team-member

Denis Scinta

Buffalo, NY

Licensed for 52 years

Law Degree

Awards

Primary Practice Area

Child support

Language

English

About

Denis Scinta is a member of the Matrimonial & Family Law group at HoganWillig. Mr. Scinta has focused his practice exclusively in the area of Family Law, with particular expertise in Family Court matters, including: divorce, modification and enforcement proceedings, custody, child support, and more. Over an illustrious career, Denis also has specialized in other more atypical matters, such as adoptions, delinquencies, PINS affairs, and issues regarding the termination of parental rights. Given his diverse work, Mr. Scinta provides HoganWillig an abundance of experience in all sectors of Family Law.From 1971-1997, Mr. Scinta worked as a partner for the law firm Scinta, Rinaldo & Dee. Prior to HoganWillig, he worked as Special Counsel for Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Schuller & James. Mr. Scinta graduated in 1965 from State University of New York at Buffalo and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1969.Mr. Scinta has a strong civic commitment with extensive community involvement and has lectured at countless speaking engagements, seminars, radio, and television appearances. Overall, he is dedicated to helping clients resolve family and matrimonial law matters with passionate advocacy and tough legal strategy.

Practices Areas

Child custody

Child support

Divorce and separation

Family

Language

English

Contact

Hogan Willig Attorneys At Law2410 North Forest Road, Suite 301Buffalo, NY, 140682410 North Forest Road, Suite 301Buffalo, NY, 14068

Office: N/A

Website: N/A

Reviews

Harry
May 12, 2015

Denis Scinta was instrumental in assisting me in obtaining custody of my wife grand kids after she passed from cancer. Denis was very professional and took the time to explain the process to myself and my sister in law. I would recommend to anyone looking for an honest, respectful lawyer to use Denis Scinta as he is an excellent Lawyer. Thank you Denis!

john
May 5, 2015

Denis Scinta represented my wife and I in a case involving my daughter and helped us in every step of the process. He stayed in contact with us and gave us the best advice both in office meetings and in court. We were very satisfied with his representation.

Paula
April 22, 2015

You may not always know what Dennis is thinking and what he is doing but he gets the job done. He is focused on the end goal and always seems to have a plan B. He gets results. Dennis knows many people in the justice system and uses his resources wisely. Everyone seems to like and respect him. We had a very good experience with Dennis through tough personal times.

anonymous
February 3, 2015

He abandoned me as his client, did not follow through, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars when he ceased work on my case and disappeared off the face of the earth. The interesting part is, LG Law continued to bill me for work even in the months after he had abandoned me as a client to the tune of $10,000 and growing. Denis never told me he was leaving, and I never retained another attorney. I was promised an itemized statement which never arrived. Huge misconduct, gross negligence, even outright fraud. Trusted this man & LG Law with everything, put "life and death" in their hands, and they didn't care, just chucked me to the side of the road to rot. I don't even know what to do. Sure I will never see the money I was due. They have taken all my money and left me with nothing. Hope this helps other people so they don't get defrauded and swindled, left on the side of the road, as I was. Avoid this attorney and LG Law, at least in family law matters. Don't want anybody else to go through this.

Dave
January 16, 2015

Denis Scinta is any client's worst nightmare. He does not follow through on anything, never returns calls, and bills you for anything and everything, despite doing nothing. He was never organized and frequently was clueless about the status of my divorce case.

Judy
January 4, 2015

Denis Scinta is a joke. If you want to waste your money and get nothing done in the process, he's your man. He NEVER calls you back or responds to your emails unless it's at least the 3rd time you've tried to get hold of him. He doesn't fill you in on what is going on with your case and sometimes doesn't even let you know when there is a court date. We went to trial and needed another trial date to finish. He took his merry old time to set another trial date because he wanted the summer off....it was 8 months later and we still didn't have one...this case has been going on for almost 2 years and it still isn't finished....we needed 3 things done and in that time none of them were taken care of....then we found out by ourselves he was no longer with the firm...he didn't even have the decency to call and tell us! When we finally got hold of him he offered to finish the case on his own with another retainer of $3500.00 for starters! I think not....time to retire Denis because you suck as a lawyer! We will now be getting a lawyer who will actually do something!

