William James Dean

My divorce turned out very badly. W Dean agreed to handle my divorce based on his recommendation to file on the basis of Financial Waste. Because I explained that the defendant had stolen nearly a million $ of our joint earnings and savings, by wire transferring fund into secret accounts. I provid...e Dean with documentation to support my claims, trust account docs, copies of bank statements, all of which he ignored. Jus 1 week after charging me $4000 to retain him, he immediately changed the plea to Uncontested and from that moment on did nothing he claimed to do for me. He took the side of the defendant , refusing to subpoena our bank records, and filed the statements the defendant made with the court with no verification or docs of any kind. He failed to provide me with copies of filings, so I had no idea of the falsehoods that he submitted to the judge until after filing the final motion. I was burdened with overwhelming financial obligations that Dean added into the divorce without telling me, and rushed me into signing late at night waking me up to do it. I assumed it was the same divorce I read 2 weeks earlier, but it wasn't, he had completely altered it and insisted I sign right away not giving me time to read it first. A year and a 1/2 later I am still struggling to make ends meet, am in serious debt, get no support and did not even recover funds that I spent to maintain the house and pay defendants mortgage while still married. Mr Dean did not fight for me and ignored all evidence I presented to him to build my case. 08/09/2023 Update to this review In 06/2022 I paid Mr Dean $2000 to represent me in a Post Divorce Modification, he accepted the $ and agreed to do it. Several days later he wanted another $2000, but as he did not effectively represent me in the divorce, had submitted false information to the court, information from the defendant whose word he took over mine his paying client, I did not want to give him any more $ and asked that he call me to go over his Post Divorce strategy. He ignored me. For 2 weeks he ignored me and then sent only emails that I pay the defendant $50,000. but would not tell me what the $50,000 was for. He refused to write up a contract for the $50,000 payment to confirm what I was paying for. I repeatedly asked him if it was for a "quit claim deed to the house I was living in, and again he ignored me. I said I am not paying the defendant who stole over $400,000 of my earnings in a secret Morgan Stanley account in his own name any more $. So Dean fired me. I just went to court 8/07 representing myself since Dean kept my $2000 never refunded me. The 1st words out of the defendant's mouth were, I want William Dean here to represent me and the judge gave him permission to hire the attorney that I had already paid to help me, the one who's ineffective, inadequate representation in the divorce, forced me into bankruptcy and homelessness. Obviously the great rapport between Dean and the defendant caused him to abandon any effort to help me. I recommend staying as far away from this duplicitous, conniving schemer whose bottom line is who has the most $, and has dubious motives as an attorney. He seems to resent women, especially women who are professional and run a sucessful business. I supported my ex, his adult son, and myself for 8 years on my salary, because my ex had hidden $ in secret accounts he wanted for himself and contributed nothing towards our house hold since 2014. Dean did less than nothing for me. I could have done better by myself.