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Lawyer told us he had federal experience when he did not. Failed to file damages on behalf of spouse. Failed to depose our witnesses but rather waited for US Attorney to do so. Performed absolute minimum requirements after finding out their cut of settlement would only be 10%. The result of these actions caused us to file bankruptcy due to medical bills and our home was lost in foreclosure.
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Its possible, but some of what you described is not malpractice, such as waiting for US Attorney to schedule depositions. You also run into the issue when there are limited values paid for legal fees on a case, such as the Federal Tort Claims Act. While such statutes are touted as "saving consumers money", they typically simply limit the quality and quality of the lawyering work that can be devoted to such claims or simply disenfranchises clients from lawyers. As you may imagine, no lawyer is going to spend $100,000.00 in legal billing time to recover a $10,000.00 fee. A good example of this is at the heart of the Florida Medical Malpractice provisions with a 10% fee. Touted as reducing legal fees from evil greedy lawyers, it was REALLY an effort to drive lawyers out of the med-mal arena so greedy doctors and hospital could keep thier money, since virtually no lawyers would take such cases and serious injured people simply "take one for the team" and are now crying foul (rightfully) that doctors can mangle people with impunity unless the damages are death ro catastrophic. In any event, you will need to retain a lawyer to review the case and figure out what the lawyers did or did not do and whether and how this is related to the damages you referenced.
Answered on Apr 29th, 2015 at 8:15 AM
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