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 acused. 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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Because statutes change frequently and the case law that interprets them can easily change on a daily basis, Cowling Investigations, Inc. neither represents, warranties nor claims that the information on these pages is the most current or accurate information available, or is without any errors or omissions.

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 quality 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 use ineffective assistance of counsel as the cornerstone for reversing a conviction and for legal malpractice 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. Then there are some clients with issues that you could not please no matter what you did and, of those, several filed 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 complainant was given an opportunity to retract their statement and apologize. When that was refused, we had no choice other than filing a civil lawsuit against the complaintant asking for $200,000.00 actual damages and $500,000.00 in punitive damages. 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. I have never cheated, lied to or dishonestly taken money from any client and would not.

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Allen N. Cowling