John Charles Vojta

I hired him to do my child support case, He stated it would be easy and he charged $1000.00 retainer. a couple of months later, he tells me the case is more complicated and hes going to need another $2000.00, He doesn't return phone calls. I called him for over a month and he wouldn't return my calls.... I asked his secretary, if he was still my lawyer or if i should get someone else to represent me ? After not returning my call for over a month, I get a letter saying he needs another $2000.00 retainer, then he called me saying he can file against my ex-wife to make her pay my legal fees. At this point, I had enough of his BS and I hired another attorney, who got the case resolved

John Vojta was a disappointment as a lawyer. He was all talk and no substance while employed by me. He charged more money for driving to court than he spent doing meaningful work for me. Yes he charges you for driving to court. This is buried in his contract he gets you to sign saying its just s...tandard agreement. Wish I got paid to drive to work. John makes verbal agreements he can always deny. He never puts things in writing so he can deny them later and leave no paper trail. He is more interested in schmoozing with other lawyers in the hallways of the court building than he was interested in discussing my case with me. I had to pay for his social time. He demanded I liquidate my assets to pay his retainer and when the assets were depleted.... he pushed to settle threatening exorbitant feesif we to go to trial. Try asking him what takes place at a divorce trial.... he never answered me and kept changing the subject. When John brings you in for a meeting he was always distracted by something... I had to pay him while he took personal phone calls and I even got charged for time waiting for my appointment as he was on the phone with another client. While John promised detailed billing invoices, he never delivered on this. Invoices were consistently delayed, cryptic and always worked out so the retainer was gone and more money was needed. When you questioned anything on the bill. he never replied. He has held up motions/settlements as hostage to extract more money requesting continuances till he would get more money. John promised me lots of things but never followed through. He will promise to file for fees for frivolous motions against you or negotiate for personal property but he never does. He didn't read documents provided by the opposing council. He would rather redraft things that are incorrect, incurring fees, but only if you catch the errors. Vojta is awful at documentation. You will get copies of orders and bills, but you never get any detail or copies of depositions or details from discovery. . This seems intentional so you have to keep going back to Vojta law for any records, he keeps them in his files and bills you again. Judgements prepared by his office are devoid of detail in key areas leaving you with many trips back to court to clean up the mess this creates as interpretation is constantly questioned by the vague documents. You may wonder why i kept him as my lawyer... I felt trapped as I was assured the divorce would be over in 1 more month which became months and months. I also didn't know any better and thought I could trust him. My costly mistake. He has since moved to Palatine on Northwest Hwy. This is the lawyer you want the other side to use.