Brett E Engel

Brett began the divorce by sending letters to my husband's attorney viciously attacking my husband as a father and person. He did not fully tell me until after he did it. I was upset. I did not want war. I simply wanted to reach agreement on 4 things: division of marital assets, child custody, sp...ousal support, and child support. I asked Brett to stop. Of course they responded. Instead of restraint, Brett viciously responded. The result was Brett caused numerous rounds of unproductive and expensive ugly attorney interactions that destroyed trust and hurt our ability to work out agreements. Brett was primarily focused on fighting with and "defeating" the opposing attorney. Representing me to help reach agreement on the 4 items was a much lower priority for him. It was an expensive ugly disaster.

I simply wanted a competent, honest, ethical lawyer. Below are specific disturbing examples of Mr. Engel's representation of me. ---- 1) Mr. Engel miscalculated our financial assets by over 400%. Mr. Engel refused to stop fighting for his wrong financials until the judge threw them out. 2...) Mr. Engel guaranteed me that Oregon law required my ex to pay me spousal support in perpetuity. The judge denied Mr. Engel's demand and ordered that I receive spousal support for 1/2 the # of years we were married - because that was the standard. 3) Mr. Engel instructed me to physically harrass my husband in the home to incite him to hit me in front of the children to try to get him thrown out of the home and strengthen our case. 4) Mr. Engel instructed some of my winitnesses to state factually incorrect things. They were uncomfortable with the dishonesty and backed out.

Mr.Engel is a waste of money and will only make your case worse! He will try and pinch every last penny he can by over charging, not communicating, and refusing to represent ethically on the matter. Not only did I waste my entire savings with this guy but he resigned before it even mattered. My Ex w...on everything and I was left high and dry! Don’t worse your time, Mr.Engel is about himself and does not represent his clients in good faith. I suggest using someone else absolutely on all matters!

I hired Brett for a divorce matter and not only did he drag the case on for way longer then it needed to but he made sure to have it cost as much as humanly possible. He lost me everything and then proceeded to tell me it’s the way it is. Awful lawyer and does not represent his clients in a decent ma...nner. Skip over Brett, you’ll be very thankful you did!

Attorney Engel was retained to represent me during my divorce. We was responsible for working out how we would divide our financial assets. My soon to be ex husband and I had always shared our financial information with each other so it was supposed to be very simple. Mr. Engel however spent hours... of time convincing me based on his significant experience that my husband was hiding assets from me. I was naive and it was an emotional time going through a divorce so I trusted him as an expert and allowed him to draw us into a significant legal discovery including hiring a forensic account to review all money and court time. Mr. Engel charged me over $12,000 for this work he convinced me was necessary. In the end, a shared bank account with $500 was uncovered that my ex to be and me had forgotten. We split the $500; $250 each. Attorney Engel informed me he had made a mistake. I asked him to refund the $12,000 and he responded by telling me he was following my direction and no refund of any sort would happen. He cost me (and my children) $11,750 due to his mistake and took no responsibility. Just as bad, my ex husband never forgave me for what was done to him and we were never able to co-parent with trust again which caused great harm to my children. I fired Mr. Engel.