Jacob N. Sommer

WORST LAWYER! Negative 5 Stars! Never got back to me (dozens of phone calls and voicemails left with the secretary and in the inbox) about my case for a month even whether or not he had even reviewed before pretrial. Was quick to take the $200 consultation fee upfront. I asked for a refund over a... month later on email and he still couldn’t reply. Very unprofessional and wouldn’t want anyone wasting their time or money.

Attorney Jacob Sommer is a poor excuse for a human being, let alone an attorney. Jacob Sommer was appointed by the Court as the public defender for my grandson who was in custody on a minor assault charge. My grandson thought he needed an attorney so he asked for one and did not plead to the charge.... Had he pled, he probably would have gotten out on and OR or only served a couple of days. It has been almost three weeks that he has been in custody because Jacob Sommer has done nothing. He has not even met with him. I have left him at least five message a day for the last two weeks. He does not even have the common decency to return my call. He obviously has the Court appoint him clients because he is worthless and cannot obtain clients on his own merit. STAY AWAY FROM HIM.

Mr. Sommer was court appointed as public defender in 2012 case. He immediately insisted that I agree to a plea arrangement which would have meant, at that point, pleading guilty to something I had not done. Over the next 6-7 weeks he failed to contact any of the people on my witness list as supplie...d to him...names and phone numbers. The DA's office continued to make plea arrangement offers with each offer dropping more of the charges. Mr. Sommer was provided with both photo and documentary information to proceed with a reasonable defense and failed to followup on any of it. I was forced into a plea arrangement of "no contest" to 5 counts will all other (29 counts) dropped when it became clear that there was to be no possibility of a fair trial. I was waiting to sign into do jail time when he came downstairs from the district court and saw me sitting in the jail lobby...he stopped and asked how I was doing. In the ensuing conversation he made the comment "You know you were set up and railroaded, right?" When I suggested that it was his job as a defense attorney to prevent that or show it had happened, his response was that he had done the best he could. When I later had life threatening health issues and a letter from doctors recommending suspension of the balance (80 hours) of community service he and the Justice of the Peace and the DA responded (according to him) that they could not do this BUT I could leave the state without finishing the community service time and the court would issue an "in state only" fugitive warrant....meaning I could not come back to NV (assuming I left) without risking being arrested for not completing the community service time. I declined this "offer" and completed the time against my doctors' recommendations. This attorney immediately withdrew from the case.

This attorney was appointed to represent my son who is incarcerated in Nevada, on about 09-06-2012. He has promised to visit my son and go over strategy. Mr. Sommer has not visited or written and now does not answer his phone when my son calls. He does not respond to my voice mails when I leave a mes...sage or any e-mail I send him. The one filing that he made for my son was done wrong and at this writing he is under sanction and assets a $500.00 fine until he corrects his filing in 10 days. There are too many other things to add here that have crated issues. All I wish to do is talk to him and work out some issues, however if he won't respond to me or my son then other avenues on my part need to be taken. Thank you