All hope abandon, ye who enter here !

The "Dead Sea Scrolls"
I was informed that I was writing the "Dead Sea Scrolls" here. I may not have made my intent clear and maybe it is a "rant". If it is a "rant" it is the implementation, not the system that I am "ranting" against. The intent of this site is to refute the claim by members of the industry that there are only a "few bad apples" in the barrel and that we, the client, did not research our prospective counsel diligently enough.

This led me to ask where one can find the metrics that would identify a prospective attorney who just processes their clients, from one who would diligently represent them. From our experiences I can only assume that to know whether one has retained a competent attorney they must have psychic abilities because unlike "Football", performance statistics are not maintained on these sanctioned members of a Bar. In Virginia, the Bar claims to enforce ethical behavior of their members, however I/we have discovered that the only thing that the Bar considers unethical is mis-filing, financial, not representing in court or desertion. What the Bar does not address or identify are "performance" failures that result in a client being damaged. I find it of interest that the Virginia State Bar changed from Code of Professional Responsibility  /  ethical canons to Professional Guidelines and Rules of Professional Conduct around the year 2000.

It is July 2007 and we are here, our journey down Attorney Road continues......

After the police assault in 2005 and the representation that we had for it, we gave up. I subscribed to a Legal Service March 2006 who put us in touch with their affiliate provider Law Firm to address my girlfriend's outstanding issue with Citibank/Multiver Corporation and some debts - I still wanted to address past issues but time had passed. With this company we thought we could have some accountability, control over these attorneys. My girlfriend had a court date in August 2006, this service would not, could not provide an attorney for that date even though my girlfriend notified them three weeks in advance. This resulted in a judgment against her, apparently because the Citibank attorney went back to the judge and lied about an agreement. It is now July 2007, the intent was to bankrupt my girlfriend, a plan we had in March 2006 and go on - this Legal Service has yet to provide an attorney for my girlfriends issues in spite of numerous complaints - again, attorneys or their affiliates have become our problem, not a solution. So I contacted the Better Business Bureau for Oklahoma City , they responded that our complaint with this Legal Service and affiliated law firm was outside their purview, because of court ? Ironically between the time that I had sent my complaint in to the BBB and their dropping it we were getting results, both the Law Firm and the Service were calling my girlfriend on a daily basis, when the BBB dropped us the diligence stopped. This upset me so I reviewed our past "Issues" and the road we are on.

I have been looking at our experiences as being independent of each other, of the environment or shall we say theater of action. This is the wrong perspective to address our situation, this is the information age where statistics are kept on everyone and everything. Why bother to represent if the client has a record the client is processed and discarded, the client is "presumed guilty". This is the "strategy" that the Virginia State Bar supports when it claims that it does not address "strategy" issues. An analogy would be if one were to hire a body guard, an incident occurs, the body guard blocks and parries a few times to make it look good and then exposes their client to the killing blow - their strategy was that their client was not a client of choice - maybe the opposite side had a better offer, it would be their profitable "strategy".

Historical Perspective
Prompted by our recent experiences I Google'd the attorneys of our past, starting with the "Crusader", with "Christian Brotherhood" on his letterhead. Remembering the Christian strategy used against us, the apparent religious and political connections of this attorney and the real estate agents comment about my girlfriends attorney running for political office. I thought just what "lists" are we on, once we have a "record" it is not easy to expunge it, whether it is a government list or a religious organizations list and given the zealousness of husbands attorney's crusade we are on one and possibly both.

I also read some of the articles that our "Crusader" authored. I found this article, The Dangerous Nature of Homosexuality and I remembered the "zeal" with which this attorney persecuted my girlfriend who did not agree with the "lifestyle" choice of her husband and had left him before she met me.

To put this in perspective, we have...

The pictures  that are included on this site, are not done out of spite but to demonstrate the incongruities of the case at that time. The wife did not agree with the lifestyle choice of her husband, the last of a long line of abuses so she left with her child. The wife had these pictures and both her second attorney and third attorney were aware of them. The second attorney used them effectively, the third attorney did not use them, claiming "professional courtesy". I cannot help but note the message that husbands attorney authors and the "zealous" defense of this client. A Christian Crusader defending his cross dressing client against the evil, murdering, adulterous housewife with a grade school education, a church goer, trying to escape with their children from an abusive husband who told her he wanted to become a woman. This attorney is one that if you are guilty you would want on your side, he was awesome, he blocked all actions and for some reason our fourth attorney dropped their "abuse of process" action without explanation. Learn and remember this future attorneys, the best strategy is deceit, this theater is like a chess game where cheating is allowed, steal that piece, buy the opposition, clients are marks to be harvested - good strategy. Do not mis-file a legal document though or do like my girlfriends "dog bite attorney" did.

This is the "information age", with the latest "attorney failure", the depth of the husbands attorney's crusade against us back in 1989-1995, the "abuse of process" presented by the fourth attorney, I cannot help but suspect that we have been painted with a "hit me" sign. If one has the backing of the government and a radical religious group, this is an effective "strategy" to destroy an individual - we are sinners and must be destroyed according to this attorney.

Our Virginia State Bar member lists: Those that we have retained so far. First attorney Quit after taking the case - practice a different type of law, provided a referal. Second attorney Quit claiming they were too busy, did use material provided, did not provide a referal. Third Attorney Possible conflict of interest or incompetent. Fourth Attorney A good mercenary, took the settlement with instructions for "abuse of process" which they forgot about. Fifth Attorney Deserter Sixth Attorney Did not bother contacting Social Services, doctors or therapists for a prescription fraud charge. Seventh Attorney Convinced me that I would lose, dismissing store video and claiming that police lie all the time on their reports. Eighth Attorney Legal Service whose provider law firm did not provide a referal. Ninth attorney - feel lucky ? Crusaders. Christian Crusader Attorney who wanted to destroy us because we were sinners, politically connected and was the subject of the "abuse of process". CitiBank Crusader Attorney who wants to punish my girlfriend because she was a victim of a scam. Services provided by the Virginia State Bar and its members can be viewed here. How the Virginia State Bar failed to ensure the integrity of the profession for my girlfriend

Presumption of Guilt

Reputation is NOT a factor -   We are told that "reputation" is a factor in this "market". I have been at this since 1995 when I questioned why that attorney dropped the "abuse of process", yet apparently reputation is not a factor. This failed system so saturates the market that complaints or issues are irrelevant, desperate "marks" believe anything is better than nothing and given the corruption in the Virginia courts this is true. I observed that the Virginia State Bar supports the fleecing of the public when they changed from ethical mandates around 2000, where one could question their attorneys "strategy" to the "Professional Guidelines" that protects their members from such complaints.

As it stands I have no problem identifying our experiences to the public, maybe I am wrong, one must address our issues to be able to identify where I am wrong. The expectation is that we will give up, die or become a non-issue without their accepting responsibility for their failures and fraud.