After calling his office, his case manager (Art Cortez) came to my house and he told me how good mr. Bernstein was, also told me about his 35 years experience and he went on and on so I believed all that and decided to hire him to defend my brother in a child molestation case (this is a long story but I'll make it short) I paid him 50K and the same thing that happened to Tammy of Victorville, I never talked to Bernstein over the phone or went to his office to discuss the case, sent other paralegals to court out of about 12 times in court he omly showed up about 4 times, even the judge asked his rep when is Bernstein going to come in.
He took a whole year to start the trial, during that year we gave his investigator a lot of information, which I paid him $3500 dlls. (jeremy Karpel, he was the one that represented Bernstein in court) phone numbers, names, addresses, but he also didn't do anything, the times he came to court we had to chase him to the parking lot to try to give him information or to ask him what's been going on, but he would not tell me anything. I also paid $3500 for a psychological examination, which I never heard the report and the times I asked I never got an answer, and by the way it was never mentioned in court.
During this year we never heard of any offers. Before the trial started Bernstein told us that he had witnesses and that he was ready, the truth was that all of that was just a lie, because he was not ready, we finally got an offer just before the trial which my brother refused. Well the trial only lasted 3 days and 1 1/2 day was to select the jury so the actual trial lasted a day and a half, oviously with a bad result, but a lot of things we told him he never mentioned during the trial and he didn't have any witnesses, I was very shocked by the way the trial went and the first thing that came to my mind was "what a fu - g thief". When Bernstein came out of court I wanted an explanation and the only words that came out of his mouth "I don't want to hear ifs, ands and buts" and he walked away from us, and I never heard from him again.
Advise to people ; Never hire this guy.
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