Yesterday in court there was quite a stir. Seem ten sets of clients showed up thinking they were getting divorced and their attorney was a no show. His office was locked up and no one was answering the phones. That much I know to be true.
Other rumors abounded that this lawyer had bounced trust account checks to clients. For those not in the the know law firms must have at least two check accounts - the firms operating account and the trust account. These accounts can never be the same account. The trust account holds a clients money only. No part of the money in that account if for use by the firm. To bounce a trust check means that somehow the clients money is not in that account - i.e. a big no no. This is also were an attorney can find lots of money to cover his own expenses and the temptation cane great, but it is unethical and illegal to use a clients money. The one sure way to get disbarred.
Anyway that is the rumor. I hoe for his sake it is not true, but I hope for the local economy he is out of business.
This guy is a hack. I have had to clean up many of the messes he has made with his $200 irreconcilable differences divorces. The going rate among most competent attorneys is $750.00-$1000.00, so this hack has been way undercharging people. I guess in hopes that shear volume will make up for it or that those clients will bring other legal matters to him. I don't know.
Anyway he is gone at least for now and hopefully it is something legal - like rehab or death that made him miss court and vanish and not something illegal.
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