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Cooper Law Partners have been consummate professionals and have been excellent to work with.

BEWARE! This man is corrupt, totally uninformed of the law, does not have any sense of ethics or confidentiality, backstabbing, incompetent and inept, among many, many other forms of breeching a client's trust and his own Bar oath. Let me begin by stating that my husband and I had been married nearly 20 years when this all occurred. He did our estate planning and when my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and our documents came into play as far as guardianship, powers of attorney, etc., every single document was either done completely wrong, both legally and morally, did not convey the correct points as we had discussed with him and was so incorrectly written that things went to court and continue to this day to be in court. Yes, he sent the documents to us for review, knowing that we were leaving for Africa within days and wanted them to be in place before we left. I quickly reviewed them and we signed them. Upon our return we discussed and decided to make some minor changes to the Trust and Will of my husband, with written authorization for him to do so from his neurologist stating that he was not incompetent to do so. After making an appointment with Stinziano to do so, he took it upon himself to phone one of our financial advisers, who then phoned a 'friend' of the family, who then phoned my husband's daughters and their husbands to advise them of our appointment and intent to make changes. He even phoned another attorney that we had previously used for real estate, employer relations, etc., who then admittedly discussed our entire estate file with others in the community! As a result, we found ourselves in the midst of a lawsuit filed by my stepdaughters for guardianship of the assets. For three years we were involved in this lawsuit with my stepchildren attempting to take control of our assets, costing us a fortune in attorney fees, psychologists, doctors & mediators My husband eventually passed with the disease and once again we (I) found myself in such a huge mess due to his incompetence that the remaining estate continues to be sucked away by attorney's, trustees (wrongly put into place), and bad business decisions. I took the documents that were written by him to three attorneys and was told by eac h that they were a joke and that they never should have been written like that. He managed to take the wishes that we told him to include and, after giving us completely WRONG definitions of some of the instruments, (i.e. generation skipping trusts) he wrote what we THOUGHT covered our requirements but which in actuality did not even come close to what he had explained to us nor how he had explained the document worked. Thus, we had no control over the guardianship and no control of ANYTHING that was supposed to have been done. He made mistakes involving inheiritances by other individuals causing them to have to sign disclaimers and he agreed that he would make them right himself if we did not file complaints, then when asked to do so, said he didn't have to because they had already signed the disclaimers. If there were negative stars in this rating scheme, he would receive as low as it goes from me. I still cannot believe how totally incompetent this man is to practice estate planning. In ending this, I would also like to state that AT NO TIME DID THIS SO CALLED ATTORNEY STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND ADMIT THAT HE HAD DONE WRONG OR THAT THE DOCUMENTS WERE NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT THEY WERE OR THAT HE HAD EXPLAINED LEGAL ITEMS TO US WRONGLY OR OFFER TO PRODUCE NOTES FROM CLIENT CONFERENCES OR ADMIT THAT WHAT HE WAS PUTTING US THROUGH WAS HIS FAULT. CONVERSLY, HE INFERRED THAT I WAS LYING ABOUT WHAT WE HAD REQUESTED HIM TO DO AND HOW THE DOCUMENTS WERE INTENDED TO BE INTERPRETTED. THE DOCUMENTS, IN FACT, WERE LEFT TO INTERPRETATION BY OTHERS NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN OUR PRIVATE BUSINESS. The resulting lawsuits against us merely served to speed the Alzheimer's symptoms and thus the death of my husband leaving me without the intended inheiritance from my husband and continuing legal fees to this day.