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Lawyer Told Me That I Had An Offer For My Owi Case

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I hired a lawyer in July after being accused of an owi. He pretty much ghosted me. Canceled my hearing, missed two phone meetings saying that he was given the wrong number which wasn’t true. His assistant said that she called me and that I was mumbling and then hung up on her. I told her I looked at my call log and that she never called. When I demanded to speak to my lawyer he finally called me right on time. Then he completely missed my hearing without telling me. I didn’t even find out until I recieved a letter in the mail that my hearing was being pushed to January. After this I was done and requested my money back. He called within 5 minutes telling me that there was a misunderstanding and talked me into keeping him as my lawyer.
But my gut just said no. I called back and said after being ghosted, him dragging out the case, cancelling and then not showing up at all that I had decided that I wanted a full refund. He called back again, lying through his teeth. He ended up agreeing to give me
A full refund because he felt bad for the situation I’m in with my mom, which was just an insult to my intelligence. Today I spoke to a different attorney who said that he saw I was given an offer and asked me what the offer was. I had no idea that there was an offer. I looked at all of my documents that I recieved from my lawyer and the offer was not in there. I called the DA and they told me that offer
Was on the table from the beginning. She also told me that she was very familiar with my lawyer and that he’s basically unstable which was lovely to hear. She told me this after knowing he was fired. The offer was a slap on the wrist. At this point I’m furious. Had I known about this I could have just moved on with my life. This lawyer has caused so much stress to the point I couldn’t even sleep at night. He kept telling me to go to trial because I’d most likely win but that he needed another 5k. I had told him
No over and over. Anyway, can this lawyer face any trouble? Location: Madison Wisconsin.

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