Bad Lawyer?

I filed bankruptcy back in March 2000. I do not know much about the procedures so I trusted and let my lawyer do everthing. Recently I have received a letter in June 2001 from one of my old credit card company that wants me to go to court. I told my lawyer about it and he said to do not worry about it that he will take care of it and I do not have to show up in court. After the court date I received another letter in July 2001 of default final judgement saying that I did not appear in court. Also today I found out that my lawyer was suppose to give me a case number in the beginning when I gave him the full money. Another thing, I called the bankruptcy court to see if I am in their computer systems and they said no. The court told me to call the U.S. Attorney because my case could be fraud. I live in Florida and supposedly my bankruptcy lawyer filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. He looks like he is still in practice. What should I do? Please help.

I would need to know a lot more, but from your post, it looks like you hired an attorney to do a bankruptcy for you and he failed to do that.

If that is indeed the case, you need to contact the state bar association's disciplinary commission. If he did something wrong, the disciplinary commission will punish him, up to and including disbarring him.

Now, as far as the judgment against you, you can still get that discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding IF your old bankruptcy wasn't ever filed.

However, if it was filed and your lawyer failed to list that creditor, then you're SOL and will have to pay that debt.

Hope this helps!