Angela Therese Lee-Mandlin

Angela Lee-Mandlin

Hey! That's not fair. When you retain a lawyer, your retainer agreement usually states that you are not retaining a particular attorney but rather the office as a whole. This means that different parts of the case are handled by people having varying expertise for that area: discovery is handled by one attorney; inter-office communications are handled by someone else. Appearances in court may be handled by a junior attorney who has expertise in pre-trial conferences with the court. Legal writing and research can be done by another lawyer or a law clerk. The legal judgment of your attorney is usually based upon pleadings. The attorney does not need extraneous facts unless the lawyer asks for it. Very often, it is way more important to talk to the opposing attorney rather than the client. These contacts are done during daylight hours and these calls come first. I also do not return client calls during day light hours as I am serving other clients during that time. Legal practice is an intricate apparatus and you may lack the expertise to criticize it. If I was your attorney, I might decide to drop your case if instead of facing the opponent you began to oppose me and publish your opposition on avvo. In my practice I periodically have to disqualify myself as counsel for a person when they turn against me. Some have felt free to publish my correspondence to the court and on the internet and all of those have found themselves unrepresented thereafter.