Michael Edward Damico

In my divorce case, my ex was negotiating in bad faith, running up my legal costs. I instructed Mike to cease all negotiations and work only on trial preparation. When we arrived for the trial date, I found that Mike had done no trial preparation and had continued to negotiate against my wishes, runn...ing up my bill. His actions harmed my case and ultimately delayed the settlement by many months. He also lied about the trial date, and when I arrived in court expecting a trial to begin, the judge told me that we were there for a settlement hearing and no trial date had been set. I fired Mike for cause, in front of the judge. according to New Jersey statute he should have refunded my retainer. Instead, he is demanding that I pay him thousands of dollars for the unauthorized work he claims he did, and is threatening to sue me. My experience with Mike is that he was a terrible counselor who was lazy, disorganized and not knowledgeable in either the details my case or the law. The settlement that he pushed me towards much less favorable than what I was able to negotiate as a pro-se litigant.

This firm is absolutely terrible, their communication is poor. I have been trying to speak to Michael for weeks now about unresolved issues with my divorce that he caused with a mistake by him. He promised it would be handled the same or next day. But here I am over 6 weeks later and have yet to be ...able to get a hold of him, despite numerous promises by his staff via phone and email that he would call me. His office promised to keep me in the loop on all communication with opposing counsel, but failed to do so. In my opinion, he is a very unethical attorney who over promises, under delivers, has terrible communication and charges a pretty penny to do so.