Question for lawyers - Do you charge clients for your mistakes

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Anonymous wrote:My understanding is OP is saying the defendant is a business who changed their legal address six months before the suit was filed. OP provided the updated, correct address to the attorney, but the attorney went off the Secretary of State listing, which had not yet been updated, and therefore delivered it to the wrong address. Then, they served it again but without the complaint so OP had to pay for another hearing. So the second mistake was totally the firm's fault and the first is borderline (reasonable to go off Secretary of State address but if they paid attention to detail they might have noticed the client gave a different address and inquired).

But it's also reasonable to go by the official address. The client could have gotten it wrong.

OP said the official address was correct at the time of the complaint being served. The attorney’s office used the old address rather than the updated one OP had provided, and apparently also rather than verifying with the Secretary of State, with whom the address had been updated, per OP:

“I provided the attorney with the correct address, the address for the defendant with the Secretary of State had the correct address. The firm was using the defendant's outdated address that the firm had in their system.”

OP changed their story. First time they said they thought that a lawyer should check other sources and not use information provided by the client in an email. In addition, the timeline is squirrelly and the story changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is OP is saying the defendant is a business who changed their legal address six months before the suit was filed. OP provided the updated, correct address to the attorney, but the attorney went off the Secretary of State listing, which had not yet been updated, and therefore delivered it to the wrong address. Then, they served it again but without the complaint so OP had to pay for another hearing. So the second mistake was totally the firm's fault and the first is borderline (reasonable to go off Secretary of State address but if they paid attention to detail they might have noticed the client gave a different address and inquired).

But it's also reasonable to go by the official address. The client could have gotten it wrong.

OP said the official address was correct at the time of the complaint being served. The attorney’s office used the old address rather than the updated one OP had provided, and apparently also rather than verifying with the Secretary of State, with whom the address had been updated, per OP:

“I provided the attorney with the correct address, the address for the defendant with the Secretary of State had the correct address. The firm was using the defendant's outdated address that the firm had in their system.”

OP changed their story. First time they said they thought that a lawyer should check other sources and not use information provided by the client in an email. In addition, the timeline is squirrelly and the story changed.

Np and this is what I noticed too. Usually, clients who complain about bills are squirrelly themselves