My wife & I needed a lawyer to represent us in a "Sexual Violence Against a Minor" injunction. Where do you find a lawyer these days? The internet of course. Because the minor child was a 12-year-old girl and her parents did not speak English, -they're Cubans. I thought that a woman who spoke Spanish, would be more suitable for the child, while deposing her. Additionally, she would be able to communicate with the parents directly without an interpreter. Through Google, amongst a myriad of click ads, I found the law firm of Stephanie Morrow: S.G. Morrow & Associates, P.A.
We needed a lawyer because... The short version of why we needed representation follows: Around June 2018, my wife Yolanda open her house to her cousin Lazaro, his wife Dianelys and their little daughter Yoly. They had been living in a garage apt that belongs to his dad's stepson for about a year. They were being thrown out and had no place to go, so Yolanda let them move in and stay in her guest room. They were penniless; they didn't have a pot to piss in. He had an old truck that was dying, so Yolanda gave him $1400 to buy a used truck from a friend of his. He did not have to pay her back. Yolanda got little Yoly registered at a nice charter school not far from the house. We took her to various stores and bought her all her school clothing and supplies. The parents didn't seem to care for this little kid. They never paid attention to her. It was like she was just there, almost in the way. That really bothered me, so I spent time with her, teaching her English, helping with homework, entertaining her. Poor kid had no one. Her mom would not allow her to have friends over. The only friends she had was Yolanda and I. After a month or so, Lazaro's old truck was breaking down and not worth the money to fix, so Yolanda took him shopping for a newer car. She ended up buying him a 2015 Ford escape, for some $13,350. He offered to pay her back at $400 per month. She did not charge him interest. They did not have legal work permit, but he did misc. labor jobs to earn money. They lived with Yolanda rent free. After school and on weekends, we took little Yoly to many places: The mall, the dollar store, amusement parks, the Haunted House, Santa's enchanted forest. We bought her things, spoiled her a little. Yolanda taught her a lot of things about living in the US, and things in general that her mother failed to teach her. Little Yoly was 10 at the time. Because of all this attention, caring and affection that we gave little Yoly, she began to really like/love us, more than her parents it seems. That became a problem. They became extremely jealous. They wanted to go back to Cuba. They said they were going to sell their house in Cuba, but that was a lie. A few weeks before their departure, they tried to borrow money from Yolanda. They had spent whatever money they had on plane tickets, passports and they bought a ton of stuff including 3 smart TVs to bring to their family in Cuba. Yolanda who was not working -she was caring for her mother who was dying- refused to lend them more money. So, they asked me for $2000, offering to pay back $2500 within a few months of their return. I agreed to it but made him sign the title to their car as collateral and gave him 6 months to pay. They were all set and left to Cuba. They came back 2 weeks later but were very cold and kept little Yoly away from us. In a discussion about this strange behavior, they claimed that I tried to kiss little Yoly. They later moved out and were not paying Yolanda for the car or for living in her house and myself for the $2500 loan. I threaten to take them to court, but they could not afford the payments. So, I had to refinance the loan for 18 months @ 138.00 a month, as opposed to the original $400 +/- a month for 6 months On January 13th, 2020 -as they had not paid the Jan 10th payment- I pasted a notice on their door, that I would take them to court. On that day, out of haste, they went to the Dade County courthouse and file an injunction for protection against sexual violence on the minor. They had 12 accusations against me and 5 accusations against Yolanda. All fabricated lies. Some of the accusations didn't even make sense. It was all in retaliation for me making them pay me back, and for the story about them that I published on this site: badbusinessreport.com Knowing that these accusations are all a bunch of pure BS, we sought the help of an attorney as this injunction prevents me from owning fire arms even for self-protection and also prevents Yolanda from fostering or adopting a child. And as much as we could live with that, we don't see why we should have our names tarnished over a bunch of lies. We are respectable, financially stable South Florida residents with clean records and these accusations are 100 % fabricated by evil, wicked minds. In closing, Yolanda was not able to have children. As such she and I loved little Yoly very much and she loved us as well. We treated her like if she was our child. We were so heartbroken when they isolated her from us. We were unable to see or hear from her. Our major concern was her evil parents' ability to properly take care of her. In fact, her ill willed mother -so full of hatred- manipulated her and fed her lies to turned her against us. I personally was not concerned about the accusations as I know that the only thing Yolanda & I did to that little girl, was to love her, care for her and provide her with basic necessities. OK, we spoiled her a little. So, we wanted a seasoned attorney to show that these accusations were all maliciously fabricated lies so that we could be exonerated and prosecute them for