Texas Jim
06-19-2007, 08:57 PM
Lawyers, the completely un-but-nessary evil of life!!! This year I have been involved in a law suit. I have had to have three lawyers, the first who charged me $500. and did nothing almost losing the suit for me because she didn't respond soon enough. She decided to drop me as a client because she was afraid there might be a conflict of intrest.
The second attorney I gave $2600 to. Plus between her and her first friend they cost me a trip to Las Vegas, Flight was booked and room reserved, no refund!! Find out she doesn't have a brain!!All she cared about was making sure she had enough cash in her escrow account. I fired her, and had to hire a third lawyer, who charged me $4000. He though we could do the case somewhere around that +- $500.
June 7th, the case comes to trial, my Lawyer cleans the table with the plaintiff. I the defendant; and fairly happy about the results with what I see of the trial. The plaintiff comes off as a lier, and his attorney looks like a fool.
The results of the judges ruling wouldn't be available for a week to ten days.
Thursday, I get a bill from my attorney that looks like he charged me a total of $7032, but after he took the money out of trust that I had previously given him, it said I had a zero balance. I was wrong about that!
Last Saturday, I got the Judges' decision. it awarded the plaintiff $7000 of the $24,000 they were seeking, plus an area that I can not compete in bonding. (They were asking for an area that was origionally 99 miles from where I live, for two years from March 23,2006.) And a hand full of counties of Adair, Madison, Union, Clark, Polk, and Dallas. for a one year period, from May 11th 2007-2008.
Now with all of the information I now have; I should of just stayed out of the business until next March and then went to work for someone. I wouldn't have had to pay lawyers $9632 dollars, plus court cost and the jerk's attorney fees.
Plus the guy I am currently working for doesn't know if he is going to take me back, because he hired me to work the area that I am restricted from.
I don't really know what I am going to do? The new person tried to tell me that he didn't know that this was going on till I got served with paper's, which I know for a fact he did, he made me jump through every hoop he could, before I went to work for him.
The reason, I don't work for the first guy is because he is insecure and thought I was after his wife. Of course this guy was always on the make for anything in a skirt. I live my life by the golden rule!!! I didn't want his wife!!! What ever he did when he was away from home is his own business. It's not my place to tell.
Boy, did I get screwed and didn't even get a kiss!!! A guy tries to live his life decent and this is what you get!!! I have never broken anyone's heart, I had it done to me a time or two!
I have always respected my parents!! They must think some piece of work I've turned out to be...
I live a good chunk of my life, (ages 15-41) with a severe medical issue, not one that would kill you (now that seems like a good option,) but one that always made me miss a large part of the year getting treatments and healthy again!! Plus the fact that I can no longer get medical insurance. So it just keeps comming...Good karma or bad, just doesn't seem right.
What the He!! is a person to do??? I know that every day things could get worse, but in all honestly, I feel that I can no longer put up with all of the negative things I have been dealt... The load is getting heavy!! I am getting tired, and don't know when I will be able to pick it up? TJ
The second attorney I gave $2600 to. Plus between her and her first friend they cost me a trip to Las Vegas, Flight was booked and room reserved, no refund!! Find out she doesn't have a brain!!All she cared about was making sure she had enough cash in her escrow account. I fired her, and had to hire a third lawyer, who charged me $4000. He though we could do the case somewhere around that +- $500.
June 7th, the case comes to trial, my Lawyer cleans the table with the plaintiff. I the defendant; and fairly happy about the results with what I see of the trial. The plaintiff comes off as a lier, and his attorney looks like a fool.
The results of the judges ruling wouldn't be available for a week to ten days.
Thursday, I get a bill from my attorney that looks like he charged me a total of $7032, but after he took the money out of trust that I had previously given him, it said I had a zero balance. I was wrong about that!
Last Saturday, I got the Judges' decision. it awarded the plaintiff $7000 of the $24,000 they were seeking, plus an area that I can not compete in bonding. (They were asking for an area that was origionally 99 miles from where I live, for two years from March 23,2006.) And a hand full of counties of Adair, Madison, Union, Clark, Polk, and Dallas. for a one year period, from May 11th 2007-2008.
Now with all of the information I now have; I should of just stayed out of the business until next March and then went to work for someone. I wouldn't have had to pay lawyers $9632 dollars, plus court cost and the jerk's attorney fees.
Plus the guy I am currently working for doesn't know if he is going to take me back, because he hired me to work the area that I am restricted from.
I don't really know what I am going to do? The new person tried to tell me that he didn't know that this was going on till I got served with paper's, which I know for a fact he did, he made me jump through every hoop he could, before I went to work for him.
The reason, I don't work for the first guy is because he is insecure and thought I was after his wife. Of course this guy was always on the make for anything in a skirt. I live my life by the golden rule!!! I didn't want his wife!!! What ever he did when he was away from home is his own business. It's not my place to tell.
Boy, did I get screwed and didn't even get a kiss!!! A guy tries to live his life decent and this is what you get!!! I have never broken anyone's heart, I had it done to me a time or two!
I have always respected my parents!! They must think some piece of work I've turned out to be...
I live a good chunk of my life, (ages 15-41) with a severe medical issue, not one that would kill you (now that seems like a good option,) but one that always made me miss a large part of the year getting treatments and healthy again!! Plus the fact that I can no longer get medical insurance. So it just keeps comming...Good karma or bad, just doesn't seem right.
What the He!! is a person to do??? I know that every day things could get worse, but in all honestly, I feel that I can no longer put up with all of the negative things I have been dealt... The load is getting heavy!! I am getting tired, and don't know when I will be able to pick it up? TJ