Legal Question in Business Law in Massachusetts

Re: Prosecuting or Persecuting

What you should have done long ago is file a complaint with the Board of Bar Overseers (the entity responsible for attorney discipline in MA) detailing the circumstances. I suggest that you do so immediately as it is likely to profoundly alter the handling of the case if the facts are as you describe. You also might consider contacting either the Massachusetts Bar referral service (or the one for Middlesex County) to get help.

Best wishes,

LDWG

Re: Prosecuting or Persecuting

First File an Answer denying his allegations and stating you have never received an entire complaint. Second File answer to the Motion that you have not received the Interrogatorries and that they have been mailing you incomplete documents and File your own Motion for Dismissal of any counts that have not been properly served upon you including a request for triple damages because that portion of the complaint was never served upon you.

You can also request the Court to order mediation of the dispute.

As to the action of the attorney, he is a collection attorney and he deals with things as they come and this may be his technique. There is nothing in his behavior as described that would seem to violate the cannons of ethics, notwithstanding my view that it is not the best way to deal with such things.