Girlfriend just discovered that her attorney did not file the settlement papers back in 1994. Supposedly my girlfriend was awarded half her ex's retirement when he retired. This will be considered strategy and beyond the limitations of representation. At the time we thought that this attorney was a good one, but did get concerned when they dropped the "abuse of process" action, leaving us with additional doctors bills and wondering why they dropped it. Just remember the threat from...

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Had some fun here on this forum with my post / rant / whatever How does one sue a State ?.

They claim that I cannot sue the Virginia State Bar, that the attorney population is ethical and that to collect strategy grievances would not be fair. They claim that our problem is not the "professionals" fault but our fault. Somehow our attorney deserting all their clients is our fault. A "professional" not bothering to review material, contact doctors, therapists to...

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Well we have yet to obtain any correspondence from our latest attorney. I had written a letter with a payment November 10, 2007 where I requested confirmation of the invoices and an explanation for additional payment when before the attorney left his firm we had a credit. Apparently some of the money remained with the original firm, it did not add up to the amounts described in the invoice from this attorneys new practice. The original firm is asking about the money in their account, something...

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It appears that attorneys sanctioned by the Virginia State Bar discriminate against their clients. This is based upon our attempts to address our problems by retaining members of this institution. The total number retained so far has been nine and nine have demonstrated questionable "strategy". The response from the Bar has been that the client censor the member through the courts, this requires that one retain another member. Another response has been that one has a bad case, this...

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