Paul Frederic Donsbach

Please do not use this attorney. He cost me my case and I'd hate to see him do this to others. Despite repeatedly telling me we would do trial prep, he never did. Even up to the day before the trial I was asking to do trial prep. He went into court completely unprepared. The judge ignored every singl...e one of his facts that he failed to establish. He forgot to submit the deposition before court. He tried to impeach the witness and the judge looked at him dumbfounded as she cannot impeach the witness if there is no deposition. He still charged me for the deposition. No only was the deposition worthless, it actually prepared my ex for trial. He kept advising me that the judgment could be appealed. However, it cannot. Every lawyer knows it cannot be appealed if there is no court reporter. He might have been a good lawyer once but now he just appears not to care. I think he writes fantasy novels now so he might be leaving his lawyer career behind. He didn't show up for some meetings. He left early at others. For the ones he did attend he didn't bother to listen. He needs to be disbarred immediately before he destroys other people that trust and count on him.

I hired Attorney Paul on 10/16/2018. I chose him because Paul has 5* on yelp reviews. I asked if he can represent me to win on a spousal support trial in March 2019. He assured me that he was competent and had the bandwidth to take on my case. He took my case and passed my case to his associate, Mr... Barry Witt. Barry is nice but not aggressive. Barry went to court for one of my hearing. We lost. The Judge sanctioned me $15,000. I pressed my concern to Paul. Paul said Barry continued to prepare my case and Paul will go to Court for hearing. As my big trial date approached, I was panicked because Paul did not prepare anything on my case yet. He then assured me that he has 20 years experience he will take good care of my case. I provided Paul with my critical information that he would need to address the issues in my case with the judge. We went into Court and were eviscerated by the Judge. The Judge asked if Paul reviewed my previous hearing, He replied to the judge he did not. We lost on nearly every issue. And Judge sanctioned me another $15,000. It was clear that Paul was totally unprepared for the hearing, and I paid the price. This cost me many thousands of dollars. As we left the courtroom after the hearing, his only comment was “we lost”. After the hearing, he had an important action to address with opposing counsel. He promised to do in the court lobby, then never did it. I met with Barry in his office, Barry promised to correct it but he never did either. I called, emailed Paul many times requested them to work on my case, I got no response back. 10days later, Barry finally replied to email. He said that they monitor my case. I need lawyers to work on my case, not monitor my case. They did not work on my case at all for 29 days. My new lawyer tried to fix this issue with opposing counsel, we were told it was too late. I had to pay too much for this action. I honestly don’t know if Paul is a great lawyer or not. But I do know that if you don’t prepare, you won’t be successful in Court.