Melissa C. Mihok

I have never in my life ever written a review about a lawyer. I intend to file a bar complaint about Melissa Mihok. I have never been more stressed out in my entire life and disgusted with the behavior of someone I trusted to take care of me. DO NOT, ever ever hire Melissa to manage anything legal fo...r you unless you're willing to lose everything because that is exactly how it feels to hire Melissa Mihok. I could not believe the lack of professionalism she exhibts. At one point I actually wondered if she was truly was licensed to practice. My legal care has been severely neglected, and she has actually jeopardized my case. What a complete and utter nightmare. I cannot wait to be done and over with on my case, I cannot stress enough - DO NOT HIRE MELISSA, DON'T DO IT. IT IS NOT WORTH THE ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE OF WORKING WITH HER.

I have never written a review for anything in my life. But my experience with Ms. Mihok was a complete nightmare. There's too much to list. I was sent the wrong zoom link to a deposition that I did not know I could attend, and she then spoke to me on zoom in front of the opposing counsel while I ...did not know what was happening. She put mistakes in my initial filing and did not tell me about specific areas of the law that were fatal to my case that had she informed me I could have mitigated. Often, she would say things after the fact when nothing could be done. She missed my deposition due to being in the hospital (not blaming her for medical problems, but it was an added level of stress) in which I hired a co-counsel for assistance. When meeting with the co-counsel, Mihok missed conference calls due to "losing her glasses," and set a "reminder" for Summary Judgment that was a week past the Summary Judgment deadline. She waited till the last minute to start her response and filed it with, and I'm not kidding, 20 seconds left till the deadline. The co-counsel tried to reach her weeks prior to get on the same page, to no avail. Eventually what was submitted left tons of corrections in the margins and which the judge stated, "nearly every response is a puzzle." I would not be writing this if it was just one or two mistakes. Mihok sent records requests in which the dates were incorrect, further taking more time to get the records, and did not even start discovery for 8 months knowing that we were going up against a well-financed and ethically questionable defendant who was not going to make anything easy. This left us no time to compel for records that were withheld from us, no tell to finish depositions, and no time to hold anyone in contempt. To make things easier, at one point I typed the records request myself so that all she had to do was send it, which she also forgot to do and then cost me around $10,000 to do outside of the lawsuit as a public records request. I had some good conversations with her and liked her as a person, which is what led me to continue on with her as my attorney, but her words never followed through to action and the mistakes compounded and get progressively worse. I specifically wanted a bulldog of an attorney and what I got was the complete opposite. She had a few good moments in depositions, but even then she forgot to order or cite the good moments that she did have. This was my first time ever suing anyone and the stress that she gave me far exceeded any other stress of the case. I'm not sure I ever had a fair chance to win my case, but Mihok made it that much easier for them to steamroll me. She might be a good person if she's not your attorney, but I strongly warn to not hire this attorney.

This attorney was difficult to reach and, although contracted by my union in September, did not begin working on the case with me until months later. I had to enlist the help of a union representative to get her to respond. She seemed to follow a template-style procedure and did not seem to consider... the matters in my individual case.

Melissa Mihok recently represented me in a legal matter.She immediately put me at ease, answered all of my questions and was always available for me. One of the things I'm most happy about is Melissa Mihok responds to my text messages and emails timely. She is always prepared for hearings, depo's a...nd the unexpected. She will always be my "go to"attorney in any future legal matters. Melissa Mihok will give you 150% of everything she has as your attorney.

After having several consultations and being told sorry unfortunately we cant take your case. I was forced to be my own lawyer. This is how the system is set up to make the employee loose. After almost a year of working my case, I went searching again for an attorney. I met with Melissa and she took ...my case. I could not believe I had heard her correctly. That day in her office gave me hope to fight my employers with their round the clock attorneys. Melissa has been very professional in providing and guiding me on how to approach all the phases thus far in my case. She responds quickly when I call or email any questions or concerns. There is also a website Melissa provided that I access with my user name and password which allows me to review everything that has happened in my case to include documents, phone calls and billing invoivces. This site also allows me to communicate wirh Melissa and her legal asssistant and is secure enough to also pay any fees that are charged monthly. Melissa is very reasonable with her fees and breaks down on my monthy invoice item by item what she did, how much time spend and the total cost for each item. With this I am always abreast of what she has done on my case and how much I will owe. This makes me comfortable and allows me to trust her with my case and monies spent. If it were not for Melissa, I would have given up on my case a long time ago. I am grateful she decided to take a chance with my case. With her knowledge, skills and professionalism, I am confident she is fighting for me to win my case.