David Benjamin Rubin

David is a very friendly person, He may be a good friend in life, but definitely not a competent lawyer for you. This review is only based on his behavior as a licensed lawyer. I hired David for my family court case in early 2019. After I spent $13000+ , I got nothing done, except lost my visitati...on with my daughter per his help. During a mediation in June 2019, David misled me to sign a stipulation which was written in a tricky way that in favor of the opposing party. I pointed out that issue and expressed my concern to David. He said it is OK and promised me that I will continue have my visitation, but I lost it due to that stipulation. Then, his perfect explanation for his own malpractice is that there is always something unpredictable in family court. Later, I realized that he knows that mediator and he was trying to be nice to her by ignoring my concerns. This is certainly a malpractice case and I already filed a malpractice complaint with the bar association. Over this whole process, David demonstrated a talent to purposely make simple topics very complicated, the only consequences is that you will have a pay a larger amount of bill for nothing. ( I already submitted a fee arbitration request to the bar association) 1. Whenever you ask a question, he will not answer you directly. Instead, he will list more than ten possibilities to confuse you, so to make a lengthy discussion for even a quite simple question. Of course, all these will be on your bill. 2. He will make every legal procedure ten times complicated, and purposely try to make every details to be perfect. It looks like he is trying to do a detailed job for you, However, you will spend double or triple as it supposed to be. For example, it took me $1000+ to do a simple subpoena, and I even provided the draft of it. He went back and forth with me for more than twenty emails and spent hours on making phones to every one possibly involved with this, and He tried to considered all the possible situations. 3. This also applies to any format of communication. It usually takes 10+ emails to communicate for a quite straightforward issue. I was really tired of this game. As I mentioned before, He may looks professional in front of the client with all these lengthy talking. Interestingly, he becomes very incompetent when facing the opposing party's lawyer, and the judge. In all these hearings while he presents me, he was always very quiet and barely say anything for me in front of the judge, while the other party's attorney is keep talking and attacking. Where is your talent on the court? David. Even though, his rate is lower than other lawyers, but I really DO NOT recommend him for all the above reasons. Remember that the final bill equals to the rate * hours spent on your case. You will spent even more than hiring other lawyers since David will make the hours double or even triple with his super talent. The most important thing is that you will still LOSE all the hearings even after you pay extra money. Lastly, if you still decide to take the risk. A kind reminder is that you can always contact the bar association for fee arbitration if you end up being overcharged. Oh, BTW, David told me in the email that he will be a member of the fee arbitration committee soon, so he will have more experience than you.

I found David Rubin through Santa Clara County Bar Association and hired him for my 82 year old father. I have power of attorney over this case. David Rubin billed Dad for a lot of phone calls and emails to me. But never accomplished anything. David Rubin did not listen to any requests we made and a...cted like a one man dog and pony show. David Rubin insisted on talking to my lawyer for advice and arranged a phone call and email with my lawyer. And then billed my Dad. Really? He won’t send a billing statement until you ask for one which allows him plenty of time to soak up the retainer, in particular my Dads retainer without even getting a case filed. He acts like he knows what he is doing in a civil case. But clearly does not. He also consulted other lawyers advice and then billed my Dad. If David Rubin knew he couldn’t competently handle dads case. He should have told us from the beginning. Most family law incorporates civil issues into a case and David Rubin was not competent to manage this. We hired another law firm prior to Rubin and Dad had to let them go because they were ready to file a divorce for my dad. But Dads ex wife had already divorced him. David Rubin told my dad he isn’t able to get along with attorneys so should just drop his case. He also said he didn’t think my Dad would win his case. My question would be. Why did you continue to work on the case and bill Dad if you didn’t think he would win?

I contacted David about drafting and executing a legal agreement. For this particular case, he offered a flat fee that I thought was fair. He was very accommodating, giving me exactly the level of involvement that I wanted in drafting the document. He guided me through every step of the process, e...ducating me and alerting me to issues that I hadn't thought about. His knowledge of the law seemed thorough. I did some reading about the law, but every single thing I brought up he already knew about. He was very patient and detailed in answering all of my questions. Throughout the process his concern was in creating an agreement that would hold up in litigation, should the need ever arise. I had dealings with another lawyer who only seemed to want to do the bare minimum. That other person would always say "Oh, you don't need to do this, you don't need to do that - it's good enough the way it is". David, in contrast, was always thinking about how litigation might play out, and how we can write the agreement to avoid problems, especially on points where the law is ambiguous. David really spent a lot of time working with me to get the agreement to say exactly what I wanted. He responded to all of my e-mail and phone calls very quickly. He pushed the process along, prodding me on certain occasions about the information that I needed to deliver to him. Our deadline was met with time to spare. I can unreservedly recommend David Rubin for family law matters.