anonymous
December 10, 2014

I found Mr Scinta to be very lazy and unconcerned. He barely did the min! Honestly. He seemed like an elderly grandpa who Fuddled his way threw - when I was asked to testify the other parties atty was actually snickering under their breath at him and rolling their eyes along with the other party. It was embarrassing. Not sure if he caught it himself.... But maybe he should have and realized its time to retire! When it came to billing --'he didn't miss a trick. I wouldn't hire him again if he worked for FREE! Pass on this guy

anonymous
February 1, 2014

Failed to come to court on day of scheduled hearing; sent inexperienced, junior associate instead who stated she was not prepared to represent me, did not know the case. When court date was rescheduled, he was not prepared to go forward (would not review evidence or give me a pre-trial meeting), so date was cancelled and I had to refile, which dragged out another six months. Wish I knew of a professional, responsive, competent attorney. Cost me over $7,000 so far and still no results. Would change attorneys in a blink if I had the money to. Calls himself "efficient" when instead he is neglectful, irresponsible.

anonymous
January 31, 2014

I used him for a family/custody battle. He was constantly late, always in a hurry, no knowledge of the case or didn't use any of the facts. never debated a single court order against other attorney Or judge. Made decisions without discussing it with me first. He cost me $8000 and my kids were taking away from me after raising them for 12 years..

anonymous
May 28, 2013

Mr. Scinta was very frequently late (30-60min) to scheduled court appearances. Out of approximately 12 court appearances, he may have actually showed up for 6-7, most of which he was on average about 30 minutes late for. On 5+ occasions he sent a Jr. attorney, who knew nothing on our case, to court to appear in his absence. This also included our final appearance when the Judge was scheduled to give her final decision after almost a year long court battle. The woman he sent that day had not yet even open our case file, had basically no knowledge on the case what so ever & did not even know mine, my husband's or my daughter's names. I do believe that the final less than favorable ruling rendered by the Judge on our last day in court was largely due to his frequent tardiness & absences to court appearances. The judge, on more than one occasion, expressed her frustration with this stating that he was wasting her time & on one occasion, after waiting for Mr. Scinta to arrive for almost an hour with no contact to myself or the court, actually made us reschedule for another date 3 weeks later. Don't waste your money. I gave this man way more of mine than he deserved.

Harry
May 12, 2015

Denis Scinta was instrumental in assisting me in obtaining custody of my wife grand kids after she passed from cancer. Denis was very professional and took the time to explain the process to myself and my sister in law. I would recommend to anyone looking for an honest, respectful lawyer to use Denis Scinta as he is an excellent Lawyer. Thank you Denis!

john
May 5, 2015

Denis Scinta represented my wife and I in a case involving my daughter and helped us in every step of the process. He stayed in contact with us and gave us the best advice both in office meetings and in court. We were very satisfied with his representation.

Paula
April 22, 2015

You may not always know what Dennis is thinking and what he is doing but he gets the job done. He is focused on the end goal and always seems to have a plan B. He gets results. Dennis knows many people in the justice system and uses his resources wisely. Everyone seems to like and respect him. We had a very good experience with Dennis through tough personal times.

anonymous
February 3, 2015

He abandoned me as his client, did not follow through, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars when he ceased work on my case and disappeared off the face of the earth. The interesting part is, LG Law continued to bill me for work even in the months after he had abandoned me as a client to the tune of $10,000 and growing. Denis never told me he was leaving, and I never retained another attorney. I was promised an itemized statement which never arrived. Huge misconduct, gross negligence, even outright fraud. Trusted this man & LG Law with everything, put "life and death" in their hands, and they didn't care, just chucked me to the side of the road to rot. I don't even know what to do. Sure I will never see the money I was due. They have taken all my money and left me with nothing. Hope this helps other people so they don't get defrauded and swindled, left on the side of the road, as I was. Avoid this attorney and LG Law, at least in family law matters. Don't want anybody else to go through this.

