Michael Ernest Chionopoulos

A real piece of work. Took my case on Friday but did not remember me on Monday. Too busy showing my wife and I his Pearl Handled gun. He handed it off to a woman and when we went to court after 3 months, she was un prepared and the magistrate dismissed the case, and I’m out3K. He says not my fa...ult. I hope he goes down with his boat

Prior to hiring Mike he was super “nice” I guess you could say. I didn’t like that he “kept calling me “bro,” but perhaps that’s what he does to try to lure people. But after he took my $5,000 his demeanor changed immediately. I had sent a lengthy email detailing everything and he didn’t like it. We ...got into a conversation and he told me to send him everything in detail, which I had just done. I was like “Mike, I sent you everything I know!” Then he began to yell and curse at me. I couldn’t believe it, having paid that money to get screamed and yelled at. What a slap in the face. I was completely humiliated. $5,000 and he couldn’t just read the email and take notes then move ahead accordingly. That says to me that he just did not want to take the time to read it to fully understand the situation. I’m beyond humiliated, beyond appalled that someone would take $5,000 to treat me that way. There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of behavior. Seek council elsewhere.

My divorce case is legendary. He awarded my ex-wife about $17,000 a month knowing full well I didnt make half that. They threaten me with jail time on three separate occasions for being more than five days late on my many thousands of dollars of temporary support. worst and most unforgivable he singl...e-handedly destroyed my relationship with three beautiful little girls that were my daughters. 15 years later I have almost no contact although they seem to be doing OK. My case went to the Supreme Court and I won. But some costs are simply not recoverable. Every couple of years I look him up just to see if he's dead. I've never written anything about him before.

Too bad we can't give negative stars, or a brown, twisty emoji to represent this lawyer's poor representation. Chionopoulos focused on making money off a divorce rather than the safety and well being of children who are being abused by a parent. He completely disregarding constant pleas to involve... a guardian-ad-litem for the children and soaked up what meager funds we'd escaped with. He then dropped us on our heads, with no representation to guide us through a critical situation. Prior to his last court appearance on my behalf, I spent two hours in his office hearing him yell at people about his boat in the other office. He spent maybe 10-15 minutes in the room preparing for proceedings before it was time to leave for court, and that was spent eating lunch, and staying attuned to his texts, and running off again to take a call about his boat. During the proceedings, he was on his cell phone texting, regarding his boat. At one point, the Judge had to call out to him three times, and I had to elbow him in the arm to get him to respond. Our abuser found that entirely entertaining, which he continues to share with our children to this day. We are three years into this now, just beginning to have hope we can finally properly represent the truth. Chionopoulos just went off into the sunset on his big boat...