Just a "stuck in my craw" event that happened to me years ago. I bought a clinic in a small rural town in Mississippi. I hired one of my patients (a lawyer) to close on a real estate purchase so I could build a house. He came to the office for his checkup, mentioned that things were going well with the real estate purchase. When I got the bill for his "services" there was a $350 charge dated the day of his appointment. When I asked him about it, he simply said that he spent 90 minutes waiting to tell me things were going well.
It all boiled down to the facts that I charged him $55 for a medical exam and he charged me $350 for a legal update..... Since then, I've been very reluctant to take any lawyer's advice "at face value"....
The above comments about hiring a lawyer to get resolution on a $1000 loss will probably cost you $15000 in legal updates so you can "save the $1000.....
Lawyers..... Where would we be without them ????
