Disabled teen's converted van repo'd due to lawyer's screwup

[KamaAina]

Welcome to life in the good ol' U.S. of A...

http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_13547953

The last thing Live Oak resident Robin Benites expected last week was for her attorney not to show up when she appeared in court to plead her case against Bay Federal Credit Union for repossessing and selling the modified van she used to transport her disabled son....

Wednesday, Judge Roger L. Efremsky of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court San Jose Division admonished Maverick for neglecting his obligations as Benites' attorney during a phone conference because Maverick didn't show up in court that day. Efremsky also ruled that Bay Federal's sale of the van was void and asked Maverick to contact the credit union....

In the past year, she has had surgery for lung disease while her 16-year-old son, Bud, had undergone two surgeries for severe scoliosis, and the only transportation she had to get him to Soquel High School and back is gone.

For the time being her husband has been able to load his son's wheelchair into the trunk of his Mercury Marauder in the morning before he heads over the hill to work the night shift as a school custodian. The school bus brings Bud home in the afternoon, but if anything goes wrong while her husband is at work, they are stuck at home.

Ye gods! And to think, this wasn't even an evil, TARP-money-taking, lavish-beach-party-throwing bank, but a credit union. And as to the "lawyer", well, you know what's black and brown and would look really good on him?

A Rottweiler. :evilgrin:

[Angry Dragon]

1. What do expect...

Lawyers are mostly idiots. Look what most people in government are. Lawyers have less respect than used cars salemen.

[Name removed]

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[Soylent Brice]

5. lol

:popcorn:

[TexasObserver]

3. Lawyers fight to retain the rights you take for granted.

[liberalhistorian]

6. No kidding. This hate-lawyer shit gets

really, really tiresome after awhile. And the people who complain the loudest are the ones who'd likely scream the most for attorneys when THEY need them.

[TexasObserver]

13. Especially since so many work pro bono to protect progressive ideals.

[liberalhistorian]

4. If you think that most people in government are idiots,

then you, my friend, are definitely on the wrong website. And as someone in the legal field who's married to an attorney who's worked his ass off all of his career on behalf of the low-income and desperate, when he could have made a lot more money doing the corporate shark thing, and having known many, many, many such attorneys, I say that you couldn't be more wrong.

And yes, the attorney was a complete idiot in this case and deserves to be sanctioned and sued up the wazoo for malpractice; I hope he has good malpractice insurance (yes, attorneys can be sued for malpractice just like doctors and have malpractice insurance, too) as there is no excuse for his inaction and gross negligence in this case. There are good and bad in ALL professions. But the legal profession generally does a much better job of policing itself and holding its members accountable than the medical profession, which is more interested in protecting themselves from any accountability for the consequences of their negligence, and in reducing said accountability to almost nothing, than in protecting patients.

[Obamanaut]

9. These words "There are good and bad in ALL professions" in your

post are quite true. That is why I hate it when a thread becomes an "all police are scoundrels" thread, or "all military are mindless thugs" or "all teachers are saints."

Some people are flawed, and some of those flawed people are in every single group, profession, activity, we can name.

There are people who say one must be a lawyer to be in congress. Many are not, and many disagree. But it does appear that lawyers have much greater success in getting elected.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I am sorry.

I am sorry if I offended you. That was not my intention. I would agree with all that you said, except, I am not on the wrong website. I thought this was a place to discuss ideas, exchange information, and to better form intelligent opinions. The way you came at me you might question me on that last one.

Question for you then: The majority of Congress is made up of lawyers, then why is it so difficult to get bill passed that one can really understand them. It seems that they are mostly vauge and need much further interpretation??

I do not doubt that there are many fine lawyers out there and many working for less than what they could receive elsewhere.

[Obamanaut]

7. And we continue to reelect them. When there is a vacancy, we

find another lawyer to fill the seat. I don't know why we complain - we do it to ourselves over and over.

[Ikonoklast]

8. 'What do expect'?

You lost me with the unreadable grammar.

And your username ain't foolin' anyone.

/4/chan slow today?

[Angry Dragon]

10. Reply

I missed a word in the subject line ... should have said What do you expect

I wonder what you find misleading in my name??

And I am sorry, but I do not understand your last line.

[rcloxley]

12. Disabled sons van

Link for Santa Cruz Sentinel story that can be commented on Thanks and God Bless
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_13548917?source=most_viewed