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Retirement Attorney, Error in Judgement?
I lost a retirement case with the Sheriff's agency I worked for for over 19 years. My attorney throughout the whole case told me it wouldn't be a problem, because he only needed to show in the slightest, that my job contributed to my injury. After each step of my retirement battle, he would tell me that the attorney for the county, ''Could not believe they had him fighting the case?'' And my attorney would continue to tell me it wouldn't be a problem proving my job contributed to my injury.
Well, I lost my work related case, including the appelate level, where I finally went to a different attorney. My problem is this, information I had involving a work related injury posted earlier in my career on what was know as a ''Snivel Sheet, could not be located, Department said they must have destroyed the records. My attorney never made an issue of this, and the reason I lost my case seems to be, because I never reported an injury in the 19 years I worked for the department.
Can I have this whole retirement issue re-heard based on lack of effort, because he felt it was a for-sure victory?

Asked on 8/31/01, 3:05 pm

Ken Koury Kenneth P. Koury, Esq.

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Re: Retirement Attorney, Error in Judgement?

No. if you think he committed malpractice you have to sue the attorney.

Answered on 10/01/01, 2:16 am

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