Dave
January 16, 2015

Denis Scinta is any client's worst nightmare. He does not follow through on anything, never returns calls, and bills you for anything and everything, despite doing nothing. He was never organized and frequently was clueless about the status of my divorce case.

Judy
January 4, 2015

Denis Scinta is a joke. If you want to waste your money and get nothing done in the process, he's your man. He NEVER calls you back or responds to your emails unless it's at least the 3rd time you've tried to get hold of him. He doesn't fill you in on what is going on with your case and sometimes doesn't even let you know when there is a court date. We went to trial and needed another trial date to finish. He took his merry old time to set another trial date because he wanted the summer off....it was 8 months later and we still didn't have one...this case has been going on for almost 2 years and it still isn't finished....we needed 3 things done and in that time none of them were taken care of....then we found out by ourselves he was no longer with the firm...he didn't even have the decency to call and tell us! When we finally got hold of him he offered to finish the case on his own with another retainer of $3500.00 for starters! I think not....time to retire Denis because you suck as a lawyer! We will now be getting a lawyer who will actually do something!

anonymous
December 10, 2014

I found Mr Scinta to be very lazy and unconcerned. He barely did the min! Honestly. He seemed like an elderly grandpa who Fuddled his way threw - when I was asked to testify the other parties atty was actually snickering under their breath at him and rolling their eyes along with the other party. It was embarrassing. Not sure if he caught it himself.... But maybe he should have and realized its time to retire! When it came to billing --'he didn't miss a trick. I wouldn't hire him again if he worked for FREE! Pass on this guy

anonymous
February 1, 2014

Failed to come to court on day of scheduled hearing; sent inexperienced, junior associate instead who stated she was not prepared to represent me, did not know the case. When court date was rescheduled, he was not prepared to go forward (would not review evidence or give me a pre-trial meeting), so date was cancelled and I had to refile, which dragged out another six months. Wish I knew of a professional, responsive, competent attorney. Cost me over $7,000 so far and still no results. Would change attorneys in a blink if I had the money to. Calls himself "efficient" when instead he is neglectful, irresponsible.

anonymous
January 31, 2014

I used him for a family/custody battle. He was constantly late, always in a hurry, no knowledge of the case or didn't use any of the facts. never debated a single court order against other attorney Or judge. Made decisions without discussing it with me first. He cost me $8000 and my kids were taking away from me after raising them for 12 years..

anonymous
May 28, 2013

Mr. Scinta was very frequently late (30-60min) to scheduled court appearances. Out of approximately 12 court appearances, he may have actually showed up for 6-7, most of which he was on average about 30 minutes late for. On 5+ occasions he sent a Jr. attorney, who knew nothing on our case, to court to appear in his absence. This also included our final appearance when the Judge was scheduled to give her final decision after almost a year long court battle. The woman he sent that day had not yet even open our case file, had basically no knowledge on the case what so ever & did not even know mine, my husband's or my daughter's names. I do believe that the final less than favorable ruling rendered by the Judge on our last day in court was largely due to his frequent tardiness & absences to court appearances. The judge, on more than one occasion, expressed her frustration with this stating that he was wasting her time & on one occasion, after waiting for Mr. Scinta to arrive for almost an hour with no contact to myself or the court, actually made us reschedule for another date 3 weeks later. Don't waste your money. I gave this man way more of mine than he deserved.

Harry
May 12, 2015

Denis Scinta was instrumental in assisting me in obtaining custody of my wife grand kids after she passed from cancer. Denis was very professional and took the time to explain the process to myself and my sister in law. I would recommend to anyone looking for an honest, respectful lawyer to use Denis Scinta as he is an excellent Lawyer. Thank you Denis!

john
May 5, 2015

Denis Scinta represented my wife and I in a case involving my daughter and helped us in every step of the process. He stayed in contact with us and gave us the best advice both in office meetings and in court. We were very satisfied with his representation.

