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fishnchef · 01-14-2009, 11:36 PM

In regards to the legal representation, I had posted this on another thread. Just to verify my predicament. Thanks J.

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Boy oh boy. What a day I had on Wednesday. To make an hour long blah blah blah fest a short story, I will tell it like this. As many of you know, I have spent the last week or so preparing for this meeting. I am the type of person who NEEDS to be informed. I have spent time on the internet, on this page, on several forums, and on the phone with several people from this site(you know who you are and again I thank you) and elsewhere. I spent several hours typing all of my questions in an organized manner and also typing an addendum to the IME report given by the insurance company's doctor. I was prepared and I was not going to forget anything so long as I had it on paper, right?

My wife took me to meet the attorney (the list has the questions I could think of before hand and my wife has the questions I should think of while in the meeting, I can't seem to think or speak very clearly at times). We arrived at five minutes before the meeting is supposed to start and tell the receptionist about the appointment. "Wait here for just a minute. I'll go back and tell him you're here." So we wait. Ten minutes pass and she directs us to the conference room where we sit. Ten more minutes the door opens. Again the receptionist, "He wants to speak with you for a minute." I think 'this is odd, because I would like to speak to him too. That is kinda why I scheduled a meeting with him'. She picks up the phone and hands it to me.

Now I don't know what all of your impressions were, but I was under the impression that 'let me go back and get him' meant that he was back in his office. Not let me go back and get him on the phone. After a quick attempt to, 'lets just chat really quick on the phone', I averted. He tells me that he was leaving court and running late, which I later caught him contradicting himself by saying that he was at home. All on my recorder by the way. Over an hour later the meeting finally started.

To sum it all up, I will tell you what happened in the first two minutes, the rest was alot more of this. I started by handing him a copy of the list of questions that I had compiled. As he was flipping through the pages (not caring about the text on them was made rather obvious) I started with point number one.

"In the time since I hired you over a year ago, I have talked to you two times totalling less than an hour. I have made all contact with the paralegal and spoken with her for 20 minutes total. You told me the last time we spoke and I quote 'from here on out we will be walking in LOCKSTEP'".

He paused for a moment and stumbled over the papers for a second before saying, "okay, here's the problem Jeremy.... Uh, at some point in your treatment you were going to treat with a different doctor, you wanted to switch doctors. You wanted to treat with Dr. Lockstadt. (puzzled, I looked at him and told him no) You were going to treat with Dr Lockstadt! (no?) Somehow, between you and your doctor and your nurse case manager you were wanting to treat with Dr. Lackstot. (I inform him that that is the first time I had ever heard that name in my life, my wife concurs) Look, if you didn't..........well, I might be confusing you with someone else (he flips through some of his file) Well then, why did you bring up Dr. Lackstop?(I say "I didn't.") Yes, you just did bring him up and I am wondering why. (again but more harshly to get the point across this time, "NO! I DID NOT!!) Okay well let's just go on to the next question then....."

Are you thinking WOW like I was? Now I listen to this blah blah blah for nearly and hour and like this I could not get him to answer the questions that I had taken time to organize and type. fifty minutes in, he puts the list in my file and scoots back from the table. I sit in astonishment at the nerve of this guy. He says that he has another meeting and begins to bring the meeting to an end. My blood is boiling at this point and I'm trying to contain myself. I simply forced myself up out of my chair and stumble forward a little when he says, "I've got your best interest at hand (this as I stumble forward and he pats me on the shoulder) Trust me Old Man. Ha ha ha." I didn't find this too funny and figured that it was in my best interest to leave right then (before I end up in jail).

I leave and am in some pretty bad pain from all the stress of the situation. I get to my destination and kick back on the couch at my cousin's house down the road from my own. I thought the original acusations of Dr lachstadt was unreal so I decided to let my cousin hear it. We listen to the first two minutes of the recording.

I don't know if anyone reading this caught it in the text but I didn't catch it in real life. Remember his quote that I quoted to him in the first question" walking in LOCKSTEP"? Anyone want to tell me why I brought up seeing Dr Lachstadt, Dr Lochstadt, Dr Lackstot, Dr Lackstop?

Anyone know what I am financially liable for when I find a new attorney and let him know that I am no longer in need of his services?