Reardon & Chasar

Sprafka, is one of my favorite attorneys and a great litigator and trial attorney. Having an unhappy client in a collections case is typical. This is why most attorneys won't take collection cases. Basically, the job is to force an uncaring court to take money from someone who may not have it and who definitely doesn't want to give it to your client. Further, you then have to communicate this issue to your client over and over again, until you are either fired or you get the money. Compounding this issue, an attorney who does not work for a collection agency or a bank has little to no resources to uncover hidden assets. The only tool an attorney doing private collections has is the debtors sworn interrogatories and interrogatories sent to known banks in the area, which are worthless if the debtor is hiding assets. If I was ever in a jam and needed legal help, I would hire Joe. Respectfully, Jared Ewbank, esq.

I had the misfortune to have hired Joe Sprafka III of Reardon & Chasar to represent me in a $50,000 debt collection matter. Despite initially acting like there was a case, and multiple condescending remarks about opposing counsel such as repeatedly saying, dismissively, that "[opposing counsel's first name] is not a litigator", in such a context to lead a reasonable person to the inference that the gentleman represented himself as a capable litigator who would easily handle the case, the gentleman seemed remarkably uninterested in pursuing any meaningful legal action on my behalf. When the negotiations went nowhere apart from wasting time, he claimed that actually filing or even bothering to prepare a case would be a "change of posture", and made it clear he felt no sense of urgency, despite his own statements about other creditors being involved and the active disposal of assets previously purported to be able to pay off this debt. He never called me when he said he would, or at all. At the end, he didn't even pick up the phone for my number yet picked up on the second ring when I called from a number unrecognized to him. This lawyer's relationship with the opposing counsel, or his own inflated self-opinion, seem to make him unable or unwilling to successfully represent a client against her. He may consider her "not a litigator", but from where I sit, it seems she's a far better advocate for her client.