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    Default Stiffed After Paying a Friends Legal Fees

    After paying for a friends legal retainers for two cases my so-called friend stopped all communication with me. We had signed a written contract that she wrote and and I agreed to help her by paying her lawyer for two cases and in return she would give me 50% of any settlement I also help her with her rent, bills, kids doctors for the two years. Thinking I would make it back with the settlement. Well just a few month before her first case was about to settle she stop communicating with me, when I called her lawyer who took my credit card very happily he told me that she paid fir her own cases and told me to cease and desist trying to contact her. He also told me he knows nothing of me and that I should consult an attorney. I paid another attorney who sent her attorney a copy of the lien enforceable contract that his client and I signed but it went ignored. I have not been paid anything from either party. My question is who can I go after successfully and what should I sue for. This was an unlimited civil case.

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    Default Re: Stiffed After Paying a Friends Legal Fees

    Please tell us your state.

    (And the amount you believe you're owed)

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    Default Re: Stiffed After Paying a Friends Legal Fees

    You have a lawyer, so you should be posing your questions to your lawyer.

    As your lawyer has presumably told you, her lawyer doesn't represent you and he owes no attorney-client duty to you - his duties are to his client. You claim to have a "lien enforceable contract", so you presumably believe that your contract would be valid for asserting a lien against the proceeds of the debtor's litigation, but you have not indicated that you made any effort to perfect a lien before distribution occurred. If you did not, it doesn't matter that you could have done so. If you did, it's reasonable to infer that you've already been advised as to your remedies by your lawyer.

    Depending on your state there could be any number of problems with your loan agreement, depending on how it is structured, including a possible violation of usury laws.

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