Sari Friedman

I also disagree with the many biased complaints on this site. I am a male registered nurse who just finished a three year battle with my Sociopath wife who vowed to bankrupt me by its end. My use of Sari and what I found to be her excellent staff, turned what could have been a complete disaster into a tolerable situation. I will directly answer several of these complaints right here. First of all, I also dealt with Ms. Printz during the course of my employing this firm. She did my initial deposition with me at my wife's attorney and was very professional and businesslike. Several times during the deposition she spoke to me about how to better answer the questions and once she even asked for a break, took me outside, and laid out the "what to do" in no uncertain terms to avoid me talking too much and saying things I did not want to say. Did I cry and say this person is "anti-social"? NO!!! I said this person is here to help me, I had better shut up and listen, followed suit and did well. Sari passes you off to an associate? Do any of you realize how often Sari must be in court and on trial to get her type of ability to win the cases she wins? There is no way ANY attorney could do that and still give justice to the myriad of day to day tasks involved in multiple divorces. I liken these types of complaints to patients I see in the hospital who have high level complicated surgeries with the best surgeons in New York. I often get asked if the surgeon knows about their low level headache or other irrelevant information, showing me they are completely clueless of the process. If you went to the best heart surgeon in the world, he/she is not dealing with your day to day trivialities! They would NEVER get their surgeries done and they would not have gotten to be the BEST to treat you! They need to be in the OR constantly to be that good, and Sari has to be on trial and in court! THAT is why they hire a staff to do the day to day tasks. I had the most good fortune to deal with Andrea Friedman in my day to day dealings at the firm, an attorney who I cannot express how wonderful she really was. She was firm when she had to be, listened when it was necessary, and NEVER failed to respond to my inquiries. As far as complaints being "made personal" by Sari, complete hogwash! I myself complained to Sari about an associate after about 8 months of dealing with him and Sari called me ON A SUNDAY to ask me my problems and immediately reassigned my case with nothing but an "at your service" attitude, eliminating the last several hourly charges from my bill. I never once found Sari to be anything but professional and having my best interests in mind. In three years she attempted five times to settle my case and my wife refused! On custody alone, Sari explained THE FIRST DAY I MET HER that she will not give concessions for joint custody, as NY is a sole custody state and joint custody is an illusion. Within a year your spouse can refile for sole custody and no judge will even attempt to give it to you after your child has been living with your spouse for that long unless you can prove her unfit (yea, go ahead and try that one!), making all of the concessions you gave up to get it lost. I would bet every one of these negative posters never even understood that concept! In the course of three years I consulted three high level NY divorce attorney's TWICE as well as three court psychologists countless times to get opinions if my case was on the right track and all was being done correctly (just as I would do if I had a serious medical illness!). At every turn, both her competition AND the people who deal with her on a steady basis in the courts praised Sari's ability and her handling of my case. Every single attorney I consulted on the outside who took a detailed look at my case told me that not only was the best being done in the circumstances, but if it went worst case scenario (which it did), NO ONE would be better to handle it than Sari. Let's face it guys, THE SYSTEM SUCKS and it is against us from the outset. It rewards the bad behavior of our spouses and punishes us as we try to see our children. NO ATTORNEY can help you with that. The real culprits are THE JUDGES, who drag these cases on with impunity and live the life of the people in OZ (little work and all play) and a SYSTEM designed to keep you feeding it so they can live off of you. After all attempts at settlement failed, we went to trial, and that is where you will really see Sari and her firm shine! I spent several days on trial with Sari and her BRILLIANCE at what she does is where your money goes. She and Andrea were well prepared, extremely knowledgeable, and fought for me like tigers. Finally my case settled, not EXACTLY as I would have liked, but far better than many of my friends I have seen in my shoes. I have Sari and Andrea to thank for that. My advice to ANYONE going through divorce is to try and settle it out before the system gets a hold of you because it is a black hole that will suck your life and that of your family away. Should that not be possible, I highly recommend the services of Sari and her firm. Just be realistic and don't expect her to be a magician. She is bound by a corrupt system that favors women and drags cases on to keep many people in place that would otherwise have a difficult time being employed in an honest world!