Primary Goal is to get my girlfriend out of her situation
After
questionable representation from at least ten attorneys in the course of seventeen years, we have no confidence in the integrity of counsel in Northern Virginia. We question the diligence of the Virginia State Bar in ensureing the integrity of the profession, this is based upon changes in policy observed in
2000 and the avoidance of "strategy/performance" grievances. The expectation that the client will censor their unethical member by taking the risk with another member, being able to afford to address the negligence of the first. According to
lawyers.com I/we cannot sue the Virginia State Bar for its inablity to ensure that I can obtain counsel that will competently represent me, that it does not collect and make available the issues that other clients have had with the service provided by counsel being reviewed for employment.
My girlfriend now has an attorney who does not respond to letters requesting explaination of invoices with incorrect amounts, the dismissal of this throws question on the diligence of their representation. Letters were provided to facilitate a proactive strategy to my girlfriends outstanding issues, the attorney failed to respond to these. The latter combined with the money issue again puts my girlfriend in limbo, unable to address and resolve any issue in this environment in a proactive manner.
If issue is taken with this site or its goals, we have no problem with bringing our issue up in court. We have been in contact with the ACLU who states that we may have a case but they cannot allocate resources to address our issues. I have also been in contact with Micheal Moore and active on
some sites, I have no problem with a media event.
This can all be resolved by addressing the issues documented on
our site. What mistakes we have made were out of desparation to escape from a State where we were harvested with no oversight of service. The
lawyer community cannot even discuss quality performance, negligence or profiteering by its constituants - the claim is that they are diligent without foundation either supporting their claim or refuting it. By failing to diligently address the Bar has given us a collection of ten attorneys that we can point to and identify items of contention.
Principle - accountability that will ensure incentive to provide quality representation to the community by the attorney population
From our experiences attorney, family or associates referral is not dependable. The BBB addresses business failures, not the nebulous nature of the legal profession, it cannot be expected of this institution to rate the merit of material that was not used, this is not its mission. This leaves the Bar, I use the Virginia State Bar because that is the institution that we have had dealings with. When my girlfriends
attorney deserted I noticed that the Virginia State Bar had replaced the
Code of Professional Responsibility - the Canon's with
Professional Guidelines and Rules of Professional Conduct. The Canon's alluded to integrity, competence, diligence and zealous representation, this foundation was removed with the "Guideline" implementation, allowing performance and strategy failures to be dismissed by an agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia. There is no longer any "incentive" that would ensure a member would effectively repesent a client knowing that they are sheltered from client complaints through the
policies implemented in 2000, the replacement of the 'Code of Professional Responsibility' by 'Rules of Professional Conduct'. Members of this community "say" that the majority of them are diligent but this claim is without foundation in the current context.
My claim is that the profession is infected, the certifying institution is negligent or conspiring to facilitate the practice of fraud in the community. The institution is not competent to claim that its members will represent their clients in a diligent manner because it avoides material, the metric of grievance collection that could identify possible problem members. The institution expected that most damaged clients if told that they made the mistake or told that to address failed representation would cost too much time and money, they would give up - the offending member would not be repremanded. Then there are the laws, just within what time frame can legal malpractice be addressed ? In all my discussions no one has stated the time frame for malpractice, the impression was that it was rather short. The combined reluctance of the community to address, refer a victim to a member that would address malpractice and a short period of time to address provides a very safe harbor.
Financial - recovery of losses
Seventeen years is a large investment of time.
Five years four attorneys, watching as these professionals make a train wreck of ones life, dismissing material, failing to refute opposing statements using material handed to these professionals.
Another five years because my girlfriend could not afford a car, was bankrupt, so she was dog bitten while walking, this time the attorney stole settlements from their clients. The Virginia State Bar sends the files and dismisses my girlfriend's case. We make some mistakes trying to escape this area and my girlfriend has a breakdown, requiring legal assistance
again the failures to engage, dismissal of records, video and witnesses. The failures of this Virginia community that has no oversight has resulted in our inability to address the mistakes that we have made - this is damage.
Identification of a "strategy" in the profession to attack an individuals self esteem
when discrepancies in their representation are noticed. This occurs when one approaches the community, note the responses
here or lack of [
1,
2]. The practice of blaming the client or name calling does not help those with low self esteme in need of services. This has been observed in the handling of my girlfriends case by these "professionals". My girlfriend was abused most of her life, when she made a choice she was discriminated against by the professionals she retained. My girlfriend has been diagnosed as bipolar, having a learning disability and of course the injury to her leg that reduces her employability.
Identification of a niche available for information professionals to profit.
I do not have the assets to follow through with this initiative, fund raising is not a skill set that I have. From our experiences though we do not have confidence in the integrity of those constituting this profession. The diligent have been overshadowed by those who see the client as a crop to be harvested at whatever cost.
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