John E. Witanen

John was my attorney for a divorce 5 years ago. I had never worked with an attorney and didn't know what to expect. My fairly simple divorce still ended up taking a full year. In part, due to stall tactics on the other end but partly because John was very slow about responding to even simple easy req...uests or revisions of the MSA or Parenting agreement. After I was already divorced, he continued to represent me (if you can call it that) in dealing with some child support issues. I would often have to correct his work as he was not careful about listening to my issues or the matters we were trying to fix. I would have to spend a lot of time going over facts we had already discussed again and again and I would always have to doublecheck his work as he rarely got the information correct the first time. This caused me to pay excess fees for his time back and forth with the other attorney even when he was at fault. Emails and calls went unreturned constantly. I foolishly stayed with him over the years because I thought there was some advantage in his knowing my history but I wish I would have searched for another attorney much sooner. I didn't feel that he cared about me or my situation and the lack of professionalism just got to be too much.