I am not an attorney, nor a member of any bar in any state, nor am I attempting to hold myself out as having the ability to practice law. I am not a doctor or a psychologist. I have over 40 years experience as a private investigator. In 1989, I began to specialize solely in assisting the falsely accused. Specific to that, the services that I provide are as a criminal defense strategist and as a consultant, but not as a private investigator.

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My main areas of expertise are in assisting trial attorneys, assisting clients by providing a defense strategy for anyone falsely accused of child abuse, assisting individuals in their attempts to have their convictions reversed and assisting individuals with ineffective assistance of counsel issues. While there are many fine lawyers available, there are also those who have held themselves out as experts, provided absolutely no defense for an accused, watched their client convicted and then said, "Well, I did the best I could." In those cases, we are happy to assist in preparing a case of ineffective assistance of counsel or for legal malpractice if there is civil litigation.

Make no mistake, I make enemies in my work. I have infuriated district attorneys, psychologists, attorneys, guardian ad litems, social workers and law enforcement simply by doing my job and doing it properly. Think about this carefully, based on what I do, usually I will make one side happy and one side mad. That goes with the job and I accept it. Of course, over 40 years in practice, I have angered clients as well by either not doing what they wanted or by stopping a case when evidence supported that they were honestly guilty of child abuse.

I have a passion about defending the innocent and exposing a false allegation. I have equally the same passion about defending myself against false allegations made against me by ex-clients. There are some people with issues that you could not please no matter what you do. They are usually angry at the world and striking out at everyone. I have had two prior clients file complaints against me on a site titled RipOffReport. In every case where a complaint was filed, the allegations made were absolute lies and in each case, the person who made the complaint was given an opportunity to retract their statement and apologize. When that was refused, we filed a civil suit against the Mississippi complaintant asking for $200,000.00 in actual damages and $500,000.00 in punitive damages. That lawsuit is active and was filed in Rankin County, Mississippi.

As to the second complaint, I was retained to assist a family who had a brother/son convicted of child sexual abuse. When retained, exactly what I do and the fee involved is carefully explained on my website. In that case, I was retained for 10 days of my time. When I arrived at the location and met with the family, I was presented with 2 huge boxes of material which included two complete trial transcripts, appeal briefs and miscellaneous documentation. It would have been impossible for anyone to even made a dent in that much matieral, much less break it down, in 10 days. When I reached the end of the time I had been retained for, and since I had not come close to reviewing all of the material, I told the family I would continue, at no cost to them, until I finished, but it would take time because the only chance I would have to work on it would be between cases when I returned to my home. After beginning, I had several requests for "updates" and progress reports. After responding to several, I explained that when I was working on my own time, I did not supply updates, because that required me to stop what I was doing on other cases, which obviously was not fair to the client that I was working with. When I received the third request, I very politely advised the family that if I received another request, I would stop my work and return all documents to them. I received an immediate email, apologizing and asking me to continue. I agreed. I worked on the case, on my own time, for one year, taking precious time away from my own family and, in that year, I managed to complete all transcripts from one trial, most other documents and I started analyzing the final trial transcript. Just after doing so, I received an email, once again requesting a update. I was out-of-state assisting in a trial and I immediately requested that my office box up all material and return it to the family, which included the notes I had made up to that point. After doing so, obviously a family member was upset and since she read the RipOffReport complaint that had been filed against me, she just jumped on the bandwagon. I have all the family's emails to support the facts as stated here and none would support the lies made against me in their complaint. Unfortuantely, that family will have to explain to Leonard, who is in prison, why and how their impatience, improper demands and lies were the sole reason that I refused to continue trying to help him, and at no additional cost to anyone. Obviously, it was easier for that family to attack me personally than it was explain to him what they had done. Read her complaint carefully. She was upset that I stopped and claimed she had not been told I would. Again, I have her emails clearly showing that was an absolute lie.

In every case where a complaint has been lodged against us, we felt sorry for the clients and were working without cost to them at the time we discontinued their case. I will not allow anyone to slander us without challenge and I will fight false allegations made against me with the same passion as I do for any client. I have never cheated, lied to or dishonestly taken money from any client and would not.

We appreciate very much the fact that you have visited our web site.

Allen N. Cowling