Baum Jay S Attorney At Law

Jay Baum! The worst divorce lawyer on Staten Island… I hired him 10 years ago and he took me through the ringer. It cost me over 50k and almost lose my Business. He is very unprofessional doesn’t know how to represent himself as well as his client in the court room. The other lawyer demands all the terms and he sits there like a little pussy and gives the other side everything ! 10 years later I’m reading through my divorce papers which is now the time that my ex-​wife should be out of my house that’s she’s living in and I come to find out that there was a clerical error on his part with the dates! So I called him up for him to rectify the mistake. In his words this should not be a problem we will take her back to court and the judge will favor your defense. Ok Jay … How much??? Well. Being you were an old client just give me retainer fee of $ 2500. Oh this isn’t pro bono because it was your mistake don’t worry … It would be a quick in and out quick appearance. Lol. So he attempts to serve my ex wife with papers giving him all the information on the time she leaves in the morning to serve her. Instead of serving her he was following my daughter for a week and a half that is only 16 years. The server doesn’t know a 16-​year-​old to a 45-​year-​old woman! Finally 11 months later we go to court with now owing him over $ 5000. We go to court and he is unprepared with no paperwork to provide to the courts regarding the issue the judge laughed in his face and said you are wasting everyone’s time! He still pleaded with the judge and said we have a case so the judge said OK Jay your still wasting everyone’s time But I’ll give you another court date in 4 months from now. With that I was furious. I stormed out of the court room called his office and fired him. He is the Worst!!! The first sign is going to his office and looking on his walls all pictures of the titanic and that’s exactly what kind of lawyer he is! He will sink you. You’ll need more than a Life preserver to survive… Beware beware beware…

My husband has been trying to get his deposit back for almost a YEAR now. The office is constantly blowing us off and we’re about to file a claim against him. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!! Look at CitySearch reviews!!! If I could click NO STARS, I would.