04-28-2016, 02:53 AM
My lawyer that handled my civil case, his wife is my mom's cousin, so he's family, which means I can't be mad at him, but I'm pissed at the way things have gone down.
First of all, we had a clause in our insurance that, if someone in our family was injured by an uninsured driver, we could file suit against ourselves, which we did and obviously won. Every attorney we talked to said that they would never take a cut of that because he didn't do anything besides for negotiate a price, which wouldn't take much effort, but he took $200,000 of it. Shitty.
Then, the cemetery and the driver's parents filed a motion to have the cases against them dropped, which was stupid because all of the evidence was stacked against them, but this judge, who never should have been in on our case in the first place because his son was a friend of mine, I had even been in his house, I started over his son in football, and he saw all three of us the day of the wreck, apparently has a history of ruling against people if he's rushed. Knowing that, my lawyer rushes him after the judge goes months without ruling on it (which he was just waiting for us to do so he'd have an excuse to rule against us, and it was obvious because it was the worst ruling in history and I can prove why if anyone really questions me), so the judge rule against us and let's the driver's parents out of the case.
We say "that's fine. Let them go because the cemetery is where the money's at anyways." He doesn't listen and files an appeal, which takes months and gets denied. During that time, the cemetery's lawyer dies, but it turns out he wanted to settle, and not for anything cheap, either. The cemetery hires a new firm and this lawyer wants to go to trial.
The new lawyer is horrible and has no case but somehow the jury rules in his favor for something he didn't even argue. My lawyer messed up again.
After all this, I find out who the judge was and I ask my lawyer if he divulged about how close he was to the situation. My lawyer responds very emotional saying how a jury ruled against us and blah, blah, blah, which was true in trial, but not in this judge's ruling. I call him out on it and he doesn't answer.
Tonight, I walked a third of a mile as part of this event of the Flying Pig on Saturday and everyone is posting support and liking it, whatever. So he posts a thing about how he'd like to walk with me sometime, so I'm a little confused but I agree, so we're going back-and-forth in the comments just with friendly chatter, but then he mentions how the reason he wants to talk to me is so I can help him with a client with a TBI.
I agreed to help but I'm pissed. He littered an awesome event so he could make me feel like he was being genuine when he was really just trying to use me. I would have even been fine to do it if he had just private messaged me or even text me to set something up, but to do it in my public message like that when he was just trying to get something for himself is shady as hell.
Do I have a right to be mad about the last part if nothing else?
There's not many lawyers in the world with even an ounce of class.
First of all, we had a clause in our insurance that, if someone in our family was injured by an uninsured driver, we could file suit against ourselves, which we did and obviously won. Every attorney we talked to said that they would never take a cut of that because he didn't do anything besides for negotiate a price, which wouldn't take much effort, but he took $200,000 of it. Shitty.
Then, the cemetery and the driver's parents filed a motion to have the cases against them dropped, which was stupid because all of the evidence was stacked against them, but this judge, who never should have been in on our case in the first place because his son was a friend of mine, I had even been in his house, I started over his son in football, and he saw all three of us the day of the wreck, apparently has a history of ruling against people if he's rushed. Knowing that, my lawyer rushes him after the judge goes months without ruling on it (which he was just waiting for us to do so he'd have an excuse to rule against us, and it was obvious because it was the worst ruling in history and I can prove why if anyone really questions me), so the judge rule against us and let's the driver's parents out of the case.
We say "that's fine. Let them go because the cemetery is where the money's at anyways." He doesn't listen and files an appeal, which takes months and gets denied. During that time, the cemetery's lawyer dies, but it turns out he wanted to settle, and not for anything cheap, either. The cemetery hires a new firm and this lawyer wants to go to trial.
The new lawyer is horrible and has no case but somehow the jury rules in his favor for something he didn't even argue. My lawyer messed up again.
After all this, I find out who the judge was and I ask my lawyer if he divulged about how close he was to the situation. My lawyer responds very emotional saying how a jury ruled against us and blah, blah, blah, which was true in trial, but not in this judge's ruling. I call him out on it and he doesn't answer.
Tonight, I walked a third of a mile as part of this event of the Flying Pig on Saturday and everyone is posting support and liking it, whatever. So he posts a thing about how he'd like to walk with me sometime, so I'm a little confused but I agree, so we're going back-and-forth in the comments just with friendly chatter, but then he mentions how the reason he wants to talk to me is so I can help him with a client with a TBI.
I agreed to help but I'm pissed. He littered an awesome event so he could make me feel like he was being genuine when he was really just trying to use me. I would have even been fine to do it if he had just private messaged me or even text me to set something up, but to do it in my public message like that when he was just trying to get something for himself is shady as hell.
Do I have a right to be mad about the last part if nothing else?
There's not many lawyers in the world with even an ounce of class.
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