David N. Johnson

As a divorce lawyer he gave me a whole new perspective. Tailored my bill according how much income I made and the assets I owned The lawyer bill was way beyond the initial estimate. How about more than 3 times a high figure for hiring a divorce attorney!!! ....... plus I had to pay for most of my ex’...s lawyer bill! Which he was in agreement for that! The whole time I had him hired, he always acted like it was his first job. It seemed a lot of fumbling around. Then for alimony payment, he uses a formula....years married, your income and ex-spouse income. This formula is something he (part of a advisory/steering team) came up with that is unrealistic and unfair to me the client. Stuck to his rule of thumb even though other places in Kansas that I showed him don’t adhere to it. And even though it seemed excessive to him, he still stuck with it. I had to ask him several times if he was playing for the other team. Seem to always play along with the opposing lawyer.... never shooting their ideas down like I had ask. He uses antiquated office programs and slow equipment which takes more time, which is to his benefit. He did not know what an Excel spread sheet was or how it worked. He wouldn’t work with mine. He was amazed at how the opposing lawyer could come up with optional sets of figures so quickly......I never told him how they did it. Often he was totally forgetful on what we did the last time we met......Then several times he didn’t do what we had agreed upon. One time costing me thousands in the end because he gave the opposing team the wrong figures. Hard to retract that once that’s done! My ex and I did not have disagreements about property division and we didn’t worry about the small stuff but both lawyers tried to get us to fight and argue. They kept bringing it up until I told my lawyer to stop. Lots of emails he charged me for (not cheap) were numerous and frivolous. But I left them go just to avoid argument. He did put on a good show in court at trial.... but that’s all it was....a show. I could see the judge getting bored with the nonsense. In the end he tried to make me feel like I came ahead. I think I would have been just as well off without any lawyer. I’m still paying the high price of his service even though I paid his bill! It became apparent he had worked with the opposing lawyer before and wanted to work with her instead work for me. Kinda bad when the ex agreed that my lawyer took advantage of me!