20. "RE: The Bureaucracy"
In response to message #19
>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.