>Oh yeah, I think I forgot/couldn't bear to get into this last summer,
>but remember how my attorney moved away and his replacement didn't get
>back to me for weeks? I finally called her, a day or two
>before the deadline to appeal the hearing ruling, to ask whether she
>had done so. She seemed annoyed and clearly had forgotten all about
>me, then gave me a testy and patronizing explanation that she hadn't
>automatically assumed all of my previous attorney's cases,* but
>was in the process of deciding which ones to take up, and thus
>she had "no ethical responsibility" (her phrase) to take on mine.
>Which she had decided (right at that moment, I'm pretty sure) not to
>do.

That sounds very much like something the bar association should be told about. It's hard to see how that happening doesn't involve someone having a failing in ethics or competency.