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Suppose an attorney had filed papers on your behalf without your authorization or knowledge (simply based on a consultation you had with them....no agreement or understanding that he would be retained as counsel, verbally or otherwise) is this legal? ethical? what consequence can result if later one does NOT retain the attorney? If you later retain the attorney does it make the initial actions on the part of attorney legally binding?
Suppose an attorney had filed papers on your behalf without your authorization or knowledge (simply based on a consultation you had with them....no agreement or understanding that he would be retained as counsel, verbally or otherwise) is this legal? ethical? what consequence can result if later one does NOT retain the attorney? If you later retain the attorney does it make the initial actions on the part of attorney legally binding?