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6/16/2009 1:59:56 PM

even worse, if you get caught dwlr it's pretty much a mandatory trip downtown. the laws changed during last years sessions. your tags will also be flagged so that any time a leo runs it something comes back stating that the registered owner is revoked/suspended. if you think that cop a few cars back at the stoplight isn't running every single tag in sight hoping to pick up on something, you'd be wrong.

6/16/2009 10:47:26 PM

lol. give me your info and ill look the stuff up at the court house. tell you if they ever went and its called and failed or if they handled it and forgot to pay court costs.

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"wrong. and no, i don't give a fuck that you work for a lawyer. you're wrong. gone are the days of any fta warrants going into file 13 and/or months going by before you hear anything about it. sure, you might get 2-3 weeks before you become a priority, but you can bet your ass the warrant has been issued well before that, no matter the initial offense. "

haha. wrong. and no, i dont give a fuck if you care what lawyer i work for, i'm not wrong. a speeding ticket fta is not going to have an warrant issued for a while. when you dont show for court if the ticket is in 1a they seperate the called and failed cases by last name. if its any other floor they do it by charge, the clerk then goes through the called and failed box and pulls all the dwlr and issues warrants then no insurance, then the next "worse" type of charge and so on

i am not saying it wont ever happen it just wont happen right away, lots and lots of circumstances.

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"they are probably busy. you are not their only client."

not saying she being like this, but we have tons of people like this and they are the worse

6/17/2009 11:09:27 AM

the worse

6/17/2009 11:35:41 AM

Is it not common practice to call your client, send them an e-mail, or mail them a letter so that they know that everything is complete? Or do you just expect them to pay you and move on and never be curious about what happened?

I have every right to be concerned if I get a letter in the mail saying my license will be revoked, and to question what it actually was that my lawyer did for me. I am not one of those clients, I am a person with common sense who purchased a service and did not get what was agreed upon by both parties.

Perhaps it's the ineptitude of the lawyer's office employees, and the carelessness of the courts that causes us clients to seem like those people.

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM. Reason : / \]

6/17/2009 12:43:30 PM

I'm not reading all of this, but have you still not heard from the lawyer's office? Can't you just drive your happy but down there?

6/17/2009 12:55:59 PM

after i talked to the da's office and sent one final email to my lawyer's office, i got a call from them. They initially said it was being taken care of but I FINALLY got them to tell me what happened. They say it was an error by the clerk by not correctly filing my notice of appeals. They also said it's being taken care of (WHATEVER THAT MEANS).

Why couldn't they have told me about the clerical error the past 3 weeks I've been calling them?

6/17/2009 1:00:15 PM

because they have 120398 people that call every damn time they get something continued and it's easier to just ignore all of those calls and let them figure it out when a final outcome is reached

6/17/2009 1:03:10 PM

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"let them figure it out when a final outcome is reached"

What?

Is this attitude the same in every profession?
If I go to get tested for, lets say, strep throat should I just try to figure out the results myself?
And if I take my car to get looked at and they tell me everything's ok except my car will not work in 2 weeks, should I try to figure out why myself?
What if I buy a diamond ring and when I pick it up from the store and there's no diamond, should I be expected to figure out what happened to it?
If I order a pizza and get chinese food delivered, is it my responsibility to determine why that happened?
If I go get an eye exam, should I be expected to know the results?
If I hire a lawyer to represent me with my traffic ticket and later get a letter saying my license will be revoked for said ticket, should I have to figure out what happened while he/she was at court?

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM. Reason : ]

6/17/2009 1:22:20 PM

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"If I hire a lawyer to represent me with my traffic ticket and later get a letter saying my license will be revoked for said ticket, should I have to figure out what happened while he/she was at court? "

It's simply, really. You get a letter in the mail saying your license will be revoked...and you go beat their door down and demand an answer. You don't call for 3 weeks getting no response and then go fuss about it on the internet. That's just stupid. Why in the holy hell would you not storm the lawyer's office immediately? You sit on the letter for 3 weeks while you call and call and call and get no answer? You deserve to have your license revoked. I don't like the thought of your kind of stupidity driving the same roads as me.

6/17/2009 1:26:46 PM

^^i didnt say i agreed with it or anything else..but that's how it is

6/17/2009 1:47:02 PM

i do not see why this is so complicated

they should not need more than one business day to let you know the status of it....go ahead and name the attorney

i have used probably six or seven lawyers over the years and even the shittiest one would get back to me, actually the shitter ones usually responded faster, the good ones were busy but would always have a secretary or paralegal call back

6/17/2009 1:48:28 PM

^^^AT LEAST SHE DOESN'T WORK AT SAM'S CLUB

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM. Reason : ]

6/17/2009 1:51:11 PM

lol, only time we dont tell what the exact problem is, is if it's our fault. if its a clerk's fault i will gladly tell you and even show you.

and once my boss handles a case he sends letters personally or call the client. sometimes in a timely matter sometimes within a few weeks. he is a busy man afterall.

so who was the attorney?

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"the good ones were busy but would always have a secretary or paralegal call back "

exactly if you call ill tell you it was handled and my boss will be sending you a letter.

