Legal Question in Legal Malpractice in California

Law firm forgot to ask the court to retain jurdiction

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We settlement a civil lawsuit (monthly payment). The defendant first started paying but now stopped. There's a clause that says that I can accelerate the judgment if he stops paying for 2 months in a row but the law firm I used at the time did not ask the court to retain juridiction after we settled so now I don;t have a judgment and I cannont enforce it. They refuse to answer my calls and emails when I am asking them to finish the job and file the necessary paperwork to ask the court to retain jurdiction. What can I do now? This follows another major mistake they did. In the settlement agreement, they did not say that the civil agreement was for pain and suffering so the defendant tried for the last 8 months to confuse the court by claiming that the civil agreement was superseding the restitution order. He was trying to wipe out the restitution order completely. After battleing for 8 months and incurring numerous costs, the defendant finally admitted that he knew he needed to satisfy both but by the meantime, I incurred numerous additional costs. All this, because the lawyers were not specific in the agreement. And of course, they refused to help me when the issue arised so I had to take a lawyer for that.

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