Written by They are idiots, but it’s only the end of the beginning…
There is some story to this, of course and I will be happy to tell my story. I don’t practice law, and from what I’ve seen neither do most attorneys when it comes to foreclosure defense. So firing my sorry, somewhat mad attorney was the best thing I did, well before the case was withdrawn. Mad because he really wasn’t charging me cash (long story) and who fires a ‘free’ attorney? I really don’t care he got mad, he did some blunders and would not pursue the course of action I wanted to. Finally, his Legal Assistant purposefully lied to me about some actions in my case, that the plaintiff did. So after legal blunders that could limit my available defenses and failing to notify me of important options with no confidence in him at all, firing him was easy to do. Actually it wasn’t. Twice he refused and rebuked my attempts, so finally I had to contact one of the partners in the firm and told him ‘call your boy off’.
It made me think why do we run to attorneys anyway? Well when you served with a complaint and summons you might think of scary things like “I could lose my home”. You also might think “I have 10 days to do something, what should I do?”. I actually had these thoughts 11 months before THEY* filed the complaint. I went to same attorney and told him I wanted to sue and he said “why pay $275, just wait till they sue you!”. Now I know that I should have followed my gut feeling and would have had a stronger position had I filed first.
As it worked out though, I learned more and found quite a few tricks and lots of knowledgeable people to consult with. There is no way this is over though, this was dismissed earlier this year and I’m sure THEY* will be back. I remember going to the attorney though and when he took the ‘burden’, initially, I remember thinking “Now I don’t have to worry”. If you follow this pattern you can identify that giving the attorney the case was initially reinforcing. I have given cases to attorneys, in the past, ‘the case’ and I escaped unpleasant consequence. So I was following a pattern of behavior. Now that pattern has been broken, because I’ve “LEARNED”, that giving a case to an attorney does not always mean you will escape the unpleasantness.
*THEY when referred to in this post is any bankerster, bankster attorney or anyone associated with financial institutions. At times this could include regulatory agencies such as the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC or even HUD.*