[Edited on June 17, 2009 at 4:46 PM. Reason : fvjhgjklh]

6/17/2009 4:45:25 PM

bump.

2/18/2010 2:39:24 PM

Oh goody.

2/18/2010 2:41:09 PM

Thank you CassTheSass!
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"really it just sounds like you are "one of those" clients."

OH REALLY?!

This problem has become much worse. My license has been suspended. I tried to buy a car yesterday and couldn't get new insurance!

After discussing with the lawyer at 6:30am, it appears that there is an fta out on me and that he'll have to represent me in misdemeanor court on Monday to take care of it all...

... after all is said and done, is it reasonable for me to ask the lawyer's office to provide me with proof that my license suspension has been lifted, so that I may forward it to Geico? Or is this something I should get myself?

2/18/2010 2:54:16 PM

...You mean that after two pages, you still didn't get a resolution 8 months ago?

2/18/2010 2:56:08 PM

^ Correct.

2/18/2010 3:18:09 PM

dang

2/18/2010 3:25:44 PM

Hint: that's not a vindication of your initial concern.

2/18/2010 3:30:00 PM

so what happened between now and then? did you not check up on it??

2/18/2010 3:31:01 PM

^ I did not check up on it because what answer could I possibly get other than "it was a clerical error" and that it's being fixed?

2/18/2010 3:34:14 PM

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"it appears that there is an fta out on me and that he'll have to represent me in misdemeanor court on Monday to take care of it all... ... ^ I did not check up on it because what answer could I possibly get other than "it was a clerical error" and that it's being fixed? "

.... WTF?

This is a new low in stupidity, even for the intertubes.

2/18/2010 3:51:47 PM

This lawyer has obviously fucked up....

But after fucking up the first time...WHY THE HELL DID YOU NOT GO TO HIS OFFICE PERSONALLY AND STRAIGHTEN SHIT OUT????

At some point, you are too blame for trusting that this fucker is going to fix shit for you. I would make sure we rode together to the next court date AND that he refund you your money.

2/18/2010 3:56:10 PM

I'm sorry, if you pay someone to represent you for a citation what proof do you have that they actually went and took care of it? Nothing! Do they give you a monogrammed certificate saying "CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE OFF THE HOOK"? If so, I never got it and I guess I was an idiot for not asking where it was.

ALSO I did speak with the DA's office and they CONFIRMED that this was a clerk's error/filing error.

[Edited on February 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM. Reason : ]

2/18/2010 3:56:25 PM

You're an idiot for not continuing to check up on this.

2/18/2010 4:07:22 PM

^^yeah, i got a phone call from my laywer the day of, and a letter about a week later.

hell if i wouldn't have been like flies on shit about this. i would never have just waited around doing nothing and expected obviously incompetent morons to straighten it out.

[Edited on February 18, 2010 at 4:18 PM. Reason : ]

2/18/2010 4:14:40 PM

How many of you kept your tests/homeworks in school? How many of you demanded that your teacher return them? To me, this is a similar situation. If a teacher tells you that you got an A on the final test, and after asking a few times they confirm, yes, it is in fact an A ++. You get an A for the course, then graduation rolls around and you find out that you can't graduate because you've failed that one final test that the teacher guaranteed was an A...

I'm horrible with analogies...
DA's office said I was ok twice, Lawyer said I was okay twice... what more was I supposed to do?

2/18/2010 4:20:45 PM

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"DA's office said I was ok twice, Lawyer said I was okay twice... what more was I supposed to do? "

For starters, keep files, with information like who it was at the DA's office that you spoke to, and the date and time. Just like you should do with all other official/business/important calls and communication. That way, when this shit happens, all you have to do is go, "well, on such date, X told me I was fine. And then on that date, Y told me I was fine. What's going on?". You'll be taken much more seriously and this also makes it clear that you're not some 'naw, not me. I'm a SAINT' schmuck off the streets who will proclaim his innocence til the grave.

Ask for proof from the DA's office in written form, saying you're clear. At this point, what the lawyer's office said doesn't mean jack shit: they're the reason you're even verifying with the DA's office in the first place.

You are partly responsible. You're making it clear that you don't want to hear it, but you are. Man up and accept this, and then be a proactive adult from here on out. That's what you can do.

2/18/2010 4:36:37 PM

ALWAYS keep a paper trail. always. always.

2/18/2010 4:39:20 PM

And for what it's worth, your lawyer cannot refuse to give you all correspondence from your case. All you had to do was make a phone call and ask for all the documentation.

2/18/2010 4:50:17 PM

I still want to know who the lawyer is......

2/18/2010 6:38:25 PM

i, too, have been in this situation, except the attorney had another client with the same last name and first initial, and got the two cases mixed up--he straightened everything out in the end

2/18/2010 6:58:10 PM

I applied for a gun permit two weeks ago and was denied because apparently convicted felons cannot have guns??!?

Quite the "clerical error" if you ask me. I call just about every other day (I'm in a different county) to make sure it's still being corrected. Yesterday I was in Wake and they couldn't even find my paperwork. Today I got a call from the girl that's supposed to be handling it and apparently the 'computer won't accept the change'. Yeah I'm pretty sure there's some tape to cut through before you can magically absolve a felon. =\

2/18/2010 7:13:13 PM