Jon H Weiner

Jon Weiner

Thank you for your review. I regret that I was unable to agree with your view of the case. Sometimes that happens. “No” is especially hard to hear when a prospective client feels very deeply that he or she has been badly wronged. However, my job is to provide clients with an honest and accurate evaluation of their cases. As one can imagine, that's sometimes an unpleasant task. However, I gotta call 'em as I see 'em. Out of the thousands of cases we’ve handled, it is inevitable that a relatively few people are going to be very unhappy with what I have to say. Occasionally, when a prospective client meets with me for the first time, he or she will expect that I’ve taken time to review a (sometimes voluminous) set of documents provided in advance of the meeting. However, that is not usually an expectation set by our office. If we think we need documents to understand a potential client’s case, we ask for them. In fact, it is not uncommon after a first meeting for us to ask a potential client to send us certain documents we think would be helpful in assessing the case. From your description of the case, it sounds like you had hoped we’d take the case on a contingency basis. When an attorney takes a case on a contingency basis, the attorney assumes the entire risk of litigation. If the case is not strong, and the client doesn’t win, then the attorney has spent thousands of dollars in costs (that he will likely never recover) and dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of hours working for free. That’s a tremendous risk to our office, since there’s only one of me and I can only work so many hours per year. That’s why attorneys who take cases on a contingency basis do so only when they believe that a case is strong. It’s not because those attorneys are greedy and care only about money. It’s because those attorneys need to stay in business to survive. Thanks, Jon