Can a lawyer make motions to the courts without ever interviewing you about the case?

THis makes no sense to me, but probably becuase some critical information is missing.  In what type of proceeding did you "lose" your daughter?  Was it a custody case with the other parent, a child prtotection case filed by a governmental agency such as your state or county health and welfare department, or some other type of case?  If it was a child protection case, did your child end up in foster care, or were your parental rights terminated?   Did you hire the first attorney, or was a public defender appointed to represent you? What did the final order of the trial court say, and when was it entered?  When were the appeals?  Did you receive copies of the decisions in each of the appeal cases? The only situation in which what you say might make some sense if if you were represented by a public defender in a child protection case and the only issues that were legally appealable had to do with pure questions of law; but even then, your attorney should have been consulting with you at each step of the proceeding.