I began calling to start the process of aquiring an attorney for a 7. Last Friday I called and left a message, no call back. I called them back on Monday, left another message, no call back as of Tuesday.
I called another office on Monday morning, got a receptionist, left a voice mail with the "scheduler." 3:00pm rolls around, no call. I call back and ask when I can expect a return call from the "scheduler." I am told 3:30pm - 4:00pm. I say "so I'll wait then?" Receptionist says yes. No call as of Tuesday.
I call my third attorney today (Tuesday), and get right through to the attorney I'm looking for. Sounds good this time huh?
He seems a little stern, could be ok, but when setting up an appointment, he says, "When can you and your DW come in?" I say my DW works in the day, and he says, "so do I" kind of stern, but not quite mean or anything. Still, WTH is his problem? I then explained to him, that in other words, it would be just me for the initial meeting.
He seemed fine, except for that little rub about he also works in the day, and was stictly a business only attitude. He did say that we have quite a lot of debt (of course I knew that already). I looked him up on the internet, and he's supposedly a law professor at the local Law College.
I'm a little concerned with how their office is the highest advertised by far in the phone book and even on the internet, and that the ads say my attorney has handled over 3000 BK cases. I looked him up on the state bar website and it says he started as an attorney in 1995.
If you do the math, that's about 231 per year, so maybe he's a mill? He did say a small deposit was all he needed to be retained and that I could refer calls to him after giving the small deposit.
BTW, my DW and I are at 130K unsecured CC debt. We only make in the 20K's a year, but selling on the internet has made it possible to keep making monthly minimums for a while. We haven't used CC's since late March. We live in Southern CA.
I want to pick the right attorney, but 2 out of 3 so far have not called back. If they won't call a potential client who wants to pay them money, how will they handle us after we give them money?
I called another office on Monday morning, got a receptionist, left a voice mail with the "scheduler." 3:00pm rolls around, no call. I call back and ask when I can expect a return call from the "scheduler." I am told 3:30pm - 4:00pm. I say "so I'll wait then?" Receptionist says yes. No call as of Tuesday.
I call my third attorney today (Tuesday), and get right through to the attorney I'm looking for. Sounds good this time huh?
He seems a little stern, could be ok, but when setting up an appointment, he says, "When can you and your DW come in?" I say my DW works in the day, and he says, "so do I" kind of stern, but not quite mean or anything. Still, WTH is his problem? I then explained to him, that in other words, it would be just me for the initial meeting.
He seemed fine, except for that little rub about he also works in the day, and was stictly a business only attitude. He did say that we have quite a lot of debt (of course I knew that already). I looked him up on the internet, and he's supposedly a law professor at the local Law College.
I'm a little concerned with how their office is the highest advertised by far in the phone book and even on the internet, and that the ads say my attorney has handled over 3000 BK cases. I looked him up on the state bar website and it says he started as an attorney in 1995.
If you do the math, that's about 231 per year, so maybe he's a mill? He did say a small deposit was all he needed to be retained and that I could refer calls to him after giving the small deposit.
BTW, my DW and I are at 130K unsecured CC debt. We only make in the 20K's a year, but selling on the internet has made it possible to keep making monthly minimums for a while. We haven't used CC's since late March. We live in Southern CA.
I want to pick the right attorney, but 2 out of 3 so far have not called back. If they won't call a potential client who wants to pay them money, how will they handle us after we give them money?
You want someone you like and is good. 
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