Rhonda Teacher
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I hired a horrible lawyer with a great reputation on a flat-fee basis for a custody modification case. Without going into all the details, it's almost two months since our last hearing, at which he was ordered to draw up the orders, and he is just now willing to put something together. He's trying to get my ex-husband to sign an order giving him three more days a month than the judge ordered, eliminating all classes my ex was supposed to take, eliminating a psych exam for my ex (but leaving one for me, of course), and eliminating the requirement that my ex get his license reinstated. Did I mention this is MY lawyer?!?! My ex is refusing to sign it because he knows what the judge ordered and doesn't want to tick him off by signing something so different.
The lawyer wants me to sign something so he doesn't have to represent me anymore, releasing him from the flat-fee agreement. I think he's trying to be as awful as possible so I'll agree. All of this has happened within the last few days, though he was awful already (refusing to subpeona witnesses after promising to do so, cussing at and bullying my ex, berating me in open court, not filing things he included on bills, not ever filing orders in past hearing, not even substituting himself in as attorney on the right case until nine months into it, etc, etc, etc).
I'm hearing that I should go to the bar, but how would I do that? Is there any recourse beyond just having my ex refuse to sign his weird orders and then signing the form releasing him from representing me? My ex is ticked off at the way the lawyer handled things and is 100% on my side in this matter. Is there something I should be doing here, or do I need to just let this go?
The lawyer wants me to sign something so he doesn't have to represent me anymore, releasing him from the flat-fee agreement. I think he's trying to be as awful as possible so I'll agree. All of this has happened within the last few days, though he was awful already (refusing to subpeona witnesses after promising to do so, cussing at and bullying my ex, berating me in open court, not filing things he included on bills, not ever filing orders in past hearing, not even substituting himself in as attorney on the right case until nine months into it, etc, etc, etc).
I'm hearing that I should go to the bar, but how would I do that? Is there any recourse beyond just having my ex refuse to sign his weird orders and then signing the form releasing him from representing me? My ex is ticked off at the way the lawyer handled things and is 100% on my side in this matter. Is there something I should be doing here, or do I need to just let this go?