Here is a case of the court's diligence, the participant is a
trustee assigned by the courts to address my girlfriends bankruptcy, her
fourth attorney and the
third attorney.
Now the
fourth attorney had my girlfriend file bankruptcy to get out of the suit and tried to charge the
third attorney with malpractice. Throughout this period the
fourth attorney had stated that prior counsel had not done their job and that the
husbands attorney was unethical.
At the time of the meeting with
trustee my girlfriend had the
fourth attorney telling her about the mistakes made by prior counsel but not providing details and our memory of the meeting with the
third attorney when they informed us about the suit against us. To this day in that meeting room with the
third attorney stands out vividly, over two years after the incident we knew that the date of the event did not occur on the date in the police report, we knew this, because the calls were made as a result of my girlfriend spending several hours begging for a visitation with her son to see him on his birthday in August, the charges were made in September 1989. I mentioned this several times in that meeting with
third attorney, one time he was walking out of the room. I even mentioned that the
second attorney would have note of it, he handled the criminal charges. Yet, according to the
trustee because the
third attorney did not make note of our questioning the date he was diligent. What about the complaints that our
fourth attorney was making, here was a professional claiming unethical conduct for one and negligence to malpractice for the other. The
trustee's report only mentioned conversation with the
fourth attorney, was this professional dismissed ? why no mention of their allegations ?
Another point of interest was that the
husbands attorney showed up to the bankruptcy hearing as a friend of the court, was there collaboration between the
trustee and the
husbands attorney also ? I make this claim because after the wait period no creditor had made a claim,
fourth attorney had confirmed this, a week later we were informed that the claim had been put in, guess some are privileged in the eyes of the courts.
The
third attorney by not listening to me when I questioned the date of the event, this strategy of not listenting exposed their client to the suit. How much more did this attorney bury ? Remember we had hired ourselves a "professional". After our
fourth attorney dropped their "abuse of process" action we went to the archives, memory lane and discovered the depths of betrayal by this member of the Virginia State Bar - it is all in the "Strategy".
- The third attorney never did contact the mental health counselors that my girlfriend had been seeing for years prior to her separation. They had also been instrumental in the separation by notifying the authorities and assistance. They had expected to be contacted.
- Girlfriend was called by her mental health counselor telling her that they were taking her records, she had to beg the third attorney to take action.
- The courts accessed only the records pertaining to the activities starting a year after separation, skipping years of cohabitation, spousal abuse and stalking. So much for that silly Privacy Act, since the records accessed only pertained to someone seeking guidance both personal and legal. The children had been excluded at the time of the access so competency for custody was not applicable.
- The meeting with third attorney discussed here.
- When the courts ruled in the husbands favor with the standard Virginia settlement, the third attorney allowed delays, their client to be slandered and a real estate agent who got so upset about the inaction that they looked into our attorney and discovered that they were running for political office. When they mentioned this to me I thought great this professional was "distracted".....
- On a lark I look into the husbands attorney and discover active political affiliations. Add their crusade against us, threatening to "destroy us because we were sinners" in a private conversation gives us concern.
These are all "strategy" issues the
husbands attorney used their tactics to leverage their cause. The
third attorney was either "distracted" or leveraged their position in a political agenda. Just why did the
fourth attorney drop their "abuse of process" ? So with the Virginia State Bar's changed from
here today to
gone tomorrow allowing them to dismiss "strategy", this is what they are dismissing.
You may ask one more question, why didnt we address this back in 1995. Well we were getting road blocks after the
fourth attorney dropped their "abuse of process", the psychiatrist they had us see and ourselves were in a quandary. This ended when my girlfriend was bitten by a dog, this
attorney was supposed to address this issue when they finished with the injury case, one thing at a time they told us, five years pass and they desert and the Virginia State Bar changes their policy
here today to
gone tomorrow - say goodbye to "diligence", "integrity", "propriety" and "competence"......Especially if one is a Probono client.....