Dittrich Law Firm, P.A. - Saint Paul, MN

As a client, it is your attorney’s judicial responsibility to advocate for your interest. In my case, Mr. Dittrich would rather advocate and preserve the interest of the opposing counsel while also trying to sabotage my relationship with my stakeholders. He is the most expensive attorney I have ever retained in my years of legal battle yet the most inefficient and ineffective. Here are my reasons: His processes are not lean; he spends more time talking on the phone and racking up attorney fees rather than documenting. His processes are just so archaic. This is 2022 for goodness sake. He seems to have a cold feet especially when it’s close to the trial date and will look for every reason for you to settle even if his client has the upper hand. He’s always looking for a way out of court even when he is well aware that this is a high conflict case; making endless phone calls.The moment you indicate you intend to resolve you matter in court , he stopped listening and started doing things against my wishes and in his own way. This is include but not limited to: Drafting a proposed order and sending it to the court without my approval as agreed upon. I only got to find out when I received my billing statement. Despite a direct instruction from the judge, and after several emails and phone calls to his office, it took him a month to draft a proposed order and ended up going with the opposing counsel’s suggestions against mine which is basically at my expense and detriment. All he could have done was to adopt the format of the last order from the court and just modify it by including just one more line. Instead, he created an epistle of line which included so many back and forth, another crafty way for him to rack up legal fees. His legal assistant lacks the courtesy of emailing or acknowledging emails when Mr. Dittrich is out of office. Refusing to adhere to the request of judge because he was ill prepared for my case and it appears he doesn’t want to go back in front of the same judge because of his incompetence. Instead, he started pressuring me to voluntarily dismiss my case after his office had charged ridiculous amounts in legal fees. A day before my trial, Mr. Dittrich initiated and eventually succeeded in postponing my trial date because he doesn’t have a particular report. Not only does he now has this particular report, he has two favorable ones to work with, yet he is pressuring me to go for dismissal after several resources, time and money has been spent on preparing for the trial and his reasons are just so lame. He claims he doesn’t want the opposing counsel to attack me. I thought for a second if I have a representation because that’s not a valid reason for anyone to dismiss their case. I thought my counsel was supposed to defend me. When you call, they ignore your calls, it takes calling with an unrecognized phone number to get hold of him or his legal assistant. A one page amended order take Mr Dittrich a month to draft even after several reminder.; a proposed order that could have taken less than 5mins to draft. Mr Dittrich lied to me that his legal assistant has drafted it and it’s in a pile somewhere. When i finally got hold of his legal assistant, she declined ever drafting the order and informed me that Mr. Dittrich has been out of office sick since a particular date eventhough i still spoke with him that very day his legal assistant stated he was out of the office. What a disconnect in communication! I decided to separate my case due to his nonchalant attitude and I can tell you, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. He is a one man show without any back-up strategy. If he is out of the office or sick, everything stops and God help you if you have an upcoming trial! He creates an atmosphere to make it look like you are difficult to work with eventhough he refuses to advocate for his client’s needs.