Four years after a half-dozen women leveled sexual harassment allegations against prominent San Diego lawyer John Gomez, the founder of Gomez Trial Attorneys is the subject of new lawsuit alleging he abused his client. The case, Jane Doe v. Gomez, was filed earlier this month in San Diego Superior C ourt by an unnamed woman acting as her own lawyer. It accuses the former federal prosecutor of legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress by, among other things, repeatedly offering to send the woman naked pictures of himself. “Gomez did not actually work to advance my medical-malpractice lawsuit, as we had agreed on when I retained him as my lawyer, but instead abused the attorney-client relationship in an attempt to seduce me,” the lawsuit says. Gomez denied the allegations and said the plaintiff was never a formal client. He said the woman was mentally unstable and seeking to benefit financially by raising false accusations. “The truth is that she essentially stalked Mr. Gomez by pretending to seek his legal help regarding multiple so-called matters,” Gomez Trial Attorneys said in a statement. “Once Mr. Gomez caught on to her plot, he proactively stopped communicating with her.” The plaintiff is not named in court papers. But the lawsuit accuses Gomez of repeatedly offering to send naked pictures of himself to the plaintiff, who had contacted him last summer about representing her in a medical malpractice dispute. “I was scared to terminate Gomez because I thought I needed his law firm’s assistance with my case,” the complaint alleges. “However, it turned out that Gomez never actually moved my case forward.” The lawsuit was filed four years after a series of sexual-harassment and other allegations against Gomez burst into public view. In July 2021, several San Diego Superior Court judges received unsigned packets of letters and accusations from up to six women accusing Gomez of unwanted touching, making improper sexual comments and other inappropriate behavior. Gomez denied the allegations at the time and said they were organized by rival attorneys seeking to undermine his firm. Two-plus years later, Gomez filed a sprawling lawsuit against Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, accusing the lawyers group of perpetuating accusations that he serially sexually harassed women. Gomez withdrew that complaint several months later. The latest case, assigned to Judge Richard Whitney, seeks a jury trial. The defendants have not responded to the claim in court, but a case management conference has been scheduled for September. ...read more read less