Why clients come to us

Legal counsel, not a recovery middleman

This distinction matters more in investment fraud than in any other area of law, because the people who defraud investors have learned to dress as the people who help them. It is worth being precise about what the difference actually is.

An attorney is admitted to a bar and appears on a public register that anyone can search. Jorge Altamirano is admitted to the New York State Bar, registration number 5220058, admitted in 2014, status Active. Those are not marketing claims; they are entries on a register maintained by someone else, and you can check them without our help.

An attorney also owes duties that are enforceable against them: of competence, of loyalty, of candor to the client and to the court, and specific duties in relation to client money. A recovery company owes you a contract, if that. The practical consequence is that when a matter cannot be helped, a law firm’s obligation is to say so rather than to sell you the next step.

Evidence first, strategy second

Legal strategy begins with documents, not with assurances. What the messages actually say, what the bank and blockchain records actually show, what the company actually represented in writing, and what the public registers actually record — these decide what is possible. Everything upstream of them is speculation, and speculation is expensive.

This is also why the preservation stage matters so much and why it is the thing this firm raises first. The facts that decide a matter are usually sitting in a chat export, a bank statement and a register entry, and two of the three tend to disappear if nobody acts.

Financial-fraud focus

These matters turn on specific things: how firms are licensed and what a register entry actually permits; how clone firms are constructed and how they can be identified; how leveraged trading platforms work and what an authorized broker’s records would look like; how funds are routed through processors and exchanges; how blockchain analysis establishes a path and where its limits are.

That knowledge is what makes the difference between a claim that can be articulated against an identifiable party and a general account of having been defrauded by someone unknown.

Confidentiality, stated accurately

Information you give the firm is handled confidentially in accordance with applicable law and the firm’s professional obligations. There is one qualification that many law-firm websites leave out, and it is better said plainly: information sent through a website before an attorney‑client relationship has been established may not be protected as a privileged communication. That is true here and true everywhere, and a site that implies otherwise is overstating its position.

Please also do not send passwords, private keys, seed phrases or authentication codes to this firm or to anyone else. If sensitive material is required later, a secure method will be arranged.

Clear communication

You should expect to know what stage a matter is at, what is being done, and what the realistic range of outcomes is — including the poor ones. Silence is one of the things people describe most often about the experience that brought them here, and it is not how a matter should be run.

The firm is reachable throughout its working hours, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

No promises about recovery

No attorney can guarantee that money lost to fraud will be recovered, and professional rules in most jurisdictions prohibit saying otherwise. A guarantee of recovery is therefore not a demonstration of confidence; it is an indication that whoever is speaking is not bound by those rules.

What can be assessed honestly is whether there is a viable claim, against whom it would lie, whether that party can realistically be reached, and what pursuing it would involve in time and cost. Sometimes that assessment is encouraging. Frequently it is not. Either way you are entitled to it straight.

No case results on this site

You will not find settlement figures, recovery amounts, testimonials, awards or rankings anywhere on this website. That is deliberate. Outcomes depend on facts that differ from one matter to the next, and a number taken out of that context tells a prospective client nothing useful about their own situation.

What is published instead is what the firm does, how it assesses a matter, and credentials you can check on a public register without taking anyone’s word for it.