Jack N. Sarkisian

I've know jack Sarkisian for several years and considered him a friend or at least more than just an acquaintance. He represented me in my divorce back in 2011 but I dismissed him after 6 months . He treated me with no respect. Looking back there were several red flags that I ignored about his pra...ctice style. First, "you have the luxury of being able to pay for your divorce." "it will be the best money you'll ever spend." These are two things he repeated to me often. He took two vacations after receiving two different retainers in representing me. He made no attempt to settle my case upon my request. He did not communicate to me through email or respond to any of my emails in a timely manner. But his biggest failure was his lack of knowledge in understanding the laws on alimony and child support. Attorney Sarkisian argued that alimony is based on "need." This is untrue. It's based on a income level after a child support calculation is deducted if it applies and in my case, I have one child. In his argument over temp orders, Mr. Sarkisian did not point out that to the judge. His calculations in his argument didn't take into consideration attribution of income, medical coverage or outside income in my case rental income that my wife was receiving from the multi family home we lived in. The omission of these facts coupled with his poor judgement in allowing our temp orders to be heard by the most heavy handed judge in Middlesex Probate Court for support has put my case in a never ending cycle. My wife has received an enormous temp order which has left her without any motivation to end this case after 2 1/2 yrs. I requested Mr. Sarkisian to make a motion for reconsideration but he wouldn't do it. I have since dad my new council make that motion and it was upheld as being unfair and unlawful. Mr. Sarkisian was only interested in his next receivable, resented my income level and reveled in my despair. There were multiple exchanges between us in which he insulted me. I can remember an instance in which there was something missing on my financial statement. I have never filled out a financial statement before and made a mistake on what was considered a marital asset. Mr. Sarkisan became outraged. He berated me for an hour and then when I received my invoice he billed me for it. A mistake he made but i got charged for it. We went back to court a second time to review the motion for temp orders and he guarnateed me that I would win the motion. We lost our motion and it cost me 6 hours of legal time at his hourly rate. He begged me to file contempt and when I did the judge didn't react, invoke or rule on any of the 32 contempt violations my wife perpetrated during my parenting time. He was only available between 9am-12am and at the time I believe I was his only active client. Mr.Sarkisian kept telling me, "you need to trust your lawyer" or he would say "I work for you, what do you want me to do." As I shopped around for a new lawyer, a pattern began to take shape. Every lawyer I interviewed, asked the same couple of questions: who was judge, who is your opposing council. When I asked if they knew/heard or had any experience with Mr. Sarkisian, the responses were either they never heard of him or they would'nt comment either way which I interpreted as a negative review. I interviewed three different attorneys who all offered the same opinion on Mr. Sarkisian. When you are interviewing for a lawyer, my advice would be to speak with as many divorced people to find out how satisfied they were with their representation. Most litigants will either endorse their adversaries as being more effective in the divorce proceedings. Divorce cases are decided based upon how ell the attorneys get along with each other. In my case, my wife's attorney had no respect for Mr. Sarkisian. He never responded to any of our request in discovery, never returned any phone calls and generally looked weak during court appearance