My attorney told me he filed a motion to compel on one of the defendants {I had two} in my civil lawsuit. He told me he gave me a 10K discount, he promised if I paid half my bill he would disregard the other half. He promised to keep the other defendant in the case. He did not turn over our evidence to either opposing attorneys. Had this lawyer for 14 months never met him face to face we were 30 min. away from each other. Paid him 30K He did not do one thing I hired him to do, for example, get bank records, LLC records, documents from the franchisor, prove my partner scammed and conned me out of my half of the business. I invested 100k in a franchise, equipment 35K, bought a work van etc. I hired him, he promised he could do the job.
Then I get an attorney I knew nothing about because he was actually in New Mexico I thought he was here in Texas. After 3 months he fires this attorney, then he became my attorney for 3 months, then he hires another attorney and an office person I knew nothing about them either, Now I am paying two attorneys and this office person. I never heard from either attorney, never heard what was going on in the lawsuit. My partner committed insurance fraud, got us kicked out of a money-making co. did no payroll, lied to IRS, stole money out of my personal bank acct. no fiduciary duty, paid me like I was a ten-dollar an hour employee. You name it partner did it my attorney knew it but did absolutely nothing. Both attorneys withdrew 1 month before trial because I did not want to let the second defendant out of the lawsuit he lies to the judge why he was withdrawing.
I was given 30 days to find a new attorney no way was this going to happen I asked for another 30 days the opp attorneys said they had to agree with this continuance and they would not so I would not get more time I later found out this is not true. I had to go pro-se I later discovered since I was an LLC business owner I had to have representation. No one told me this so I was forced to settle out of court. Of course, took a huge loss. I also found out the attorney I hired was under some type of disciplinary from 15' to 17'
