Brian Eagan

I retained Brian Eagan with high hopes but was disappointed when his first letter on my behalf notifying someone he was representing me, the letter containing language threatening legal action if they did not stop a certain activity. I asked him to remove the threat & said the rest of it was ...fine & he assured me he would remove it before sending it. He then sent it.. without removing it. I now also discover he either never properly read the documents, forgot what he read or just decided it wasn't his job to explain what they said to me, thus allowing me to interpret them myself. Yesterday i learned after consulting with different counsel that what Brian allowed me to understand the intention of the documents provisions codicils & amendments to mean was completely false. Weeks of worry concern & thousands of dollars in fees discussing, messaging & emailing how to rectify those concerns were unnecessary as a skilled Attorney pointed out yesterday the last amendment terminated those provision I was troubled about. How did he not relay this to me or even read it until 3/29 is bewildering. Even when he did read and recant it he did not make it clear that it was amending former provisions. He failed to notify me there was a trust company named to handle a trust and not my sister or any of her friends, this emancipation which was all i wanted but I had to mine through the documents to uncover this myself. When i asked him about this to his credit he did explain it to me and what it meant but it should have been told to me in early Feb. by him, and not at the end of March because of my own time studying them. He last week told me he believed a trust notification for a different trust may be void because much time had passed, saying he'd send a letter to find out what was going on. As of yesterday before my final decision to terminate his services his assistant said he hadn't sent it, & meant to call them & was leaving for a week (following his recent vacation two weeks ago) so he would be unavailable during that time. Also to his credit, in the beginning when he couldn't make a deadline, call or another aspect of service promised to render, he emailed to say he's running late & when he anticipated getting to it, he did not delegate that to an assistant. I can't speak for the firm, I'm sure there must be good attorneys there and I believe if Brian had an interest in doing a good job, perhaps for a friend or "important” client that he could but I wouldn't recommend Brian. I learned and understood more in an hour with a new Attorney than after months of Brian having access to the documents. *Today i learned the other Atty had asked him for my input on where i wanted a separate trust held. I am shocked to learn this because he never told me about this or asked me what i wanted. There was a recent email where they mentioned speaking to him, but he said they never followed up and never told me about the other email where they asked to bring me into the conversation. As it is fundamental to getting the trust set up, i now worry because he had a habit to speak for me without my knowledge & as i've terminated him, he refuses to answer or send me the follow up correspondence so i have no idea what happened to my trust or who they decided to hold it or if Brian had without my consent given his own input. I am shocked above all else, that he did not allow me to answer this or have any input, nor that he even notified me about their request for me to join the conversation about it.