Jacob A. Sonneborn

I hired Jacob based on a recommendation from a friend to help me in a divorce turned dissolution. He is very charismatic and expensive. While I believe that he is good attorney, he did not take care of my case as could be expected from an attorney that is charging an absolute premium for his time. ... The reasons for my bad review are as follows: - He missed multiple phone meetings - He talked me into a settlement conference from which he later wrote " We should NOT have agreed to mediation – I feel responsible for that decision. It put you on a slippery path to an agreement that is probably far beyond what a court would have ordered at trial." - He had to ask me what was agreed in the mediation, because his notes were lacking. - During the court hearing, he almost was dismissed by the judge. - The QDRO he drafted got rejected, and he left me cleaning it up with the other attorney. - He promised me a substantial brake on my bill, but only came up with a small one. What should have been a simple dissolution turned into a 1.5 year nightmare. I like Jacob as a person, but the performance on my case was sub-par. As reflected by the positive reviews, I think that it would have been different if he would have had the time to properly prepare.