Daniel Ivan Spector

I have worked with many lawyers in my professional work over the years so I have a range of experience from which to evaluate an attorney's performance. We faced a difficult situation with a family trust and put it off for too long anticipating an impossible battle to resolve. When the issues became ...too disruptive to delay any longer, I contacted Dan after he was recommended by our trust's attorney. I have never witnessed such swift, effective, extraordinarily smart navigating of legal challenges and disruptive family member behavior. Dan got up to speed so quickly on a complex situation and never missed a beat, encouraged my activities which he reviewed to make sure I wasn't putting myself in harm's way, and when the anticipated World War III in the family resulted from my initiating action, Dan brought it to a peaceful resolution with remarkable speed and intelligence, without having to take the public route of going to court. I and my family will be forever grateful and recommend him so highly for anyone facing such a difficult situation.

I hired Dan Spector (at his rate of $500/hr) to represent me and my family involving a case of undue influence and elderly abuse. My decision to retain him was based on 2 factors: 1) his Super Lawyer rating and 2) a referral from a professional colleague. I was involved in a big case against a mult...inational company several years ago and retained a Super Lawyer who was terrific and won our case. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Dan. I setup a consultation call with Dan to discuss my case. Prior to the call, I sent him an email with the details. During the consultation call, Dan essentially paraphrased my email back to me. Towards the conclusion of our discussion, he told me we had a strong case and despite wanting to put odds on our chances for success, he guesstimated 70%. He also advised me that he didn't write letters, he litigated. If the opposing party wanted to talk, he would certainly take their call. I was impressed with the attitude as we were going to need an aggressive attorney to successfully pursue our claims. Unfortunately, more than $10,000 later, Dan was unable to accomplish anything. He wrote a letter to the opposing party and had a call with opposing party's attorney resulting in absolutely nothing. In fact, when his office sent me an email summary of the call, for a moment, I thought that he was the opposing party's attorney not mine. Furthermore, I gave him critical talking points for the conversation with opposing attorney. To my shock and disappointment, he chose not to discuss them. I just received my final invoice and file. Not surprisingly, 90% of the file consists of my own notes, observations, work, emails etc.....For an attorney who is supposedly an expert in undue influence and elderly abuse, I was extremely disappointed. Dan did not move the needle at all and was subsequently fired. $10,000 and two months later, nothing accomplished.

Dan became my attorney after a negative experience with a so called expert trust attorney. I found Dan to be a most wise and pro active counselor. He represented my needs professionally and thoroughly, as well as calmly and friendly. I was always impressed with his ability to get to the point and be... conscious of my time and money. I don't think I ever spent more than 30 minutes on the phone with him....Quite different from my previous representation, who wasted hours and $$$$ talking and talking. When I would get stressed Dan was able to calmly talk me through the various scenarios to achieve the outcome I wanted. And bottom line...the settlement was in my favor! I highly recommend him.

My family had an intractable issue dealing with our father's estate. Our Trust attorney recommended that we seek a litigator to deal with this issue as she was certain it would end up in court. When I met with Dan Spector it was clear he was extremely competent and understood what we needed to do to ...resolve the issue. Dan created a plan for litagation which lead to the other side requesting arbitration. He gave me valuable advice which avoided future conflicts. The arbitration successfully resolved our case saving me a great deal of stress, time and money. If you want a effective, professional attorney to represent you, call Dan Spector.