How do you retain a lawyer officially?
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When you consult with the lawyer, it creates privilege between the two parties, but it does not make you the lawyer's client.\n\nAny reputable lawyer should provide you with a letter or statement of what they're going to do, in writing, before they start any work. They will need your mother's (or whoever is acting on her behalf's) permission to obtain records. If they try to act on your behalf before you've retained them, you'd have a case for attorney malpractice, too.
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I would first document your grievances in writing by certified mail. In many states it is illegal to publicize a social security number of someone else. Everywhere it is improper.\n\nFor the rest, the operative word in legal circles is "civility". You have, so long as you are yourself civil, a right to demand that from any lawyer and any law office.\n\nHow far you want to take it should depend on whether your financial interests rather than just your pride are compromised.\n\nAlways see your prospective lawyer in context before hiring him or her. I tell people to visit the courthouse and see them in action, talk to their clients.
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Ask your lawyer, or whoever is handling your case.
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Pound the pavement - make a lot of calls and meet with a lot of attorneys.  Your best bet for a cheap lawyer is one fresh out of lawschool just starting his/her practice.  Generally the younger the cheaper.
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Just tell your lawyer...thats all that you can really do.
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You say Mr. or Ms. unless they tell you otherwise, and 95% of them will.  If they don't come right out and say "Call me Paul" or whatever, your clue will be in how they address you unless you are much older than they are.  \n\nIf you still aren't sure, call up their assistant or secretary and ask what the attorney prefers to be called.  \n\nI am a paralegal in a big city, and it works like this:  I address clients as Mr. or Ms. up until after the first meeting with them.  If they are my age or younger, I will refer to them by their first name only after we have met.  If they are older than I am, I will continue to address the client as Mr., Mrs. or Ms. until when and if the client says "Oh, call me Grace, Chuck, Jim, etc.".\n\nWhen I deal with attorneys, they are always addressed as Mr. or Ms. (no matter what their age is).  If the attorney says "Please call me Steve", then in telephone calls or in a non-procedural setting I will.  \n\nAll attorneys are to be referred to by Mr. or Ms. in procedural settings like a deposition or in court, even if you have been told to call them "Skippy".  The setting changes the rules.  \n\nTo the people who said they are your "employee":  \n\nThey aren't.  \n\nThey are a professional who has been retained by you to provide you with a service that requires education, skill, knowledge and licensing that you yourself do not posess.  They are being paid by you to represent your interests, but they ultimately do not answer to you.  They answer to the disciplinary committee.  You are not their "boss".
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have her sign it over to another family member in frount of a lawyer
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u need to have a lawyer draw up a durable power of attourney and have person sign it to make it legal
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Get a good lawyer, ask him what to do. \n\nI had several friend talk about how having a lawyer makes all the difference or how knowing how to act in court makes all the difference. If you have a clean record, many times how well things work out depends on how you act and what you say in court.
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Contact the clerk of court and try to make arrangements that way, or you could get an attorney and they could go and ask for a continuance for you.
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You consult a lawyer.
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File an affidavit attesting to your qualifications.[Neb.Rev.St. § 25-2222] (If you don't know what this means you need to find a lawyer that can help you)
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find a very good lawyer out of yur area 1st. then keep documents of all things date and times you can go to federal court if you feel your rights were violated
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If this lawyer is indeed not doing her job, and you believe this to be a true violation of your client-attorney relationship, then you should report your lawyer to your state's American Bar Association.\n\nThere is a two-inch-thick manual of ABA approved rules of professional conduct for lawyers and if your lawyer is violating rules of diligence and competence, then you are more than entitled to get your retainer back. \n\nTechnically, a lawyer cannot spend any of the retainer money until his or her assigned tasks (for which the money was paid) have been completed. Therefore, unless your lawyer has carried out the tasks you agreed on, that money should still be there. \n\nConsider the following questions before you contact the ABA:\n(1) How long has it been since your lawyer contacted you about your case?\n(2) How complicated was the task assigned?\n(3) Does the attorney work for a firm where you could try contacting the firm first?
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Contact a local law firm and ask them to write a letter on your behalf to your former partner. I have found that the implied threat of legal action is generally low cost and sufficient to get action.\n\nBest of success.
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Get A lawyer My Hubbie got caught up w&#92;his bro well the prosucuter told me he'd get  a year, I got a lawyer he only did the time it took to get him a court date do not plea to nothig that what he did now that stuff is always on his record .besides around here they r getting reall tough on d.v
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Wow, that's a tough one, see a "good" lawyer, always be honest or it will catch up with you in the end & get as much support as you can, true love conkers all!