Michael John Kretzmer

I hired this attorney 2 months ago at the recommendation of my family law attorney as he claimed Kretzmer had dependency court experience. This attorney took $10,000 from me and did next to nothing for me. I had to fire him within days of my trial because he had not even subpoenaed any of my witness...es for the trial and simply asked me to call them and ask if they would come. This attorney also told me I had to figure out all of my exhibits by myself, which I did, and felt like I was in the dark the whole time with my questions on how to figure out what the exhibits should be since he never responded to any of my texts asking for his advice on what to use as my exhibits. During the time he was in dependency court for me (twice) he steadily charged me while working on other cases the entire 8-9 hours we were there at $500/hour. I've been trying to get a response from him for 3 weeks in a row regarding the refund of what's left of my $10,000 retainer. I received one reply immediately after I fired him where he states he'll get me an invoice and that I probably owe him more money. my experience with this attorney is that he simply doesn't care about you or your case and will expect you to do most of the legwork on your own. I'm grateful the judge allowed for a continuance of my case so that my new attorney can pick up the pieces I was able to fragment together and lead me in the right direction now.