What is the name of your state? What is the name of your state? TN
I called my lawyer's office to ask a simple legal question (about ending child support) to my attorney's assistant/paralegal. I was told (misinformed?) by a friend that if I ask a question to the paralegal rather than attorney, it often is answered for free (or at least at a lower paralegal rate). The paralegal said she (not my attorney) would get back to me then I received an email from my attorney answering the question, and subsequently a bill for the attorney's time (.2 hr). We did have an open case with paperwork that I signed but my financial situation had drastically changed and I did not ask her to have my attorney directly contact me and bill me, otherwise if I'd known, I would've just found the answer to my question elsewhere.
I'm just wondering, is that reasonable for your attorney to email and bill you when you asked paralegal to respond and did not ask for that attorney to contact directly, intending to get a quick general answer from the paralegal/assistant?
I called my lawyer's office to ask a simple legal question (about ending child support) to my attorney's assistant/paralegal. I was told (misinformed?) by a friend that if I ask a question to the paralegal rather than attorney, it often is answered for free (or at least at a lower paralegal rate). The paralegal said she (not my attorney) would get back to me then I received an email from my attorney answering the question, and subsequently a bill for the attorney's time (.2 hr). We did have an open case with paperwork that I signed but my financial situation had drastically changed and I did not ask her to have my attorney directly contact me and bill me, otherwise if I'd known, I would've just found the answer to my question elsewhere.
I'm just wondering, is that reasonable for your attorney to email and bill you when you asked paralegal to respond and did not ask for that attorney to contact directly, intending to get a quick general answer from the paralegal/assistant?