Patrick Ewing Clancy

In 2016 I was falsely accused of the molestation of my daughter. I had been the victim of “Parental Alienation” for a period of ten years arising out of a bitter child custody battle. I was facing life in prison if convicted. I did my research to locate the best attorney in California on the issue...s of Parental Alienation. My research lead me to hired Mr. Patrick Clancy. I was in jail with a bail of over 6.7 million dollars. I would have been able to bail out with the help of family but Mr. Clancy asked me to hold on for a few days in jail and he would work to get the bail reduced. He got it reduced to $1 million dollars and I bailed out. This saved me over $360,000 in bail bond fees. Mr. Clancy then studied my case which was voluminous. There were over three boxes of paperwork. He then carefully selected items to show to the DA in an attempt to educate the DA on the case and get the charges dropped without the need of a trial. He was successful in getting the charges dismissed before the preliminary hearing. I was totally relieved and grateful to him for his work. During the time I was in jail, he showed me and my wife great kindness, comfort, and support. We were very lucky to have found him.

I was accused of a lewd and lascivious act on a minor. The thought alone was heartbreaking mixed with terror and fright. After doing research online, i then knew i was facing Prison and Sex Registration. Thanks to Patrick Clancy, I never went to prison or had to register for sex Offender. He is a mas...ter at his craft and when i say master at his craft. Sex Crimes are his primary cases and it shows. Patrick Clancy was not the First defense attorneys i had called. I was calling local criminal defense attorneys and after doing research about their firms I realized sex crimes were mixed in with a plethora of other types of cases they handled. I thought of the expression jack of all trades master of none. My very life was at stake, so i did further research and that's when I found Patrick Clancy, that's all he worked on was sex crimes. Remember when I said master at his craft. So i called him at night and he answered.I gave him a brief description about my charge and we set up an appointment the next evening. Patrick Clancy was about an hour away and when your facing prison, i would have driven ten, you don't always neen a local attorney. If you do so happen to live in Walnut Creek then Patrick Clancy Should be your attorney. Thank you Patrick, i will never forget you, thank you soo much. If i could give you more than 5 stars i would.

At 26 years old I had been a youth soccer coach for over 8 years and had trained over 2000 soccer players without a single complaint. Out of nowhere I was accused of molestation by a 10 year old soccer player I had taught for only two days. I was shocked by this false accusation. The nightmare co...ntinued when the detective assigned to my case failed to interview the 20 witnesses who were present at the time of the alleged event. Yet, the case moved forward. How could this happen? During the trial in 2016 I learned that the detective on my case had been on the sexual molestation investigation team for one week and he had not attended a single course in child molestation investigations. There was zero investigation done when I was accused. I hired Patrick Clancy because I found out that he was an expert in this field. He is the “Chief Strategist” of the Innocence Legal Team. I learned during the trial exactly what that meant. My friends, family and I could not understand why this child would accuse me. I had done nothing against or to her. Mr. Clancy said I was looking in the wrong direction to answer the question of why me? Why was I accused? Mr. Clancy’s team carefully investigated my case and found that the student who accused me quit a soccer team the prior year even though her parents were athletes. During the soccer camp that I was running this 10 year old was with 7 and 9 year old children. She unfortunately was not as good of a soccer player as the younger children in her camp. She was picked last each day for the scrimmages. The younger children did not even sit with her during breaks. Mr. Clancy explained to the jury that this child wanted out of doing the soccer camp because she was humiliated by being rejected and felt inferior. For the first time I understood what motivated this student to do what she did. The jury returned a verdict in 1 ½ hours. I now understand the importance of a strategy and proper investigation. Everyone else had missed it.

I was recommended to Patrick Clancy by a public defender who spoke very highly of him as other attorneys here have. My review is based on my experience with his firm and his associate William (Bill) Daley who served as a representative for Mr. Clancy: After an initial free consultation of my case I ...was advised that they (The Innocence Legal Team) believed I had a good case in having felony counts reduced to misdemeanors. Although no exact time frame was given the requested retainer was $5,000.00. I was told that itemized invoices would be provided regularly and that whatever was left from the initial retainer after all legal work was completed would be returned to me. If additional funds were needed I would also be advised. Unfortunately neither of these common practices were ever followed. I called and left voice mails which were not returned and would email for status regularly but was never informed as to the current status of billing. At one point I called the 1-800 number after leaving a voice mail only to be greeted by Bill who at first didn't recall who I was. I was obviously not a priority or a memorable client despite having paid the requested retainer. After five months of phone calls and emails requesting status (but not receiving any accounting documentation) Mr. Daley advised me to retain the services of an Investigator who worked in Sacremento, nearly 80 mile from where the person of interest was to be interviewed. The PI failed at finding the person via basic methods like myspace or facebook where their presence is easily obtained. Per Mr. Daley the case rested upon the PI's efforts and nothing could be done until he completed his tasks. So I was patient and waited for such while his agreement with this individual ate up an additional $700. After waiting another fruitless two months I decided to cancel the engagement and requested an invoice. I requested this for nearly two months before being advised only $1,616 of my retainer remained and finally received an invoice. I expressed to Mr Daley how displeased I was and how difficult this money was to earn for me. Specifically I previously told him that it took me a year to save up this much money. I attempted to appeal to his conscientious as a former incarcerated person with limited employment possibility but he seemed aloof or obtuse to my circumstance as a client needing his assistance. At one point Mr. Daley even attempted to abdicate fiscal responsibility by saying that he did not have the authority to cut a check to me. But the fact is that if he would have kept me apprised of how much of my retainer had been used as well as how, then the situation wouldn't have occurred to begin with. After Mr. Daley sent me the remainder of my check I was still holding out for him to make it right. He seems like a very nice person, so this is purely focused on the business practice of the Innocence Legal Team of which Patrick Clancy's name is the in-court practicing attorney. Upon receiving the check and being quite disappointed I looked up William Daley on the internet and found startling past CA Bar Disciplines which closely reflected my own experience. For this I believe others should be clearly informed of and refrain from dealing with this firm. Many of us are already server eternal social sentences post-incarceration. We deserve to be represented better than this. Patrick Clancy allows this type of business practice. Perhaps if I were white and had more money things would have been different. I would have been deserving of updated invoices or status updates. Unfortunately for me that just wasn't the case. After roughly $4000 and nine months, I have nothing to show for any efforts from this firm. I have worked with other lawyers in the past but have never been so moved as to leave a review as I have with this experience.

I hired Patrick Clancy and his team a number of years ago now, so perhaps his practice has changed. I paid his firm $5,000 in return for a polygraph test (perform apparently by the most experienced polygraph tester in California, a Mr. Lister) and a letter written by Mr. Clancy to the investigating ...officer. In hindsight I realise I allowed myself to be grossly overcharged by Mr. Clancy, which was a direct result of viewing the scaremongering videos he sent me.