In Michigan your are entitled to a copy of your attorneys file on your case, but you can be required to pay reasonable copying costs. On the other hand, if you don't want the entire file, but only some select documents, most Michigan attorneys would provide you same @ no cost (although they still have the option of charging reasonable copy costs for any documents they supply). The exception is as to any documents that you "owned" and supplied to the attorney, those are yours and you are entitled to have them returned @ no charge. You should note that most attorneys do not routinely send clients a copy of all papers/documents in their files or that they file on behalf of a client - at least not unless the client requests same.
Answered on Jun 13th, 2013 at 10:07 AM