John Anton Sterbick

I want to take this opportunity to both thank John Sterbick for the excellent legal advice and services he provided me throughout the long process of fighting with the IRS. They were charging me a lot of money simply because they did not agree or want to allow home-based real estate broker business ...expenses. Through his understanding and years of legal representation on tax issues, he was able to negotiate the amount I would owe by reducing that amount by 90%. He saved me thousands of dollars. Additionally, I want to take note that his fees were extremely reasonable. Based on standard area legal fees, I saved several thousands of dollars. John’s office is not the typical office you would expect with someone of his years of experience. You will not find flashy columns adorning a white concrete or brick building. You see a modest building that houses a reasonable accommodation for himself, other lawyers, and their staff. Yet, he produces results. Besides his tax practice, he also provides services in bankruptcy and personal injury. I would highly recommend him and his staff to work on any of these legal issues. I know the representation will be professional, competent, honest, and render the best possible results. If you have the IRS on your tail, injured, or facing enormous financial liabilities, give John a call. You will be glad you did. I have over 30 years of legal experience myself, I have worked with and personally known thousands of lawyers. You will not find a better person to represent you than John Sterbick.

Filing a chapter 7 was a difficult decision for me. After meeting with Lorelei and John some of my anxiety was eased. They explained the entire process to me and I decided to file. My case was a little difficult because of my income, however, they made no false promises but assured me that they woul...d work hard for me. John and Lorelei were amazing throughout the entire process. I had tons of questions but they were patient and worked me through each step of the filing. Both were professional and personable. I highly recommend Sterbick and Associates.

I felt I had the support of a whole team behind me while working with John Sterbicks office. First of all they are kind and calm, two qualties that I much apreciated while going through a rough time in my life. Bankruptcy is not something that I looked forward to, but John Sterbick and team informe...d me of my options and got me through the process with the best possible results. John Sterbick and team are Reliable, Knowledgable and Thorough.

Don't let the smile full you. John Sterbic charged me $1500 for writing a letter to the IRS. When I asked for refund, he said that he will not give it to me. He charges $395 an hour. He charged me $1500 an hour. I feel cheated. The Universal Law of Justice will punish him. He will have to face the co...nsequences with the Karmic Law. I don't know how he can sleep at night. Please find a lawyer that is honest instead of this one. I already reported him to the Better Business Bureau. They asked me if I am willing to make a report to a press and I said that I will.

We hired Sterbick to handle a WA State DOR audit. We had many issues during the short time he was involved--which was midway through the audit. During the few months he was involved, Sterbick did not have a single meeting with us outside of the quick free consultation (which he later claims as a ch...arged item) where we paid him a flat fee of $2,000. He did not request or possess any of our business records. Instead we were responsible for gathering, pulling, scanning, copying hundreds of documents and provided it to him and/or the auditor directly. This should have been done by his office--we did pay them to do this work, but it all fell on our shoulders. John failed to provide the auditor documents at the one meeting he had with the auditor. We realized later and emailed them over to auditor. John failed to meet a deadline to submit documentation to DOR--despite the fact we had provided the info and docs over a week prior. I called and emailed to remind him--and finally he sent an email on deadline day stating he had met the deadline. We discovered later this was a lie. He did not and the auditor confirmed this. In fact, the auditor sent over a timeline of communication and also stated he had never received any documents by email at all from Sterbick. There was 1 fax the auditor received--it was duplicate info Sterbick had failed to give him at a previous meeting that I had already provided to the auditor by email. Sterbick also told the auditor false information that could have resulted in an IRS audit of our company if we had not caught it and cleared it up. Sterbick deleted pertinent questions the auditor had asked before forwarding an email to us--we saw no reason for this at all and it caused great confusion in the audit. Basically, Sterbick failed to do anything at all to represent us in this audit. We terminated our relationship, revoked the CTIA so he could no longer communicate with the auditor and requested a refund of $2,000. He asked why and we told him...these reasons and much more. I have all documentation to support my review and statements. Sterbick, to date, has refused to refund a single penny. We had hoped to hire another atty, but because Sterbick won't refund the money we couldn't. We continued handling the audit ourselves--which is what we were doing anyhow when Sterbick was involved--and we were able to bring it to a successful and satisfactory end. We would never refer anyone to this attorney. We were very displeased with his knowledge of the laws regarding the construction industry, a complete failure and lack of representation and the fact he demanded we do all the work that he was paid to do. We will be contacting the WA State Bar as well. If you need documentation supporting my comments, please contact me. I have it in print.