Paula
April 22, 2015

You may not always know what Dennis is thinking and what he is doing but he gets the job done. He is focused on the end goal and always seems to have a plan B. He gets results. Dennis knows many people in the justice system and uses his resources wisely. Everyone seems to like and respect him. We had a very good experience with Dennis through tough personal times.

anonymous
February 3, 2015

He abandoned me as his client, did not follow through, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars when he ceased work on my case and disappeared off the face of the earth. The interesting part is, LG Law continued to bill me for work even in the months after he had abandoned me as a client to the tune of $10,000 and growing. Denis never told me he was leaving, and I never retained another attorney. I was promised an itemized statement which never arrived. Huge misconduct, gross negligence, even outright fraud. Trusted this man & LG Law with everything, put "life and death" in their hands, and they didn't care, just chucked me to the side of the road to rot. I don't even know what to do. Sure I will never see the money I was due. They have taken all my money and left me with nothing. Hope this helps other people so they don't get defrauded and swindled, left on the side of the road, as I was. Avoid this attorney and LG Law, at least in family law matters. Don't want anybody else to go through this.

Dave
January 16, 2015

Denis Scinta is any client's worst nightmare. He does not follow through on anything, never returns calls, and bills you for anything and everything, despite doing nothing. He was never organized and frequently was clueless about the status of my divorce case.

Judy
January 4, 2015

Denis Scinta is a joke. If you want to waste your money and get nothing done in the process, he's your man. He NEVER calls you back or responds to your emails unless it's at least the 3rd time you've tried to get hold of him. He doesn't fill you in on what is going on with your case and sometimes doesn't even let you know when there is a court date. We went to trial and needed another trial date to finish. He took his merry old time to set another trial date because he wanted the summer off....it was 8 months later and we still didn't have one...this case has been going on for almost 2 years and it still isn't finished....we needed 3 things done and in that time none of them were taken care of....then we found out by ourselves he was no longer with the firm...he didn't even have the decency to call and tell us! When we finally got hold of him he offered to finish the case on his own with another retainer of $3500.00 for starters! I think not....time to retire Denis because you suck as a lawyer! We will now be getting a lawyer who will actually do something!

anonymous
December 10, 2014

I found Mr Scinta to be very lazy and unconcerned. He barely did the min! Honestly. He seemed like an elderly grandpa who Fuddled his way threw - when I was asked to testify the other parties atty was actually snickering under their breath at him and rolling their eyes along with the other party. It was embarrassing. Not sure if he caught it himself.... But maybe he should have and realized its time to retire! When it came to billing --'he didn't miss a trick. I wouldn't hire him again if he worked for FREE! Pass on this guy

anonymous
February 1, 2014

Failed to come to court on day of scheduled hearing; sent inexperienced, junior associate instead who stated she was not prepared to represent me, did not know the case. When court date was rescheduled, he was not prepared to go forward (would not review evidence or give me a pre-trial meeting), so date was cancelled and I had to refile, which dragged out another six months. Wish I knew of a professional, responsive, competent attorney. Cost me over $7,000 so far and still no results. Would change attorneys in a blink if I had the money to. Calls himself "efficient" when instead he is neglectful, irresponsible.

anonymous
January 31, 2014

I used him for a family/custody battle. He was constantly late, always in a hurry, no knowledge of the case or didn't use any of the facts. never debated a single court order against other attorney Or judge. Made decisions without discussing it with me first. He cost me $8000 and my kids were taking away from me after raising them for 12 years..

anonymous
May 28, 2013

Mr. Scinta was very frequently late (30-60min) to scheduled court appearances. Out of approximately 12 court appearances, he may have actually showed up for 6-7, most of which he was on average about 30 minutes late for. On 5+ occasions he sent a Jr. attorney, who knew nothing on our case, to court to appear in his absence. This also included our final appearance when the Judge was scheduled to give her final decision after almost a year long court battle. The woman he sent that day had not yet even open our case file, had basically no knowledge on the case what so ever & did not even know mine, my husband's or my daughter's names. I do believe that the final less than favorable ruling rendered by the Judge on our last day in court was largely due to his frequent tardiness & absences to court appearances. The judge, on more than one occasion, expressed her frustration with this stating that he was wasting her time & on one occasion, after waiting for Mr. Scinta to arrive for almost an hour with no contact to myself or the court, actually made us reschedule for another date 3 weeks later. Don't waste your money. I gave this man way more of mine than he deserved.