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.
If you’re searching for an honest Cohen and Cohen Law review, or if you’ve been told by Adam Mann, Esq. that he is “on top of every detail,” pull up a chair. I’ve pulled out a calculator, and the math still doesn’t add up.
In the legal profession, there is a standard called “contemporaneous notes.” It’s a fancy way of saying: Write down what you do while you’re doing it. It’s the only way to ensure a client’s case doesn’t vanish into thin air. Adam Mann assured me he was a master of this. He played the part of the diligent, “aggressive”advocate perfectly.
Then I requested my file. 📂
For five months, roughly 150 days of my life, Adam Mann and his team at Cohen and Cohen Law produced exactly nine notes. That is not a typo; it is the number between eight and ten. Let’s look at that Hollywood, FL law firm “hustle” by the numbers:
• Total Days of Representation: 150
• Total Notes in File: 9
• The Frequency: One note every 16.6 days.
Five months. Nine notes. One legal career’s worth of gaslighting. Let’s do the math: That’s one note every 16.6 days, most of them “edited” after the fact by Beth, the paralegal/“bestie.” Imagine trusting your future to a firm that documents your trauma like it’s a Netflix password: written once, forgotten forever, and shared with the wrong people.
Entire months of my life, critical strategy shifts, and supposed conversations with the opposing side simply… didn’t exist. There were no records of filings, no records of negotiations, and no records of the “work” Adam Mann, Esq. claimed he was doing while sending me heart Tapbacks and telling me to “trust the process.”
The “Beth” Factor: Editing the Past 🖋️
It gets darker (as most things do when there’s a rogue employee). When I pressed for the records, Adam actually sent me screenshots that proved his paralegal (and personal friend) Beth was editing these flimsy notes after the fact. Here are the absolutely sparse notes Adam Mann shared with me of all of the notes taken for multiple months:
Adam Mann, Esq. confirmed: no case documentation for June or July. “Aggressive advocacy,” apparently, means zero paperwork and a whole lot of retroactive scrambling.
🕦 The August/September Gap:
Look at these date stamps. Months missing. Administrative check-ins but no legal action, no real work. And that little “(edited)” tag? It’s Beth, being sneaky and quietly rewriting history while my file sat in limbo.
🚩 The October “Hurry Up” Phase:
Suddenly, after months of silence, Adam finds religion, only when I demand transparency. But the notes? Just medical updates I gave them, copy-pasted and stamped “edited.” Still no legal work. Still no real movement. The black box in action: all smoke, no fire.
Let’s think about that for a moment. They weren’t just failing to document my case in real-time; they were retroactively “updating” the record once I started asking questions. When I asked Adam Mann what was changed, when it was changed, and why my file looked like a redacted CIA document, he did what he does best: He shut down. The “Hero” persona disappeared the second the audit began. He wouldn’t explain why months of work went unrecorded, or why his “personal friend” was allowed to manipulate my legal file behind the scenes.
This isn’t just a lack of organization. This is how a case is sabotaged in the shadows. This is why you should be terrified of a “black box” firm where the only thing being managed is your perception of the truth.
Pro Tip:
If your attorney’s “personal friendship” with their paralegal means more to them than your case, run. If there are only 9 notes in your file after 150 days, run quickly. You will never know peace at that firm. 🏃♀️