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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 [b]the attorney went off the Secretary of State listing, which had not yet been updated, and therefore delivered it to the wrong address[/b]. 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).[/quote]

I provided the attorney with the correct address, [b]the address for the defendant with the Secretary of State had the correct address[/b]. The firm was using the defendant's outdated address that the firm had in their system. [/quote]

Had do you know that the address had been updated with the Secretary of State's office ? Did you check prior to giving the attorney the address ?

Failure to include a copy of the Complaint (the lawsuit) might be the fault of the process server or, more likely, the Defendant was being untruthful about the lack of the Complaint in an attempt to get the case dismissed.

Any reputable process server would be aware that the Complaint was missing & would contact the attorney who had hired the process server.

My gut feeling is that the OP is mistaken.[/quote]

I am a lawyer and I am currently represented by a lawyer. There are a lot of really, really bad lawyers who screw up all the time. This is extremely plausible to me. I had to fire my first lawyer[b] and could easily get him sanctioned if I wanted to put in the effort.[/b] [/quote]

Really ? I doubt that you are an experienced lawyer. Also, if you are a lawyer, why do you need a lawyer ?[/quote]

I'm not a real estate attorney, I'm not licensed in the relevant state, I don't practice state law, and it looks horrible to be pro se. [/quote]

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