Ferrara Law Group, Pc

Aaron Peskin and his team have been invaluable to me and my small business. Legal issues often arise unexpectedly, and I remember feeling anxious and uncertain about many things. Aaron took the time to explain everything clearly, and with the support of his team, they provided essential guidance and also help with preventative measures. Their expertise, patience, and dedication have been a tremendous support. Thank you!

I hired Ralph Ferrara for a lawsuit that was pretty easy to settle. I should have fired him while I had the chance. It took him months to ultimately pressure me into accepting less then I deserved. I settled for less then I deserved, and then the other party did not complete their side of the agreement. When I explained to Ralph how I felt about the situation. He became rude and started using profanity. I then explained to him that what he was charging is too much compared to other attorneys and then he really got disrespectful. I want people to know what kind of person Ralph Ferrara is so they wont have to go through what i did.

After being unsuccessful in settling a fee dispute with a Delaware County attorney, I filed a lawsuit, in a self-represented capacity, against that attorney. Because, in addition to breach of contract, I mistakenly included negligence and professional legal malpractice counts in my complaint, I was required to have another attorney vouch that I had legitimate negligence and malpractice claims. I retained Attorney Peskin to produce the required expert report, and to testify on my behalf as an expert witness to his report findings. Mr. Peskin holds himself out, on his curriculum vitae, to have years of expertise in breach of contract and negligence matters. Months after filing my complaint on which Mr. Peskin based his expert report, the attorney that I filed the complaint against filed preliminary objections (POs) to my complaint alleging, amongst other things, that my complaint did “not plead factual allegations to support legal contentions”. The Court upheld the attorney’s POs and struck my complaint because it was not specific enough as to what my allegations/claims were. Given Mr. Peskin’s self-proclaimed expertise in the areas of breach of contract and negligence matters, I feel that Mr. Peskin should have known that my complaint would likely not survive the attorney’s inevitable POs. After I informed Mr. Peskin that the Court had struck my complaint, he subsequently issued to me his final expert report which still supported the strickened complaint. The Court allowed me to file an amended complaint to address the lack of specificity issue. My amended complaint contained just a single breach of contract and no negligence or malpractice counts. I timely provided Mr. Peskin with a copy of my amended complaint which I filed with his expert report attached. Mr. Peskin never revised his expert report to reflect my amended complaint. Instead, his report still contained its original language supporting the no longer applicable malpractice and negligence counts. At the time, I did not realize, being a non-attorney, the future, very negative consequences to my case of the expert witness report not being revised by Mr. Peskin post amended complaint. Years later, Mr. Peskin’s expert report was rejected by the Court not once but twice, first by a Court-appointed, three-attorney arbitration panel and then by a trial judge. Even though an admissible expert report and an expert witness to testify at trial was the reason that I had retained Mr. Peskin to begin with, both times the Court ruled that Mr. Peskin’s report was not admissible into evidence and both times ruled that Mr. Peskin was not allowed to testify. The arbitration panel stated ”an expert in the context of legal malpractice is not appropriate in this particular matter because of the fact that your Amended Complaint is just limited to breach of contract.” The trial judge was more vocal in his rebuke of Mr. Peskin’s expert report and related testimony. The judge stated that Mr. Peskin “should not be testifying because this is a contract action … It’s not a negligence action. It’s not a malpractice action…And the expert report really delves into those areas … it can’t be offered in this contract action, okay, because it’s not relevant, it’s immaterial … it’s inappropriate …” Mr. Peskin charged me $2,800 related to his 3.5 page expert report despite it being rejected by both the three-attorney arbitration panel and the judge. Mr. Peskin also charged me $2,760 related to his testimony that he was prohibited by the Court not once but twice from providing and, therefore, never provided. In total, I paid $5,560 for Mr. Peskin’s expertise, expertise which was rejected by the Court. For four plus years, I mistakenly thought I would have an expert report to admit into evidence and an expert witness to testify on my behalf at trial. I found out this hard truth the day before trial.

Reached out to Aaron right before the holidays to get some legal paperwork in order for our business. He was able to squeeze us in his schedule to accommodate our needs! Aaron was very responsive and answered ALL of our emails within minutes (WOW). Couldn't say enough about our experience working together!

I had a very negative experience with Ferrara Law Group and attorney Aaron Peskin in particular. Some seven years after first retaining them I am still dealing with the aftermath of that very poor decision.