Law Office of Samuel Fishman

This afternoon I took my grandmother to an appointment with Esquire Samuel Fishman. She wanted to get a few letters explained as she does not speak English, I was her translator. We were walking into his office and it was taking a little time because my grandmother is in a wheelchair and they do not have a ramp for her to go up on. A man walks by us and mutters under his breath «what the hell» I didn’t want to assume it was towards us because I had never seen him before. Then he walks up to his secretary and says «Damn it these people». I was very offended by this and was planning on questioning him about what he meant by «these people». That man ended up being Samuel Fishman. We come into his office and my grandmother is by the wall in her wheelchair, he comes in after us and says «fine, I’ll walk around» like he expected my grandmother to move out of the way. Then when I’m translating some things for my grandmother she is not understanding, he looks like at her and asks «are you dumb or something?», I immediately intervene and say «please do not disrespect my elderly grandmother» Fishman tells me «who the hell are you? I’m not taking orders from a 16 year old!» (I am a US Marine veteran) I calmly say to him «please stop being so disrespectful, she just wants to understand. Can you treat us like human beings, like clients?» He gets very angry and screams at me «how about you treat me like a human being, MAYBE then I’ll treat YOU PEOPLE like that». He proceeds to ask my grandmother «where are you from? Ukraine?» My grandmother doesn’t understand and just quietly nods at him to which he says «That explains so much. How about she goes and takes her problems up with Putin?» At this point I don’t even say anything and just shake my head. He yells at me «what the hell are you staring at?!» I realized this conversation was completely pointless at this point. It was not going anywhere. I just told my grandmother lets go, and we left. This office is supposed to deal with elderly cases and they clearly do not respect their elderly clients.