Our saga with attorneys continues. The law firm that my girlfriends theoretically current attorney had been a member sent a check containing the missing money with an invoice note that just said here is the money. There was no response to my correspondences and my girlfriends issues are still not resolved.
When my girlfriend calls her theoretically current attorney to discuss the outstanding issues and her current position he brushes her off stating that he will get back in touch with her. This never happens, this is a repeat of the past issues with other
law firms.
If I confront these attorneys they fall back on stating that my girlfriend is their client, not I and will not discuss the case with me. This amuses me given several factors, first that I am paying the bills and I want to see value for the buck then their track record supported by the times that I have been with my girlfriend and caught them in "misstatements". When I bring up the indiscretions of prior attorneys they will respond that they are not them and then behave in the same manner, to which I respond that they have a credibility problem. I especially like them stating that I do not understand "strategy", I do understand that sometimes an offensive action works as long as no bridges are burnt in the process. I wont list the times when I identified a "strategy" to these attorneys and the judge or executor ruled against my girlfriend because no proof had been provided.
I seem to be able to back these attorneys into a corner. They fall back on threatening to desert my girlfriend in mid game. Because of such responses I distance myself from these "professionals" hoping that they will actually do their jobs. These attorneys also isolate her from me, usually afterwords she comes to me and asks what the heck they meant or why they avoided addressing her questions. I ask her about the outline I provided to provide her a foundation of discussion and she says that they ignored it. She says that they ask her to tell them the story in her own words, my girlfriend has a slight learning disability and sometimes says the wrong thing or misses pertinent items. This is not a reflection on her, it is the result of anxiety and betrayals by these professionals. In this manner they manage to disenfranchise my girlfriend, presume her guilty and go on to the next victim.
I would almost consider
self representation but that is suicide for an amateur against someone who has memorized the whimsical laws. I also fall back on the time that I did try and this resulted in a shouting match between the judge and myself. For some reason I believed that I should be able to present our side of a case. At that time I learned that the judge does not have to hear anything, they can then make a ruling and claim that they were unaware of the additional material.
So what do we do now, we have a check, two sets of attorneys that will not communicate the status of the case or proactively address my girlfriends outstanding issues. Tell me dear reader, should we go for an
eleventh attorney with the remnants of the funds returned ?
Then we have an
institution that chooses to dismiss its members indiscretions, aw shucks Gomer, we do not address strategy complaints,
we used to, but
not now. However you do have the option of hiring another one of our diligent, illustrious members to represent you, by the way don't forget to pay them.
Unfortunately after her
attorney deserted my girlfriend painted herself into a corner with a couple of things by taking risks to recover from her
bankruptcy and trying to pay back debts from the
injury, specialists that she had seen per the instructions of her
attorney.
The Corrupt Attorney - the collection of the grievance metric
