Where to begin....I rate this so called "attorney" a negative 100 on a scale of 100. Behind the facade of the diploma and suit, he is a straight up disrespectful prick.
I could not agree more with the reviews from Amira, Coco, Maria, Pamela, Brian, Nancy and Jasmine in warning you to stay as far away from this firm as possible. Like so many of you trusting individuals, I read the reviews and thought Patel would be a good lawyer for my sister's case. I didn't just refer her to him, I also attended every meeting she and he had pertaining to her case. From the day we walked into his office, he acted very unprofessional. Cursing and putting down a mutual attorney the three of us knew. I should have seen it as a warning sign of his disrespectful ways but I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt considering the good reviews read on yelp.
I remember it was around Christmas time because he made sure to get my sister to sign paper work committing her to him getting paid prior to taking off to India for weeks. Upon his return and similar to what others have commented, little by little his ugly side began to come out. It is very apparent that he is extremely stressed out and lacks the compassion to empathize with the injured clients at least he did with the nine of us that have taken the time to write about our negative experiences. My sister and I spent more time talking to his staff then him and during the times we did speak to him, he seemed very on edge.
I hold myself as well as others accountable for what needs to take place and although I can't recall exactly what I was holding him accountable for, Patel made it very apparent that he did not like that. He raised his voice at me and said that if I was unhappy with his service, for us to go elsewhere. Needless to say, I left his office and got on the phone reaching out to other attorneys that could help my sister out. My sister being in pain and eager to be seen by doctors as soon as possible, gave him a pass on this initial display of his nasty behavior. He tries to intimidate and knows what he is doing. Not sure if that is a custom among Indian "men" but here in America I'm not accustomed to being talked down that way nor will I ever be okay with it. He realized what he had done apparently as he came out to the hallway and tried to apologize I guess. Not sure as I was done acknowledging him.
My sweet, injured sister despite being unhappy with Patel's service, chose to continue with him as her body was in severe pain and in desperate need of medical treatment. That is until he blew up on her too. Prior to his latest blow up event, my sister had realized that every time she complained to Patel about not being seen by any doctors for months as insurance was denying her to, his response was "I can't do anything about the doctors, you need to look into that yourself". What kind of BS is that if each and every time she reached out to her worker's comp insurance they would tell her "I can't talk to you, you have an attorney". This was ongoing for months and for all of you that are in pain from being injured at work and you take the time to hire an attorney to fight for your rights but instead you are told by the attorney that is going to get paid for his services, that you need to handle the doctor side of the case on your own, is mind boggling. How the hell, if worker's comp insurance will only speak to hired attorney...
Back to blow up day, we had attended court and I still wasn't talking to Patel. Well he being the coward that he is requested for my injured sister to go into a room without me, along with his assistant Denise and attorney from other party. When my sister came out of the room, stressed and shocked that this idiot had screamed at her in front of Denise, the other attorney, and an additional witness who was also in the room. He had yelled "don't be calling my office so many times, do you understand". My poor stressed out sister said to me, I'm done with him. We looked around the room for the witness who was a court worker and she too was in shock to have witness an attorney screaming at his client. I must say I was not shocked by his brewing behavior but what did shock me was that Denise, his accomplice, stands by and apparently goes along with this unacceptable behavior.
Anyways run the other way, as I would hate for anyone else to have to endured such display of nastiness and unprofessionalism. read more