is there an attorney around?

[Russianwolf]

I have a question that I want to run by an attorney regarding legal malpractice, anyone around here in the field and comfortable postulating on a situation?

[final_t]

You might want to try your local Bar Assoc.'s "refer a lawyer" phone number, and they will give you a random choice from someone who specializes in the problem you're trying to solve. Generally, the initial hour consultation is usually free (at least it was here in Cowtown the two times I used it).

[sparkeyjames]

The worst part about legal malpractice is that lawyers are pretty loath to take other lawyers to court. You may have a hard time finding one. Of course if the payoff is large enough you will find many willing to take on that case. $400 an hour here you go.

[Russianwolf]

thanks guys.

It's just a frustrating situation where at least one attorney(if not two) have dropped the ball on something very important to me, and could have financial ramifications if it isn't taken care of.

I have no plans on doing anything if everything is worked out as it should be, but if not I just wanted to know if it sounds like malpractice. From my point of view, there have been problems with both my attorney and an third party attorney and I'm not about to pay for their mistakes when I'm doing everything that I'm supposed to do and have pointed out the errors on both sides (and the attorneys have admitted that they are errors).

[cgallery]

I refer to this as distracted attorney syndrome. They're just not getting it done. My mom recently worked w/ an out of state attorney in settling an estate and the attorney kept on mailing stuff to the wrong address (dropping the final "0" from my mother's address).

She (mom) was just dumbfounded. She explained to the attorney and her staff at least six times that it was screwing things up, but they never fixed her (my mom's) address in the system.

My mother finally had to get another attorney.

Sure enough, when it was time to send the bills, they (first attorney) had no problem getting the address right.

Luckily, the other attorney had my mom forward the bill to him with all the misaddressed correspondence and he was able to reach "an agreement" with the address-challenged attorney.

[Hellrazor]

That must have been the same law office that kept trying to fax conf patient info on my voice line and I got tired of it. I hooked the fax machine up, made an image of the fax and emailed it to them asking WTF they can't figure out why the phone # was wrong after the 10th time it didn't connect.

[LinuxRandal]

Attorney horror stories, like jokes, attornies have the best ones.

That said, I received the papers I was supposed to when I bought my house, postage due.

[DaveS]

Obligatory lawyer joke:

Q: How do you stop a lawyer from drowning?
A: Take your foot off his face