Bruce A. Coane

I recently hired Bruce Coane for a wrongful termination charge against my employer. My initial experience with him was lackluster - he seemed uninterested and even fell asleep during our consultation. Despite this, I followed his plan to overcome the motion to dismiss and moved forward with him as my... attorney. Unfortunately, communication soon cease from Bruce's office, and after 4 months of no progress I received an invoice for work that had supposedly been completed but hadn't actually done anything on my behalf. After much back-and-forth it was revealed that the associate attorney working on the case wasn't familiar with what had been billed to me or what discovery should have taken place in order for us to be successful in court (none of which had happened). In addition, Bruce requested off the case just before we needed to make a response for summary judgement - leaving me going into trial without proper depositions that were agreed upon previously by both parties. My experience overall with Bruce Coane has not been pleasant - he seems more concerned about charging as much money as possible than actually helping his clients succeed in their cases. His years of experience are irrelevant if he is not taking care of those who hire him and choosing instead to put their cases at risk through his negligence and lack of communication/interest in seeing them through properly. For this reason, I cannot recommend hiring Bruce Coane as a lawyer and would give him 1 out of 5 stars due to my negative experience working with him.

I hired Bruce Coane to file a VAWA(violence against women act) for me. I agreed to his fee of almost $8000. I paid $2000 down and $500/month for 3 months ($3500). He sat on my paperwork, when I called and asked when he was going to file my case with immigration, his assistant said he didn't know. ... He ducks and dodge you after he legally steals your money. I requested mediation with the Houston Bar Asso., but so far he has refused. He came highly recommended, but in the end, he sets you back sooo far, its hard to come back.