What is the name of your state?Washington State
I sat with an attorney to draw up CCR's and easement covenents. After talking to him for an 1 1/2 hours he told be he couldn't take work. When I left he told me I owed him $100 dollars for the consultation. I paid him because it's a small town and I didn't want to start a fight with the only real estate attorney in town after just moving in.
During this time I went over all the property issues with my adjacent neighbors and he gossiped about all my neighbors. I basically concluded he was the "yiddish" word for a bad lawyer and was glad to have nothing to do with him.
Unfortunatley now, a year later, my neighbor has retained him to challenge one of the easements that I had talked to him about. This involved adverse possession that neighbor tried years ago, and now the neighbor is acting up again.
Since I confided in him during a paid consultation, does this constitute a conflict of interest? I'm guessing now the neighbor had hired him years ago for this issue, and he sat there and talked to me about it, then charge me, and sent me on my way.
His advice for the $100 was "go get another attorney". Now he is going to sue me after listening to my side of the story first hand without stopping me.
What can I do?
I sat with an attorney to draw up CCR's and easement covenents. After talking to him for an 1 1/2 hours he told be he couldn't take work. When I left he told me I owed him $100 dollars for the consultation. I paid him because it's a small town and I didn't want to start a fight with the only real estate attorney in town after just moving in.
During this time I went over all the property issues with my adjacent neighbors and he gossiped about all my neighbors. I basically concluded he was the "yiddish" word for a bad lawyer and was glad to have nothing to do with him.
Unfortunatley now, a year later, my neighbor has retained him to challenge one of the easements that I had talked to him about. This involved adverse possession that neighbor tried years ago, and now the neighbor is acting up again.
Since I confided in him during a paid consultation, does this constitute a conflict of interest? I'm guessing now the neighbor had hired him years ago for this issue, and he sat there and talked to me about it, then charge me, and sent me on my way.
His advice for the $100 was "go get another attorney". Now he is going to sue me after listening to my side of the story first hand without stopping me.
What can I do?