I think I have a strong case, but I'm on the defensive and would like
to know the lawyer I hire knows their stuff as well as the other side.
I need it to cover my area -- Los Angeles -- and this area of law --
elder conservatorships, and I am googling this instead of going
somwhere obvious because I would like an attorney who has won against
the law firm I'm enduring too. This sounds a little more vicious than
it is -- I'm told this sort of case is always lost, so I don't want to
waste my time talking to folks who're going to say "no."

Still, the chances are, I'm wasting my time, as well as my Mom's
money, so if you have special insights to save me grief, like that
once my attorney's name is seen in a document, they'll outsource the
work, etc., I'm listening.

Extra tip if you can find a Google answers-like service with a track
record for this.

Scotty, you will be familiar with this information, but maybe others here are not.
Horrid problem!

http://www.justiceforfloridaseniors.org/

Have you tried searching with:  aarp conservatorship cases

Here is one site that might have some information for you:

http://www.preventelderabuse.org/communities/best.html

with a further link to:  www.wiseseniors.org

I wonder if it is possible to access a website that shows these cases
in the LA area, from which you could find cases involving that law
firm.

Good luck, Myoarin

I will very likely cancel this question now, because I did my court
appearance, and was duly creamed.

For those who may wonder about the particulars, I went out of my way
to find a lawyer, and had precious little success. I prayed a lot and
found a fiduciary who was more to my and my Mom's liking, I believe. I
am going to paint myself as wearing a white hat in this picture.

I was under the gun to get someone, because adult protective services
and family services I have long known specialize in paratrooper
rescues. These have even been dramatized a little on TV. I had two
days' notice for the first court appearance, and a month for the
second, while at the same time caring for my Mom.

So, I found a fiduciary who knew two attorneys, one of whom had turned
down the job as too much of a headache.

She got him back on board, and then worked with my sister, believing
me incapable of speaking for my case. Honestly, this floored me, but I
have such contempt for the system as it is, maybe she felt I couldn't
hide it? Her belief after being in this business for decades, I think,
was that I had little to no chance of a happy result unless my sister
spoke for us and urged for a change of conservator, to her.

I honestly don't think this was money-motivated, as we're in the same
Church, but it looks like I've been wrong in my life.

My sister said what she was told to say, which sounded pretty hollow
to me, and was argued down, though obviously she didn't have time to
arrange a lawyer's presence, and lacked the mental wherewithal to
point this out. She was trying to get a continuance. She wasn't
permitted one. Not even a crappy continuance.

Scotty,
I for one sure appreciate your giving an update. One reads a question,
recognizes the personal problem  - in some just a material interest - 
and then the folks just disappear, even worse, when a clarification or
comment seems to have been an answer to their  2 digit question.
Thanks, Myoarin