Smith Buss & Jacobs LLP

I don't know about anyone else at the firm, but Ilene Guralnick was referred to us by the NY City Bar Legal Referral Service, and she was incredibly helpful. Her advice helped us out of a jam with a lousy landlord without a protracted legal fight, saving us a lot of money. I recommend contacting her for housing related legal issues.

Ken Jacobs is an exceptional attorney. I would highly recommend him for any complex real estate matter. If it pertains to a cooperative or condominium, even more the reason to hire him. Ken has a deep understanding of offering plans, governing documents, lease and license agreements. Not to mention a ton of wisdom to go along with it. My wife and I were impressed not only with how hard Ken worked for us, but also with how effectively he communicated with us. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give him a fifteen (15) for responsiveness. Our calls were answered, our emails were read, he zealously advocated for us, and we could tell that he genuinely cared. Thank you Ken and everyone at SBJ Law.

Self serving, disrespectful, unhelpful and condescending. I initially called this law firm to workout a payment plan for past due maintenance fees (which the management firm that hired them was at fault for) and was met with nothing but rebuttals and condescending tones. They were extremely unhelpful and they probably would have made matters worst if I didn't take the situation into my own hands and pay what was due in full at that moment. Get this....once full payment was received, they sent another letter to my home threatening me to leave and that I was not allowed to stay there. Whoa! Do not hire this company. The management firm that hired them is incompetent. Not sure why I thought their legal team would be any better.

I would not recommend Michael Coppa, who is an associate at this firm. He was slow to respond throughout the process and rescheduled my closing date multiple times. Then on the day of closing (which he suggested), not only did he not show up, he added the wrong address for the FedEx delivery of a lot of the important paperwork (deed, etc). We had to call him almost a dozen times to get this fixed, and only after badgering multiple times did we ultimately find a work around. Then a lot of the paperwork he emailed over had the wrong unit number and other incorrect information - almost as if he just blindly CTRL-V'ed things over to us. During this whole process, he proved to be completely unprofessional, non-empathetic, and non-cooperative. What made it even more infuriating was that their secretary was also extremely unprofessional, putting us immediately on hold mid-sentence, hanging up, and/or giving attitude. I am so fortunate to have had a great lawyer, title company rep, and bank lawyer present to help me get across the finish line, or else the closing would not have happened.

Unprofessional behavior, they only waste your time. Consulted with one of the partners, Jeff Buss, who led us on, saying they can take the case, only to be ignored afterwards. Spent hours prepping material to provide, for him to ignore all following messages and calls afterwards. He did not have the respect or courtesy to respond, even honestly declining to take on the case. Very unprofessional.