Why should I contact the state bar?

Is it a requirement that I contact the state bar regarding my attorney's short commings? If not, what good will this do ME to tell? My case was dismissed due to his negligence and is now a dead issue. There is no action that I am aware of that will change that fact. So, other than alerting his peers of the problems he has created, what purpose does my reporting to the bar serve? If their involvement does nothing to help ME in recovering MY losses why in the world bother? An effort to simply cause him to be disiplined gets me nowhere.

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I found a use for reporting my ex.Attny
I found out that he is on very ,very thin ice w/ the bar. like SUSPENDED ! for two years. Anyway. While negotiating a settlement w/ him ,on my own, I made reference to the fact that I had not yet gone to the Bar and that I did'nt see that I stood to gain by doing so. For some reason he took this as a threat and rebuked ME as making an uneithical move that he quite frankly resented. I again explained that my professionalism was not the issue and that the 3 years I waited for him to act and the 200k that I was out because of it Pissed ME OFF! So I retained a PRO ,went to the Bar and now He is wondering how to pay me off w/ no insurance or busness to generate my settlement or Judgement. I am not ashamed.

Check out the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. They will take complaints about lawyers in terms of negligence or breach of fiduciary duty to client. They also have a fund in most if not all states paid for by the lawyer's registration fees that will pay out for the wronged client. Now you must realize that the only normal way to take a lawyer to task is to sue them for malpractice. If the amount is large enough, you might entice a malpractice lawyer to take it on ... malpractice damage is often trebled as a means of stopping lawyers from failing in their duties.

Unfortunately it doesn't always keep lawyers from making fatal mistakes to the point that they lose winable lawsuits. If it was a case of incompetence or untruthfulness, you have a case. If it was a questionable verdict either way, you still might just let the malpractice attorney see what he thinks. Just be sure you don't just go to the ordinary streetcorner lawyer. You need one who has specialized for many years... probably ought to look for one in his 50s or older with some younger ones in the firm. If they take your case on contingency, you will lose 30-40% of the resulting award, but that is still better off than you are now. If it is a trebled award, you could be collecting from your first lawyer's insurance company. They usually want to settle if the case looks firm.

Good luck to you.

Really?? There is an "Attorney Registration and disciplinary commission in "most if not all states"?

REALLY? Great.

Name five states that have an organization called "Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission".

Isn't it true that only ONE state has an "Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission"?

Unless the poster is in Illinois, he/she is going to get very frustrated looking for "Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission" in, oh, say Florida.

Also, you state that the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission handles negligence, but per the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission's own web site, NEGLIGENCE is something that is NOT eligible for payment. Quote from their web site: ARDC | Client Protection Program


Your claim will not be eligible for payment if:

• your loss was the result of negligence

Thanks for the list, Grace. I've been looking for the bar association function in the states I think a certain lawyer might move to after she is disbarred. So now I have a link for just about all of them where I can report the dishonest activities in which she was involved in Illinois... before she was disbarred. It pays to get the information ahead of when you need it.

If this poster were upset about her situation, she might contact another attorney and explain what happened. When given proof of a wrongful situation, some of these situations require that the next attorney turn in the offender... in my case, she did it because she went along with the opposition clearly by NOT investigating areas of the case she didn't believe and therefore didn't understand. When we figured out what she didn't understand, and then told her the background, I think she was embarrassed that she believed the other side who was a dirty lawyer whose first engagement in this situation had a fraud intention. But that's what you get when you go into business with your lawyer without a separate lawyer to represent you (the lawyer told the judge he didn't need a separate lawyer to start the LLC company... and the judge bought it! Smacks of collusion!)... If he had only known that powerful attorneys don't necessarily get that way by following the law... but then he knew they were stealing the business of another client by offering him a partnership. He could leave and so could others, but they couldn't ethically make him the offer... that is why they are being disbarred... but we think they will ask questions of the lawyers when they testify in their own behalf next week and these questions will have to be answered because the truth of his allegations has been proven by documented evidence of bank transactions, cooked books, fraudulent buyout, etc. If they lie, they are without defense. If they tell the truth, they will be admitting felonies. ARDC says it is going to be a LOT worse than they initially predicted... and they said disbarment to begin with, so where does that leave them? In Jail.-- Of course that is just my positive attitude speaking.

I hope it works out the way you want it to.

Thank you for your input. The case is indeed one that the complaint regards negligence. If interested please read my case presention

He was just posturing. HE can't threaten YOU. So he rebukes you and calls YOU UNETHICAL? He should resent it long after he has to pay for his misdeeds. Good for you for getting the job done so he doesn't think he can do this again without consequences. Just keep after his assets.

On reading my own reason for being interested in malpractice, I realized that it didn't make much sense. But the net of it is that my son's lawyer/partners are in the final weeks before their disbarment before the Illinois Supreme Court. I understand that their current disbarment procedure is only about what they did to his former employer when they offered him a partnership to start a similar company when they were still the attorney of record for both the employer and for my son. They have successfully put him under an injunction for 2.5 years so far, and never responded to interrogatories put to them by his attorneys. When his attorneys filed a cross complaint against them, they complained that it was too late, that he had all that prior time to enter charges and had not (bull). Then they filed immediate violation action and claimed he had taken over their website (one of their own disgruntled employees had) and had used the logo of his former company (which was only a similar logo). Then they called him for a deposition. Ten lawyers were in the room for a barrage of questions that he answered every time with responses that brought out their frauds, theft, blackmail, extortion, perjury in the injunction hearing. Six of those lawyers in that deposition called the ARDC the day after the dep to report to the ARDC their own objections to what his attorney/partners had done to him until he dissociated. The ARDC lawyer then called my son and told him he was their star witness for his former employer's case and that he should take care of himself (as in "never be alone", as I have counseled him for a very long time that he was the only reason they were being disbarred) but that his deposition had pointed out that HIS case against them would be proceeding as soon as he had some kind of completion to his legal cases against them. He also has a malpractice case against them. It will probably be three years of way too much legal expenses and living expenses, but just gettiing rid of the vermin is a relief.