How do you deal with an elderly attorney who is criminally insane that
is a
predator of the elderly women (grandmothers), forging financial
documents, who has falsely
accused
and framed a victim's family member of the elderly abuse the attorney
perpetrated, and because of a trial where the family member was
abandoned by
an attorney the day before trial and therefore unrepresented at a
trial, the
elderly attorney convinced a Judge in a Florida court that the family
member is making everything up?

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Request for Question Clarification by siliconsamurai-ga on 02 Aug 2002 08:17 PDT

Have you already sought advice from the State Bar Association?

Warren R. Trazenfeld, PA Is a Miami attorney whose practice focuses on
legal malpractice cases. His address and phone numbers are on his web
site.
Florida Legal Malpractice website
http://www.floridalegalmalpractice.com/contact.html


A.J. Comparetto, Esq. 
http://www.florida-malpractice-law.com/attorney.htm 
(click the link at the bottom of the page to have a Florida
Malpractice Lawyer review your claim).

This is from his web site Florida Malpractice Law
http://www.florida-malpractice-law.com/index.html
 
"Attorney Malpractice in Florida
 
 How to know when a lawyer has committed malpractice.
A lawyer who fails to provide reasonably competent representation
obligations is guilty of malpractice. While proving that an attorney
had a conflict of interest or otherwise violated his or her fiduciary
obligations may be straightforward, proving an attorney failed to
provide reasonably competent representation is more difficult. Lawyers
can disagree on whether a particular course of action is reasonably
competent.  However, there are some behaviors that clearly go beyond
the bounds of competent representation. An attorney who simply forgets
a filing deadline and permits the statute of limitations to expire,
thereby destroying a client's cause of action, is an obvious candidate
for malpractice.

It is  easy to prove malpractice if an attorney misses a deadline or
gives clearly erroneous advice. But proving malpractice can be more
difficult in cases where an attorney pursues a particular strategy
that ends up injuring the client. In suing the attorney, the client
must show that his or her injury is related to the attorney's actions.
This may entail showing what would have occurred had the attorney
chosen a different course of action."


The Law Offices of Cytryn and Santana, P.A. will handle legal
malpractice if the damages are at least $100,000. Address and phone
numbers are on the web site,
http://www.personalinjuryfirm.com/mal_legal.html

This information is from their website
"Lawyer malpractice may be just as commonplace as medical malpractice.
However, it may be more difficult to find help to file an attorney
malpractice lawsuit than most other types of cases. Our position is
that if the value of the damages is at least $100,000, we would
consider reviewing your case for attorney malpractice or lawyer
negligence. A typical error made by attorneys is failing to file a
lawsuit on time, resulting in the client's case being dismissed. We
are willing to review cases of attorney negligence in any area of the
law."

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Clarification of Answer by wlk115-ga on 02 Aug 2002 10:48 PDT

Sorry... I seem to have missed the beginning of my answer when I
copied it...

I am not a legal expert of any kind, but, I think you may have 2
separate cases here, the first attorney who brought the charges and
the second attorney who abandoned the defendant the day before the
trial.
It can be hard to find an attorney to go against another attorney but
I found 1 who's practice focuses on it and 2 who will consider it.

I sympathize with your problem and, although you may be 100% correct,
I strongly suggest that you not use terms such as "criminally insane"
(unless this is actually a matter of public record) if you take this
to another lawyer or the state bar association, or even if you discuss
this with anyone where you identify the individual. That is definately
an actionable comment, especially about a professional. Since you
don't identify the individual here by name I don't see any problem
with using those terms here just for emphasis but you should be
cautious, especially when dealing with a lawyer.

There are always a few lawyers who specialize in problems with other
lawyers. There aren't many but perhaps another researcher could locate
one for you in Florida.

out of curiousity, mr. samurai - where do you go if you have a problem
with the laywers who deal with other problem lawyers? :)

calebu2-ga

calebu2 - That's a good question in its own right and highly
situation-dependent.

I certainly think wlk115-ga gave a fine answer to the actual question
posed.

Me personally? If I had exhausted the normal channels I would contact
a reporter. That's one of the functions of the press in the U.S., to
step in and try to show people where problems exist which can't be
corrected in the normal fashion through the government.

The First Amendment is number one for a very good reason, to help
protect reporters when they tackle sticky situations involving
powerful people. Although people tend to (very rightly) get upset with
the press over some excesses - where else are you going to turn when
all else fails? Believe me, if it's a good story some reporter will
tackle it and expose it to the light even if they have no personal
power to actually correct the situation. Once a lot of people know
about a problem it often gets solved by the same government employees
or professional associations who should have taken care of it in the
first place.