David L. Bindrup

We meet with David Bindrup in July 2017 at his Summerlin office to discuss a new family trust. He appeared very knowledgeable about the various trusts and how to design a trust to suit our needs. we told him needed to have our trust completed by the first week in September as we were taking an exte...nded trip overseas. Mr. Bindrup assured us that would not be a problem but we would have to go to his Henderson office (a 50 mile round trip for us) and any necessary changes to the trust could be made at the time of signing. Our appointment to sign was mid afternoon on the day prior to our trip departure, and we then had an appointment at the bank to transfer money into the name of the trust. Mr Bindrup wife, Katie Bindrup, was the attorney who was to go over our trust document. As we started through the trust document we noticed they had made the final successor trustee Mr. Bindrup and not the trust company we had asked for. Mrs Bindrup said she remembered seeing our email regarding that and she would change it. She left and after waiting an extended amount time she returned and said the email had been lost and could we give her the trust company's name. We wrote it down on a piece of paper and she took it back to change the documents. Again we waited an extended amount of time and we were becoming concerned we would miss our appointment at the bank. After Mrs Bindrup made that change we found There were several other errors and we had to wait while she changed them. The entire Bindrup law office operation made us feel as though we were dealing with a bunch of Keystone Kops! Mrs Bindrup kept telling us that usually changes (errors) are not made immediately but rather we would have been expected to return in a few weeks. However, this is not what Mr. Bindrup told us. Finally Mrs Bindrup gave us some documentation that she said we would need to set up the bank account and that our original trust documents would be ready for pick up when we returned home from our trip in 3 weeks. When went to receptionist to pay the final payment we handed her $1600 cash, and she spent five minutes looking for the receipt book. She finally came back and said the last receipt in the booklet had been used and then she just stood there and looked at me. I told her I wasn't going to give her cash without getting a receipt and she would need to write one out. She then handed me a sheet of paper (not on letterhead) she had written "received from ---------- $1600 for trust). I told her she needed to put a date and David Bindrup name on it and then she needed to sign it. Yes, this is a person working in a law office who was totally clueless about how to write a simple receipt!! When we got to Bank of America they refused to accept the documents Mrs Bindrup had given us. We then noticed that Mrs Bindrup had typed in the name of the Trust Company incorrectly (This is after she lost our email and then had us write the name down for her when we were in the office. I called Mr Bindrup's office immediately and Mrs Bindrup was gone even though it wasn't even 5pm. I asked to have her to call me as we needed to have it corrected before leaving town in the morning. She finally called me at around 9 pm that evening (she said she had to get her kids down for the night). She said she would correct the errors and email the corrected documents to us and we could sign/initial and mail them back to her and she would notarize them without us present. When we returned from our trip we called Mr Bindrup's office to pick up our trust. We were told it wasn't ready. 6 weeks after signing I demanded our trust. Mr Bindrup meet with us and he told me I was a difficult client and he turned to my husband and said, "I guarantee you will back in a year because you will be divorcing her." At this point my husband (married 18 years)I grabbed our trust documents and said another attorney will correct the additional errors we had found!