What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Iowa
Regarding Polk County Iowa:
As it relates to legal malpractice: What is 'timely' and what are the proper procedures?
Judgment granted by court assessing me (Def.) the plaintiffs 'lost wages' for his taking time off to attend defendant's deposition. Plaintiff's attendance was not required, only optional on his part.
Several issues:
Failure of my attorney to object to plaintiff's claim for lost wages and other costs and his further compounding the problem by not protecting my interests in an action to appeal said judgment.
I did not receive any notice to appear at the court hearing during which said judgment was granted and, when questioned, my attorney claimed that I'd received notice of the hearing. I explained that I hadn't and he failed to provide evidence a notice was ever sent to me.
Tangentially, my attorney knew of my anxiety related to the lawsuit and deposition. He also knew that at my deposition, I arrived after taking three doses of my anti-anxiety medication. Then, I find out that because of that alone, being known to him, he should have had the deposition rescheduled.
Finely, should the courts and public record related to said deposition be quashed?
Regarding Polk County Iowa:
As it relates to legal malpractice: What is 'timely' and what are the proper procedures?
Judgment granted by court assessing me (Def.) the plaintiffs 'lost wages' for his taking time off to attend defendant's deposition. Plaintiff's attendance was not required, only optional on his part.
Several issues:
Failure of my attorney to object to plaintiff's claim for lost wages and other costs and his further compounding the problem by not protecting my interests in an action to appeal said judgment.
I did not receive any notice to appear at the court hearing during which said judgment was granted and, when questioned, my attorney claimed that I'd received notice of the hearing. I explained that I hadn't and he failed to provide evidence a notice was ever sent to me.
Tangentially, my attorney knew of my anxiety related to the lawsuit and deposition. He also knew that at my deposition, I arrived after taking three doses of my anti-anxiety medication. Then, I find out that because of that alone, being known to him, he should have had the deposition rescheduled.
Finely, should the courts and public record related to said deposition be quashed?