David Leon Mann

He scams clients into paying his niece Michelle cash and no paper trail. His nephew James he claims is also his money man and paralegal. They try to not give you receipts. I know myself and others haven’t been given receipts but they will not let you use a debit/credit card. They push for cash or zel...le into Michelle’s account. He has no real office. He uses his nieces address for his office. He brags about his money and how he says he’s retired but then tells other clients he’s opening a new place in Henderson. He will take your money and you think you retained a lawyer (paid a lawyer to represent you) and then claim it’s for the paralegal and tell the judge he’s just pro Bono, which makes it hard to get your lawyer fees paid by other party. He’s not knowledgeable and shouldn’t be able to be a attorney. So many things he says is not true after talking to other lawyers. I don’t know if he’s on drugs or what is wrong with him but it’s alarming. He also raises his voice at women and very unprofessional and threatening. I’m not surprised he got sued once before and lost his license.

I came to David Mann for a consultation, After being a victim of domestic violence, my then husband was in custody for it, but set to be released & I needed to know my options. I was a stay home mom, for most of our 12 year marriage, I had no access to the money, and we had an 8 year old child. Dav...id Mann Was very confident, very empathetic, and very dedicated to women in my position. He was very forceful and insistant that steps must be done immediately. To protect my interests, and secure the marital assets before my ex is released, and has the chance To hide it. I had no idea what any of it meant but I did know I needed help. I had 4 homes, 4 cars, 2 bank accounts, and a husband due out of jail who would be very angry, and was the only one with access to all of it other than the house I lived in and the car I drove. so I hired David Mann, and left that day feeling like I had an angel on my side. I was told to bring $1150.00 the next day, and papers would be filed to freeze all assets. I had 24 hours to produce money I didn't have, but I borrowed all I could, pawned my wedding ring, and the next day, I began the worst mistake of my life. FIRST, I signed divorce papers that were to file same day but actually don't file for 47 days, which as it turned out, mattered ALOT. Also that next day, my ex was released from jail, the very first thing he did, was come to my home, escorted by police, allowed to get some things ( clothes ) is what I was told, but instead, he took all our files from the desk, all the scan disks ( which matter later ) filled 2 trucks with bedroom stuff, emptied a garage full of tools, car equip, Took cables and fuses and etc off cars in garage, and finally, with me inside the home, he took my vehicle from the driveway as he left. So ultimately, out of 4, that 1st day, meant I had no working vehicle at all. At 6:00 pm that evening, my power, water, gas, and phone all went off. When I called the companies, I was told, he removed me from the accounts and shut them off. Following day, he files emergency custody papers with our TPO judge, stating He wants full custody due to my inability to care, provide, protect and meet the need of our child. He also states I can not even transport the child to school but he can. I called David Mann in a panic, I get " his mother / receptionist " who tells me David is gone, I say it's an emergency I have no power, gas water I NEED HIM TO DO SOMETHING. She hangs up on me, which happens often as time goes on. When David does FINALLY RETURN MY CALL, he's rude, dismissive, and not that confident, empathetic, blah blah, that I hired, I told him my ex filed for custody, He says he's gotta call me back, when I begin Screaming, I HAVE NO UTILILITIES DAVID WHAT DO I DO, he says hold on, his mother comes on and says, David said to come in immediately....... he needs $1150.00 and he'll fix it all. I said I just gave you $1150.00, she said, yeah, that was for filing, this is for starting your case. As I sit in a dark home with no options, I pawn more things, get there, give $1150.00 and wait for everything to be fine. I sat 2 hours, they took my money, they did nothing. And I had to bring my child, to a house with no utilities, and the only FIX that came, was a friend who rented me a hotel room. As much horror that I can describe in the coming months, I'll simplify for Speed. I PAID DAVID MANN OVER $11,000 In 4 MONTHS, in $1150.00 chunks, NO MATTER WHAT WENT ON, THE ONLY WAY I SPOKE TO HIM WAS GOING THRU THE RUDE MOTHER RECEPTIONIST, ONLY TO BE TOLD COME TO THE OFFICE BRING $1150.00. ANY DAMN QUESTION I HAD, IT WAS $1150.00 COME TO OFFICE. NOT ONE THING WAS FIXED, NOT ONE MOTION BENEFITED ME. DAVID MANN, AS I LATER LEARNED, FAILED TO FILE THE MOST CRUCIAL MOTION OF THE WHOLE DIVORCE ( which ultimately lasted 4 long years ) AND THAT WAS THE ASSET FREEZE. I HAD NO ACCESS TO ONE PENNY OF OUR MONEY MY ENTIRE DIVORCE BECAUSE OF HIM.MY EX, HAD ALL ACCESS ALL BY HIMSELF

I used David for an issue with my ex husband. The staff was so unprofessional and never seem to know what is going on. David himself seems very kind and knowledgeable he did win my case. My huge problem I had with his services is they stole $700 from me! After my initial hearing he told me it would b...e $3500.... little did I know it was immediately up front!!! I can't calls from his nephew James as if he was a used car saleman. James told me if I didn't pay right away that they had to drop my case! I offered payments and that was no acceptable to him. I had to take out a loan on my car to pay a $700 deposit for our trial... paying for services was not the issue. The issue with this situation was my ex and I decided to settle out of court... they refused to refund my money on Monday 1 business day after paying my deposit. I paid Friday afternoon before they closed... I called for refund Monday morning. I also spoke to David during the weekend to let him know we were settling and no longer going to trial. I had agreed for them to do our settlement paperwork... which does NOT cost $700. I of course expected to pay for that service.... but again it was not $700.

Has no business dealing in high conflict divorces, let alone family law. Never available for questions. Not prepared for court. Showed up late. Left our file at his office. Didn't recognize us even though we had been to his office and been to court with him several times before. Changed the name of h...is law firm several times while we were clients. Even changed office locations and failed to inform us. His cell phone number is constantly being changed. Office phones never work. Email doesn't work. They tell you the best way to get a response is to email, but emails are returned weeks later, if at all. We had several emergency situations (police involvement during exchanges, mother denying visitation, mother picking kids up from school when it's not her time) and he was always unavailable. Calls were returned days later, if at all. His staff is not knowledgeable and the office is a revolving door. He was not knowledgeable in family law. One of his selling points was that he clerked for our judge, but he never had anything prepared the way she liked it. Never presented it the way she liked it. We had to pay the ex thousands of dollars because he told us several times there were things we didn't have to file or documents we didn't have to produce or he added unsubstantiated claims to motions and the judge felt it 'harassed' the other side.

Worst lawyer ever! Will give you wrong legal advice as well as lie in court regarding your case "just to win"! He is money hungry! Would never return a phone call nor let me know what was going on with my case but the second we walked out of court his "financial" named James blew up my phone for FUT...URE payments! When you bring up to him that he is in the wrong he will say your harassing him & start treating you as well as going to court to lie saying he fears for his life to get a TPO just to TEAR YOUR LIFE APART! This man should be ashamed as a person & need his licence TAKEN AWAY! I recommend NO CONTACT with this man!