David Eugene Dean

David has helped my family in so many ways, through guardianship proceedings, to handling both of my parents estates after they passed. He was able to assist me with every aspect and always provided sound advise as it related to not only the handling of the estate but also my parents home when it nee...ded to be sold between my me and my siblings. I would highly recommend Mr. Dean!

I hired David Dean as my estate attorney when my dad passed. He was very careless and neglectful in regard to even the basics of informing my brothers that I was the administrator. He did not ask my brother if there was a will or trust! He did not follow the basic steps during my LOA and was very slo...w in every step that was involved. He wasn’t even aware that the notice to creditors was published and I had to tell him it had been running for a month. He spelled my name incorrectly the entire year almost and even had the wrong street address on my legal documents. He always said he was so busy, but was supposed to be the “best” in litigation. After making the mistakes, a hearing was to occur to determine if my LOA could be revoked! He never handled my case with any type of expertise and was always “behind” the other attorney. I paid him in full every month and when he realized how much he had messed up, he dropped me as a client!!! Of course, I had just paid everything in full. Terrible experience during a time of grieving and sadness.

I wish I'd known everything I do now when I hired this firm. They are likely very good at estate planning. That's quite different from Trust litigation. This review is not personal but based solely on performance. Personally, they can be nice, that is until I stuck to my guns that their performance ...was lacking. Then Mr. Brady was quite rude. Unfortunately, Mr. Brady sold the firm to me as having strong Trustee removal litigation experience. I definitely do not believe that to be true now. Mr. Brady met with me, made strong promises and then handed my case off to a much less experienced attorney, Mr. Dean, who wasn't even in our meeting. However, I was charged experienced-attorney rates for his sub-par performance. Communication, case management, strategy and knowledge of Trust law were all ongoing issues. I expressed concern at various junctures. When I requested a different attorney and demanded a meeting with Mr. Brady, he met with me but ignored my request and brought Mr. Dean assuring me he could handle the case, then charged me for their time to meet. I should have fired them then, but I very much wanted to believe they would step up and come through for me. Mr. Brady is a smooth talker and good salesman. The case and the fees drug on well over a year! I had to push hard for a court date. As the court date drew near it grew more apparent that Mr. Dean was not experienced. My case was complex and he did not demonstrate a knowledge of Trust law, nor my specific Trust document, which was a huge detriment to my case. I ended up doing consults with other well-known attorneys in Trust litigation (on the TOP attorneys list) and they "weren't aware" that the firm had the needed expertise IE they don't come up against them in court often. One knew Mr. Dean and described him as inexperienced as well. But they did not have the time to take my case especially with court impending. We did end up going to court and it was painful. Mr. Dean's representation was sorely lacking. He is not a strong litigator nor orator. He was also late and unorganized. He never objected to anything while the well-known OP ran circles around him and slandered me profusely. At one point he apologized to the court for the long period of silence because he couldn't figure out what he wanted to say, just shuffled his stack of papers. My overall assessment is that this firm's practices are unethical because they represented that they have strong experience in the area I needed, but used me to cut a young attorney's teeth in a growing and very lucrative area of law. Under no circumstances would I hire them again. In my research into them after being unhappy, I came across others who agreed with this assessment. I should also note that in the end the Trustee resigned and Brady Cobin now touts this as them getting a good outcome for me. That is laughable. The trustee resigned because he broke the law on something else altogether and was indicted for it and his criminal attorney instructed him to resign. UPDATE: because the Trustee was still allowed to choose the successor Trustee, they attempted to place it with a friend in order to still control it. That successor declined, so the entire case was a waste. I've had to re-start litigation over. DO NOT HIRE BRADY COBIN. Especially not Mr. Brady, who is not honest, or Mr. Dean who is not competent.