What do when you feel your lawyer is selling your case short so just that he can get paid?
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What do when you feel your lawyer is selling your case short so just that he can get paid?
I think that my attorney wants me to sign language agreement that’s not favorable to me.
Asked on October 18, 2010 under Business Law, Maryland
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
1) Don't sign--YOU are in charge; you're the client. If you don't believe the agreement is in your interest, then do not sign it and ask your lawyer to negotiate a different agreement--or even take the case to trial. You can't guarantee he'll be successful, but as long as you're not asking him to anything illegal or ethically improper (and asking him to push for an outcome acceptable to his client would only involve illegality or impropriety in very special, and fairly obvious, cases), he has to follow your instructions.
2) If you seriously believe the lawyer is not representing your interest, consider (strongly) changing lawyers and/or bringing an ethics complaint against the attorney after his represenation is over, if do to his actions, you cam to a bad outcome.
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