Summary: Fields is incompetent and classless
I hired Attorney Fields and his team to represent me in a highly litigious divorce. He was the second attorney I brought on after four years of gross injustice. At the time, I was defending myself with a fair bit of success but unfortunately became very ill and was forced to outsource the process. I take responsibility for failing to diligence him adequately - what a terrible mistake. It cost me dearly.
Fields and his partner Wendy Murstein proved to be grossly incompetent. They take absolutely no pride in their work and do not believe in a results oriented approach. Although they charge like Tier One attorneys, their work product, litigation and argument skills, presence and demeanor are abhorrent. They failed at every critical juncture in the case and I later uncovered that they were in collusion with opposing counsel and the myriad of third party leaches ordered into the case by the Court. Under their leadership, I was stripped of custody of my two kids, my right to see and parent my kids, all of my earnings and the bulk of my assets. All of this transpired during months that I was in the hospital fighting for my life.
In every legal case there will be a loser and a winner. Fields is not just a loser, however, he is a classless thief. His reaction to his string of failures was to attempt to abandon the case by falsely accusing me of lying to him and the court about my health. He filed paperwork to withdraw days before I almost died on the operating table. I ended up having to fight him (my own lawyer) in Court from my hospital bed. His motion was of course overturned. The Judge found that he was attempting to drop the case before it went to trial despite having already billed hundreds of thousands of dollars for the trial prep.
The Court's decision, while gratifying, turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory. Fields was forced to continue to represent me but he did so with a combination of incompetence and spite that the BBO lawyers believe will be grounds for disbarment. I have never been treated with such disrespect, especially from someone working for me to whom I paid such gargantuan sums.
I would write the majority of his briefs and would give him a script to read in Court. He would alter my written work and refuse to follow instruction. In Court, rather than read what I wrote, he would mutter extemporaneously, meekly and at times incomprehensibly. It was soul crushing to watch and listen to his (and ultimately my) debacle. In the end, I would have been better off defending myself half dead from the ICU.
As I alluded to above, I am working with the BBO to have Fields disbarred but obviously this will require some time. In the meantime, I hope this review will prevent other prospective clients from the devastation of hiring this soon to be insolvent crook. read more
