closely and professionally. He knows the law and shows it in the courtroom and the judges know that he knows the law and respect him for that.

It depends how much money you have and who your spouse has hired. If you want to blow through money and know you are going to trial, hire him. However, watch every single detail and don't let him turn those details over to someone else. You are going to have to stay on top of everything as he doesn't... like the details. The ego might get in the way as well. if your spouse hired a pitbull use Pittullo, his secretary is amazing and is responsive...and you will pay for all of it. He will work to settle but make sure YOU, not him or his team know what you want, the value of itand have all your details in hand as he won't. You might also not know what to ask for and you will need to press him for all those details. So, be careful when you decide on Pittullo, you will have a highly experienced attorney, a pitbull in court, an amazing man that does one hell of a deposition but you will not have a friend or an advocate and if your miney runs low he won't work for you and will not go after attorney fees or temporary attroney fees. Unless you know ahead of time to ask for them. His discovery department isn't that great but they send out the paperwork ratehr quickly. Don't let the junior attonrey handle your case or deal with other advanced attorney's withou pitullo there.