Deborah Jean Tomich

DO NOT HIRE!!! Horrible communication and terrible customer service. I hired Ms Tomich as a divorce attorney because I met her a few times previously as the spouse of a close co-worker. Details: 11/24/15; my spouse filed a petition for dissolution of marriage. 12/9/15; I hired Ms Tomich for ...legal representation and paid a $2,600 retainer fee. Following this, I was not contacted by her nor her staff for over 3 weeks. 1/5/16; I called Ms Tomich’s office for a status update following my retainer payment and was then informed she was involved in a labor intensive trial and requested an extension regarding my case. Subsequent to this date, not once did Ms Tomich nor her staff contact me with any information nor updates regarding my case, thus I made calls on 1/21, 2/10, 2/23, and 2/25 to request information and updates. I provided Ms Tomich with Income & Expense information compiled on another attorney's template, but was informed by Ms Tomich's office this was unacceptable and I needed to resubmit the same information using Ms Tomich's form. March 2016, Ms Tomich drafted a Marital Settlement Agreement and following my review submitted it to opposing counsel. 4/28/16; I received an email from Ms Tomich noting the date of the first settlement conference. No further information, such as explanation of the process nor how to prepare was provided. 6/3/16; The 1st settlement conference occurred. 6/17/16; I sent Ms Tomich a follow-up email requesting a response to an email I had previously sent on 6/15 questioning when a statement of assets had been delivered to opposing counsel. 7/14/16; I was informed the 2nd settlement conference was postponed (by an unidentified party), to be rescheduled for a later date. 8/12/16; A 2nd settlement conference occurred. 9/8/16; Opposing counsel stated they had not received documents I provided Ms Tomich. Opposing counsel also requested a meeting to discuss the case. Ms Tomich failed to schedule a meeting/conference to discuss division of marital assets, despite the request by her client and opposing counsel for such a meeting/conference call. 9/9/16 Ms Tomich requested my position regarding division of real estate/home equity, even though I had already expressed it previously, and it was documented in the MSA. 10/25/16; The day prior to the trial date, Ms Tomich sent me an email stating I did not need to attend. I replied that I planned to attend anyway because I wanted to know the status of the case and what was preventing progress. 10/26/16, On the trial date, discussion of contributions to pre-marital property continued with opposing counsel and with Ms Tomich. I addressed contributions to pre-marital assets multiple times dating back to June. Further, Ms Tomich was unprepared for the discussion by not having a copy of the summary of assets provided by her client. Following the trial date, I did not receive contact from Ms Tomich regarding the outcome. I called 6 days later to learn the outcome. I was told by Ms Tomich’s assistant that the case was dismissed. In summary, after 11 months and over $6,400 of attorney fees (32 billable hours), the only value Ms Tomich provided was a draft MSA. This is unacceptable in a dissolution case involving only assets and no children.