Reviews

Very nice guy until you hire him, Non responsive, unprepared for court, no strategy to win, just goes along for the ride, doesn’t read emails but charges for them , and then gets surprised when issue comes up in court. You would never know if he would show up for court, you would be reminding him without a response dozens of times then he would show last minute and walk around, very incompetent, doesn’t have any DHS contacts, you have to provide it to him, never advocate for the client with DHS, literally tells the other side he is just there for the money, hangs on to the judge summary so he can charge to send it to you later, then charges but doesn’t send it, corrects errors in opposing counsel’s work, and charges the client, petitions are misspelled and you can expect to pay $2800 for each document he files. Therefore who can afford to reply ? Has no staff so you pay $300/hr for admin work. Having him in your corner was 3 times more stressful than the court issue. Also, won’t answer questions saying he can’t give you legal advice on the case or other petitions even though he was paid. Something very quirky with this guy. Sadly the case could have been quashed on day 1 if he was competent as other party lied on the petition regarding title 30 criteria, etc. motivated by filthy lucre and will milk you dry and will not advance your case . Will obligate you financially going way over the retainer. Avoid and run away.

My boyfriend had been a client of Matt’s for some time. Never had any issues, he always had my boyfriend put cash in an envelope with his name on it in his drop box (which is shady but we could never get ahold of him to give it to someone directly so he advised us to do this instead.)My boyfriend had a balance of $600ish and dropped him off $1500 in March OVER paying him to take care of future matters. Now fast forward to this August, Mr. Eckstein is claiming he never received our March payment even though the day in question we let him know we were dropping money off. We had done this method NUMEROUS times before and never had any issues. On top of that, he did absolutely nothing to solve our case, and we settled it with the other party outside the help of Mr. Eckstein because we could NEVER get ahold of him. I’m not sure why he’s scamming his loyal customers but DO NOT do business here, he is a FRAUD!

Mr Eckstein is a great attorney, who diligently works for his client.

Matt Eckstein is a fraud. My mother paid him a $3000 retainer and he disappeared for months on a very time sensitive case. Not only did he use $1200 of it for reading a few small emails, we reached out daily for over a month and never had our calls or emails returned or the work we paid him for taken care of in any way. Now that we are trying to get the remaining balance refunded, it’s been over a month and we still haven’t received that check in the mail, and mind you we overnighted the retainer to get things moving and he was super responsive until he received the money. Do not use this law firm. They will steal your money and you will get zero results.