Swati Sumit Desai

If you do decide to use Desai Family Law as your counsel, do NOT have Malori handle any of your documents or case. She is careless with her work and not detailed oriented. I should have known this in the beginning, when she had emailed me requesting my signed retainer agreement. I notified her tha...t the signed agreement was faxed couple days prior, then receive an email stating she had found my signed retainer agreement. This is not a big issue and a simple mistake that is understandable. However, during the negotiations of my case, I had instructed Malori to change my custody schedule to the Settlement Proposal Letter. I, of course, wanted more time with my child and attached a picture of the changes I was requesting. I even told Malori to see the attached picture. Apparently, Malori did not see the attached picture and emailed me the Proposal several times without the changes I requested. I was also billed for the wasted time and work spent because of Malori's negligence. I eventually had to call Malori and tell her which email to open and what needed to be done. If you decide to use Desai Family Law Group, I would NOT recommend using Swati Desai. Any parent going through a custody case, goes through a lot of stress and needs an attorney to help them feel confident. I can honestly say, I did not feel confident having Swati represent me as my counsel, and I had to fire her 1 week prior to my court date. Several months prior to my court date during a phone call, Swati was aggressive with me on the phone and telling me my court date is coming up. I had to remind her that my court date was postponed and rescheduled to a later date by the courts. Her reply, "Hold on. Oh yeah, you're right". Also, during this conversation, Swati had given me incorrect legal advise. I questioned Swati's legal advice, so I emailed Malori if what Swati had said was correct. Malori's email contradicted Swati's legal advise; and in fact, Swati's legal advise was incorrect. During another important phone call, Swati proceeded to put me on hold twice. I was billed for the entire length of the phone call and her pricing is not cheap! One week prior to my court date during a phone call, Swati asked me "wait, when is your court date again"? Also during this phone call, I had asked Swati if she saw my important email from 2 days before. Her response, "What email? Oh yeah, that email. What was that email regarding again"? It was after this phone call, I decided to seek new counsel and fire Swati as my attorney. I understand that most attorneys do not memorize all their clients' court dates, but at least wait until the phone call is over and check your schedule for the court date. Do not ask your client, "wait, when is your court date again". (Take this as constructive criticism). The amount of stress and paranoia I endured having to fire Swati one week prior to my court date, I do not wish upon any parent. Shortly after replacing Swati, I was emailed a ridiculous bill. I tried to call Swati from my work phone to discuss the charges, only to realize that she had blocked that number. If Swati was familiar with my case/file she would have blocked the only number I had put on my contact information (which was my personal phone number). I called her from my personal number and she refused to discuss the charges. For the price they charge, I expected a certain level of professionalism and experience, which was not met. I would not recommend this firm and would suggest looking elsewhere.

Swati charged me SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS to read my emails and print/file the attachments even AFTER I FIRED HER. And worse, she never gave any indication that she had absolutely no intention of using the extensive documentation I've accumulated about my ex-wife's undisclosed assets and income. In...stead, Swati effectively colluded with my ex by bullying me into a stipulated "settlement agreement" with an unwarranted "equalization payment" from debt-ridden me (I just want an equal share of my son's life) to my allegedly "poor" ex-wife (whose corporations hide her profitable real estate empire).