Are there any lawyers on that can give me some advice? my idiot son got in trouble, got arrested and was ROR, no bail. I put in a call to his court appointed attorney to see...
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what the chances would be that the charges would be dropped, ask a few questions. This was last week, I called him twice and he never called me back. I sent up an appointment w/ an attorney, DS went to meet him yesterday and today, this afternoon I made a payment and retained his services. I did not sign the retainer agreement. Well, two hours later the legal aid attorney called me to tell me the defendant was dropping the charges. Is there anyway I can get out of having the other attorney representing my son? They already charged my credit card??
posted October 17th, 2017 at 4:35pm in
Toddler
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- Probably not. 10-17-2017 4:36pm
- I had an attorney on a 3000 retainer..he returned whatever portion we didn't use (which was most of it) 10-17-2017 4:36pm
- well the thing is, he will appear in court w/ ds, but i could just have his legal aid attorney do that instead. i mean, this is pretty easy. do you think i should negotiate w...(more) 10-17-2017 4:37pm
- Same here, not a criminal attorney. He'd had the retainer for years until a statute of limitations ran out and we didnt need a lawyer 10-17-2017 4:39pm
- the attorney has to refund you whatever is left on your retainer balance 10-17-2017 4:37pm
- but they told me the fee was the fee, that would include him going to court. i don't know. i guess i'll have to talk with them tomorrow. 10-17-2017 4:38pm
- tell him the charges were dropped and you no longer require his services 10-17-2017 4:39pm
- i think a lawyer still has to appear in court with my ds though. i believe he still has to show up at court. 10-17-2017 4:41pm
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