ACMESkydiver 0 #1 June 17, 2008 I've been working with these dorks for 2 years. They suck. On the initial request-thingy that they sent to the other insurance company's attorney, they had my age wrong. They had so many misspellings and grammatical errors that they would have failed my high school English class if they submitted that document. They had a date wrong. 'Ok, they were rushed', I thought. So we get to the standard interrogatories. There are only a FEW pages, out of 38 (19 for me, 19 for hubby) that did NOT HAVE ERRORS. They had my driver's license # wrong. They had THE DATE OF THE ACCIDENT WRONG 3 TIMES -not the same wrong date three times, but they listed the date of the accident DIFFERENTLY IN THREE QUESTIONS. They had the police officer's name misspelled. They had that he completed the investigation 3 days prior to the accident occuring. They misspelled my son's name. They have Joe's birthday WAY off -month and day. They have repeated grammatical repeated grammatical errors (yes that was intentional. That's what the whole damn document is like). They rewrote Joe's answers to his interrogatories. They have him suing for loss of consortium. Geezus we never said that. They misspelled the name of the company that Joe works for. They have my employment history dates wrong. They have our owned business spelled wrong. I have had to send them EVERY document they requested 2 or 3 times because they keep losing them! WTF am I to do, seriously? They have a lower fee than other attorneys -I think it was 20% instead of 1/3rd...but WTF, seriously? How in the HELL do these people stay in business? If I ditch them now, I'll owe like $3000 for the 'work' they've done, right?? I do not have that money. I'm paying for the treatments out of pocket due to this case dragging the fuck on.~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #2 June 17, 2008 You get what you pay for. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #3 June 17, 2008 Quote You get what you pay for. We didn't hire them for the money. His partner was in the army with Joe. Partner gets deployed to Iraq, partnership is desolved, we are left with the asshole and his incompetent staff. I found out that his fee is lower when I started looking into switching attorneys... All of that aside, that wasn't the question posed.~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #4 June 17, 2008 Never said it was the question you asked. I just made a comment about the level of service that you are complaining about. Guess i forgot to click on a smiley face icon again so it was not taken so seriously. Damn smileys. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #5 June 18, 2008 It is never too late. Can the attorney. Let him file a notice of lien. Then do a fee dispute for his collection of an unearned or undeserved fee. You'll get a discount My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #6 June 18, 2008 I'm with Lawrocket on this. Just because they passed the bar, doesn't mean it was at the top of the class. If they are this incompetent, the other side will win easily, and you will have nothing to fall back on. Law is all about precise interpretation of verbage. If they are screwing up the simple stuff, what's happening that you don't know about?skydiveTaylorville.org freefallbeth@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nightingale 0 #7 June 18, 2008 QuoteIt is never too late. Can the attorney. Let him file a notice of lien. Then do a fee dispute for his collection of an unearned or undeserved fee. You'll get a discount What he said. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #8 June 18, 2008 Quote Never said it was the question you asked. I just made a comment about the level of service that you are complaining about. Guess i forgot to click on a smiley face icon again so it was not taken so seriously. Damn smileys. Quote All of that aside, that wasn't the question posed. [edit to add -->] There's mine. I'm taking things seriously 'cause I'm pissed off. But 'better to be pissed off than pissed on', as my daddy always said...~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #9 June 18, 2008 Quote Quote But 'better to be pissed off than pissed on', as my daddy always said... Not alwaysYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACMESkydiver 0 #10 June 18, 2008 Quote It is never too late. Can the attorney. Let him file a notice of lien. Then do a fee dispute for his collection of an unearned or undeserved fee. You'll get a discount Two questions on that...where would I file a fee dispute, and what if attorney #2 doesn't recover anything? Do we then owe attorney #1 whatever his lien is, or is it collected only if there is enough settlement to cover? Oh and one more question...know of any good auto accident attorneys in the state of Washington that don't list 'we deal with brain damage, loss of limb, or other serious injury only' on their website? I am clueless as to how to select a good attorney, and searching DexOnline is driving me mad.~Jaye Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #11 June 18, 2008 Quote Two questions on that...where would I file a fee dispute, and what if attorney #2 doesn't recover anything? Do we then owe attorney #1 whatever his lien is, or is it collected only if there is enough settlement to cover? I can't say in Washington. However, in Cali, the usual way for a fee dispute is to petition for a fee arbitration. If the attorney says, "You owe me X" then say, "Okay. Let's arbitrate it" and submit your form. I provide all clients with a notice of right to arbitrate. For #2, the attorney won't recover unless you do. Sometimes attorneys make a stink but in my experiences it doesn't amount to much. Quote know of any good auto accident attorneys in the state of Washington "good" and "attorney" is an oxymoron. But, no, I don't know of any. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sbhesq 0 #12 June 19, 2008 The way it typically works in an auto case is that the fee dispute has NOTHING to do with you. The fee dispute is between the new attorneys and the old attorneys. Ther are usually working on a contingency. Therefore, you get the entire portion that is set forth in the Retainer and the attorneys fight about the fee split. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #13 June 19, 2008 Indeed. I agree there. My issue is how it works elsewhere. And I don't know. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #14 June 19, 2008 I can't help you as my Personal Injury Attorney was excellent and got me a sweet settlement.I know I'm pissing you off, so I'll stop now.I would listen to lawrocket and Nightingale. They're always so smart. As for Snowhite....eh. _________________________________________ Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
