The Law Firm from Hell: An Ongoing Series ⚖️🔥 This post is part of a series documenting my personal experience with Adam Mann, Esq. and Cohen and Cohen Law. This is not just a review; it is a step-by-step breakdown of how a “top” Hollywood, FL firm fumbled my case and then tried to erase the audit trail. New chapters are added as the evidence is unboxed.
When your lawyer stops acting like your advocate and starts acting like his own defense attorney…
Let me walk you through it.
I wrote a 1-star review of Adam Mann and Cohen and Cohen Law because I was done protecting people who had no problem misleading me. I was told for months that the firm had to drop my case because of a directive from The Hartford insurance company. I was lied to (over the phone and in writing) about their conversations with The Hartford regarding their malpractice coverage.
It wasn’t until recently that I learned they never had malpractice (professional liability) coverage with that insurer. While Adam Mann was consoling me, he was also hiding the fact that he was lying to the very person who was crying to him.
What you’re about to read isn’t just a client venting: it’s a breakdown of how trust gets weaponized, and how a supposedly reputable law firm let one attorney play gatekeeper, damage control, and disappearance act all at once.
Here’s my recent Google review, with the full context they don’t want you to know:
“Avoid Adam Mann and Cohen and Cohen. I trusted Adam and the firm with my case for 5 months, only to be met with a disturbing pattern of deception and concealment.”
This wasn’t a misunderstanding. It wasn’t a dropped call or a busy week. It was 5 months of dodging, redirection, fake empathy, slow-rolling updates and outright lies that never matched what was actually happening behind the scenes. When I say “deception,” I mean I was fed curated narratives (again, lies) instead of facts. And concealment? That’s being generous. Adam Mann built a wall between me and the truth about my own case.
“Adam did earn my trust but only because he wasn’t honest with me. If I had known who he really was and what he was hiding from me, I would’ve run away from him.”
And that’s the part that still makes my skin crawl. Adam came across as warm, empathetic, attentive. But it wasn’t real, it was calculated. The version of himself he gave me was carefully chosen to keep me calm, keep me cooperative, and keep me from asking the right questions. When I finally did, his entire tone changed. Suddenly I wasn’t a client anymore, I was a threat to his image. 🧊
“Not only did Adam repeatedly lie to me about the status of my case, but he fabricated a narrative about insurance premiums to coerce me into dropping my case when he no longer wanted to do the work.”
Read that again. He coerced me into dropping my case. When he decided he didn’t want to deal with it anymore (not because it was meritless, but because it required effort, follow-through, and actual risk management) Adam Mann made up a completely false narrative about insurance premiums. He used his general liability insurer (The Hartford) as the Bad Guy, and he never told me there was a professional liability exclusion (read: malpractice) for that policy. But he kept up his lies and claimed that if he continued to represent me it could somehow “raise their rates” by 400%. Spoiler: I checked. That wasn’t true. Not even close.
“All of this was uncovered when I contacted the firm’s general liability insurer (not to be confused with professional liability insurance, which Adam has hidden from me).”
That part makes them squirm. Because I did what most clients don’t: I made the call myself. I contacted the general liability carrier, The Hartford. And the moment I did, the lies started unraveling. The things he told me? Not even close to what the insurance carrier confirmed. And the worst part is he’s still hiding his professional liability coverage. Months later. 🤨
“When I exercised my legal right to request mandatory insurance disclosures, Adam issued documented false statements of law, claiming the rules didn’t apply to him or his ‘context.’ He was incredibly evasive, and when I asked what he was hiding, he simply shut down and stated he wouldn’t engage in the conversation, locking my legal right to begin the process of correcting the damage he caused.”
This was the turning point. I wasn’t asking for favors. I was asserting a legal right. And in response, he told me the law didn’t apply. To him. Because of his “context.” (Whatever that means.) That’s not just shady, it’s disturbing. He shut down the conversation the moment it stopped being easy for him. The moment I stopped being passive.
“The firm’s own general liability carrier, The Hartford, had to acknowledge the statutory deadline because Adam Mann refused to do so. As of today, he is still refusing to disclose his professional liability carrier information, in what I believe is a desperate attempt to avoid further accountability.”
I had to go through the firm’s own insurance company to get clarity, because he refused to acknowledge the legal timeline for filing a claim. It was The Hartford (not him) that ultimately had to admit the 30-day disclosure of insurance clock was ticking. He had no intention of telling me. No intention of owning what he did. And still, to this day, he’s refusing to share the information every attorney is required to have.
That’s not confidence. That’s cover-up. 🕵🏽♀️📉
“Adam’s paralegal and personal friend, Beth, was permitted to disparage me to third parties. Adam tried to play both sides (protecting Beth in emails and telling me a different story in phone calls and texts).”
This wasn’t office gossip. This wasn’t a misunderstanding. This was my attorney allowing a woman named Beth (not Elizabeth or even Liz… just Beth) to speak about me in ways that crossed professional lines. And instead of shutting that down, Adam tried to manage me.
