Professional and kind. A great lawyer. Tried and true. I noticed older review and it doesn't match how he operates. I like that he uses traditional methods and knows the law regardless of how his paperwork load is. read more

Attorney Santoro has always been efficient, knowledgeable and accessible throughout the many real estate transactions in which I have been involved with him. read more

Our experience with Mr. Santoro during our house closing process was the most seamless! he was very professional, timely and got the job done better than I could have imagined. we are so lucky to have found an excellent attorney like himself to help us when we needed him! I would highly recommend Mr. Santoro to anyome looking for an attorny! Couldn't thank him enough! read more

I'm sure at one point in his career, Attorney Anthony Santoro would have been considered a good real estate lawyer. Let me assure you that this is no longer the case. In summary, this "professional", almost cost his clients a loss of $50k as well as the sale of their home on multiple occasions during a two month stretch of trying to get a deal to close. He was representing both transactions (buy and close) and it was clearly too much for him. Attorney Santoro will tell you multiple times over the course of your business dealings that he "has been doing this for 35 years" and that he "knows what he's doing." However, just about everything he considers good practice, would prove otherwise. Let's start with professionalism and accessibility. If you think that seeing a private AOL email for your lawyer is a red flag, I can assure you that is most definitely the case here. This may very well be the original email he opened when he started real estate law 35 years ago but it's not like he uses it anyway, he's the only lawyer I've ever worked with that prefers phone calls to do business over email; leaving no paper trail for important developments with the deal. Attorney Santoro also does not have a paralegal in his office which would be fine, if he was competent enough to handle the paperwork load. Then again, his mandatory hour and a half lunch break probably doesn't do him any favors there either. Lastly, before moving on from the topic of paper work, this seasoned lawyer really shows his tenure and experience with the brilliant use of real estate bar contracts and documents dated back to 1994, making things all the more difficult for attorneys who practice in present day 2022. Moving on to interpersonal and social skills, all that can be said is that Attorney Santoro is the social equivalent of a soggy piece of bread. This leads to comments from the adjacent party's legal and realty team that were quite colorful and insulting. While he may have deserved every comment, it is pretty embarrassing to have to hear this about your own legal representation. Now to touch on what I think is the most egregious and important bit of information to leave in this review. He DOESN'T want his clients to win. Yes this may sound odd from someone who would make their living off their clients winning and closing deals, however everything he did in this situation proved otherwise. To start, he decided to get involved in the personal lives of his clients, commenting to the realtor that his clients did not have enough money to purchase the house they wanted. He also added that his clients were asking for an absurd amount of money for their house that would never sell for what they want because "it's in a piece of **** neighborhood in waterbury." Some additional comments from Mr. Santoro: "I'm not your secretary, you can send that email," "the figures aren't right, what are you not getting about that? Stop asking me about the figures because you wouldn't understand it anyway." In this unfortunate circumstance, the whole deal almost fell apart on the morning of closing, which is almost unheard of, but this is something that becomes more likely when having Mr. Santoro as your legal representation. When news of the deal falling apart, Mr. Santoro didn't seem to care much and showed zero signs of actually fighting for his clients money that was at stake. I can go on for probably another 1-2 pages but I am confident this will be enough information to state this: if you are a realtor and your clients are thinking about working with Mr Santoro, request your clients get different legal representation. He will talk down to you, be impossible to work with, and most importantly, leave you in the dark regarding any and all information close to closing, where communication is needed most. If you are a client and are looking to buy or sell a home, which may very well be the biggest purchase of your life, do not trust this legal representative with it. You will regret it. read more