Hi, Tina. Obviously I've never used JustAnswer.com nor PayPal before...Originally I said: we are a mom-n-pop S Corp in construction.We agreed to settle with a client whose eyes were bigger than his pocketbook and refused to pay for materials and service that were already in his house when he fired us, or were installed by another contractor. Accdg to the settle., any of those vendors, etc., were to sue us, then we were to sue the client and he would pay. Ha. He fought us on the lumberyard,but I'll buy more of your time about that later.The brick co. also filed suit. Then in Dec. our acc't was garnished for the amount due. Plus the bank also took $ that we owed them for a small Loan. Turns out our atty (who now can't use his law license for 12 months because of hanky-panky with a former partner's money) never answered Discovery (the brick co. atty explained it to us). I have a bout an $8500 bill from our atty. All monies on the garnish. cost us about $5900 plus I understand we will have to hire an atty to close out the Acme account. Re the lumberyard, his inv. makes no mention of the $4,000 in atty fees the judge awarded us. The client has appealed the judge's ruling to the Supreme of AR. Anyway, I want not to have to pay any of the $8500. What say you? Thank you. Linda Concoby, Energy-Smart Construction, Inc., Rogers, AR

I think the thing with the brick co., where he didn't file Discovery, is an "egregious error.: If that is also "malpractice," I'm fine with that. He has sued us for the $8855 we owe. In great part, thanks to him - we feel he ought to have shut the client's atty down fromthe get-go, but we now know -it was in the paper - he was in financial trouble and drinking- we have zip money. but on to the issue. I want to meet with his atty tomorrow, Friday, or on Monday (we're due in court Tuesday) and say - our atty didn't do this and etc., etc., therefore we don't think we owe him any money. Because he didn't do the right thing re: the brick co, our acct was garnished $4460.87 for the brik co, 1245.60 to payoff a loan to the bank (bank says they are entitled to do that) plus 75 garnishment fee and the 50 we paid to finish paying the bank loan becausse we didn't have enough money in the account for the total garnishment plus it think thereis another $108 bank fee we had to pay because of all this. My thinking is that I won't report our atty to the Bar Assn if he cancels the lawsuit against us and zeroes our account. (sorry can't get the underlining and bold to cancel) -- Linda

Tina, I will gladly Accept your Answer; thank you very much. BTW,the court date is Tuesday so I have asked to meet with our atty's atty tomorrow or Mon. Now, I would like to hire you regarding another question in the next few days. Can I get back to you directly thru this site, or does my question have to be open to any legal expert? -- Linda