In writing, he protected Beth (“I don’t think what Beth did had any negative effects,” although her mouth triggered billing from one of the medical offices she spoke to about me). In private conversations, he told me something else entirely (“The Cohens and I reprimanded her.”) Two narratives. Two faces. One very clear priority, and it wasn’t his client (former or otherwise). 🎭
“There were privacy breaches, which included his wife texting me, uninvited, from our confidential attorney-client text thread.”
I sent Adam a text. And his wife was responding to me in real time, from his phone, inside our confidential attorney-client conversation.
No warning. No consent. No explanation other than a family emergency that apparently didn’t affect her since she wasn’t with him.
Is this normal for an attorney? No. And it is not acceptable. 🚨
“I sent Adam a single-sentence text and before I could even exit the thread, the messaging bubbles appeared; his wife was actively monitoring his phone.”
I wasn’t told she had access. I wasn’t asked if I was comfortable with it. And afterward? I received zero transparency about how my information was accessed, what she saw, or how long this had been happening. Adam’s response was, “It was a fluke. She didn’t read anything because she’s not the ‘snoopy’ type.” Sir, recent history would suggest otherwise.
Instead of straight answers, I was brushed off and made to feel like I was wrong for questioning their dynamic which was affecting me (and possibly other clients). This told me everything I needed to know. 📵
“I received zero transparency about how my information was accessed or used. Adam functioned as a total gatekeeper, refusing to allow me to speak to the owners of the firm while claiming they were the ones making critical decisions about my case.”
Every time I asked to speak directly to the people supposedly making decisions about my case, Adam Mann blocked it. He said the partners were involved. He said the firm was aligned. But he refused to let me confirm any of it.
Everything went through him. Only him. Information in, information out. Control intact. 🔒
“It felt like my file was being held hostage in a ‘black box’ where only Adam held the key.”
That’s exactly what it felt like: my own case locked away from me. No independent verification. No direct access. Just trust him, trust the process, don’t ask too many questions.
But that only works when there’s nothing to hide. 🕳️
“I discovered a shocking lack of documentation. Despite Adam’s claims that he kept contemporaneous notes, there were only 8 notes for my entire 5-month case with the firm.”
I need to correct the record. It wasn’t eight notes… it was nine. Nine notes. Five months. Roughly 150 days.
That’s not a paperwork issue. That’s a red flag the size of a courthouse. 🚩
Entire months of my life, strategy discussions, alleged conversations with the opposing side. None of it existed in the file.
“He sent me screenshots showing his paralegal and personal friend, Beth, editing these flimsy notes after the fact.”
This part matters.
When I pressed for records, Adam didn’t deny the problem; he accidentally confirmed it. He sent screenshots proving the notes were being edited after the fact. Not contemporaneous. Not reliable. Not transparent.
When I asked what was changed or why so much was missing, he refused to answer. When I asked for documentation about who touched my files, with dates and times, I was stonewalled. 🧾✂️
“I discovered Adam was concealing a second $1M insurance policy from me for 60 days, despite knowing I was making life-altering decisions based on the false information he provided.”
This is where the damage became undeniable.
For two months, Adam withheld information about a second $1M policy while I was making decisions that affected my health, my finances, and my future. He knew what I believed. He knew it wasn’t true. And he said nothing.
When I confronted him about seeing the missing $1M policy in the file he sent to my new law firm, Adam’s response was, “I didn’t know you were looking for it.” But of course, because no one is ever looking for an extra $1M to put in their pocket. 💸
“I moved my case to Morgan & Morgan, filed a lawsuit within 30 days (while Adam was dishonest with me and filed nothing for 150 days), and there are now two defendants named on my case and two $1M insurance policies at play.”
The contrast speaks for itself.
Within 30 days of switching firms, my lawsuit was filed. Under Adam, nothing had been filed after five months. Suddenly the case moved. Suddenly there was action. Suddenly the facts mattered.
That alone tells you everything you need to know. ⚖️
“In my experience he didn’t care at all and while he was consoling me, leaving heart Tapbacks on my messages and telling me he would ‘be there for me,’ he was hiding the fact that he was the person who orchestrated the chaos.”
This is the betrayal.
The empathy wasn’t real. The reassurance wasn’t real. It was a performance designed to keep me compliant while the damage continued behind the scenes. The moment I asked real questions a chill entered the chat.
The more questions I asked, the more I realized Adam was lying to me.
“Adam tried to be both the arsonist and the fireman…”
That line wasn’t rhetorical. It was literal.
He wasn’t the firefighter. He was the one with the match, destroying my case and any momentum I had with his lies about insurance policies and ultimatums. 🔥
“Adam also seemingly believes that once he drops a case, his ethical obligations vanish. He is wrong.”
They don’t. Not in America. Not anywhere.
An attorney doesn’t get to sabotage a case, walk away, and then block accountability. Ethical duties don’t expire just because it’s inconvenient to keep them. 🧊⚖️
“Do not let his ‘hero’ persona fool you.”
That’s the warning.
Because the version of Adam Mann you meet at intake is not the version you deal with when things get hard… and by then, it may already be too late.
Pro Tip:
If your attorney starts dodging insurance disclosure questions or makes up fake rules to avoid accountability… he’s not protecting himself from premiums. He’s protecting himself from you. 🧐