Appeal Lynn
9 Mar 2014 #1
Long story short:
Appeal (non criminal) document imminently due.
Lawyer has been paid to produce a case appeal document for court but produced only a document with errors or incomplete. His name is at the top of the document.
The deadline looms. Lawyer has not responded to communications and is unreachable by phone (off, disconnected, whatever).
Can the defendant make the necessary corrections to the document and submit it directly to the court if they delete the lawyer's name from the document and also make it clear that they are submitting the document as defendant instead of the lawyer?
Quick additional question:
Is there a legal way to get the money back from the lawyer who was paid in full to write and submit the appeal document just a few days ago but only wrote part of it before vanishing?
Appeal (non criminal) document imminently due.
Lawyer has been paid to produce a case appeal document for court but produced only a document with errors or incomplete. His name is at the top of the document.
The deadline looms. Lawyer has not responded to communications and is unreachable by phone (off, disconnected, whatever).
Can the defendant make the necessary corrections to the document and submit it directly to the court if they delete the lawyer's name from the document and also make it clear that they are submitting the document as defendant instead of the lawyer?
Quick additional question:
Is there a legal way to get the money back from the lawyer who was paid in full to write and submit the appeal document just a few days ago but only wrote part of it before vanishing?