perjury on the court filing. Knowing them as well as we do by now, we are convinced that in their mind, these lies would have the bailiff escort us out of the court room in handcuffs and they would enjoy their ultimate revenge. To their dismay, that did not happen, however. We Retained a Lawyer and the Nightmare Began. So, after a brief consultation, and $8000.00 upfront, we retained the law office Stephanie Morrow P.A. The first thing we needed to do was to get the court date reset as we had been served only 3 days prior. Got that done. Then we needed to depose them, -Lazaro and his wife- before the next court date which was on 2/24/2020. They were served on 2/14/2020 to appear at Stephanie's office on 2/20/2020, only 4 days before court. That seemed to me like a very short time to prepare for trial, given that she does not work on weekends she only had Friday to prepare for court on Monday. Is this lawyer a Total Moron? On the 19th, in the late afternoon, the mother called Stephanie to tell her that she would not be coming to the deposition. She said that she needed to speak to her attorney. She did say that she would call back -according to Stephanie- but she did not. Knowing that, Stephanie did not cancel the appointment with the court videographer and the translator. And, given that by the close of the business day Stephanie had not received a call to confirm the petitioner's attendance -or lack thereof- why would she not have cancelled the videographer and translator? She could have called them first thing the next morning to cancel, but she did not. Why? Because, She's a moron? The unnecessary costs of $797.50 were on our dime, not hers? Or she read parts of my story on the internet about the "Family From Hell" who I bashed pretty harshly for the way they had treated us, and decided to get even with me, on their behalf? Not sure which, but from that point on I felt very uncomfortable with her representing us. On the 21st she did file a "Motion for continuance and other relief" seeking reimbursement of the costs for their non-attendance of the deposition. She also asked the judge on the February 24th hearing to award us those costs, which the judge denied. She did not argue it at all, leaving us to absorb those costs resulting from her gross negligence. At the February 24th hearing, the petitioner had representation from some arrogant Latin female lawyer who was not retained but doing them a favor. I think she might have been a friend or friend of a friend who was advising them on filing this petition for the sole purpose of revenge. She wanted to put the minor child on the stand. Why? To scare us? Great! We asked the judge permission to depose the child. Judge Harris advised that we need to file a special request to depose the minor. While in the courtroom, our lawyer demanded that the Judge set a new deposition date, for the petitioner's father and his wife, to make them understand that they Must appear. She did. That date was March 9th, 2020 at 1:30pm. They also set a new court date for April 2, 2020 at 2:30pm On March 9th, 10 minutes before the deposition was to take place, Stephanie's assistant called me to see if I was coming to the deposition. They had not followed up with us to confirm that we were coming. Based on Yolanda's notes I understood it to be on the 10th. I was not prepared to attend neither was Yolanda; she was at work. Actually, I could have made it since the translator was an hour late instead of the ten minutes, that the secretary had mentioned. So, we attended via conference call. We could listen in, but were not allowed to speak as it was on record. She has no clue on Deposing the Petitioners That deposition was such a joke. Our lawyer would ask questions and they would ramble on about other, unrelated subjects. She asked Lazaro where he lived, he did not know his address. He only knows how to get there. She asked him what his daughter's birthday was, he had no clue. She asked him about the notice that I put on the door. He said it was in English and he didn't understand it. So, she made him get his copy of it from his wife in the waiting room -even though she had a copy of it- to read it to her. He had difficulties reading the Spanish portion of it. Throughout this deposition, we heard so many lies. Of course, all their accusations were fabricated lies. The Notice was in Spanish, and in English. Here is a copy of it. 
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Knowing the intellectual level she was dealing with, she continued to waste very costly time deposing this seemingly retarded individua. Eventually she gave up on him, and deposed the wife. Again, she asked questions that were sidestepped with irrelevant testimony and OMG! Filled with lies. This woman -the mother- was just out to hang us. So, 3 hours later Stephanie realized that this deposition was going nowhere and finally ended it at 6:30pm. The costs for that deposition were whopping $1095.00. And, Stephanie herself, told us that the testimony was not worth the cost of the transcript which would have been an extra $819.00. According to the National Reporting Service invoice, the first hour of court reporting at $125.00 and the first hour of videographer service at $250.00 were for sitting and waiting on the translator that Stephanie had contracted, to arrive. She was 1 hour late, again on our dime. Finally, on April 24th, 2020 We FIRED HER. Based on Stephanie Morrow's performance - of S.G. Morrow & Associates, P.A.- we decided that this woman was absolutely clueless, incapable of representing us. We felt that she was totally incompetent in her chosen field: the practice of law. Therefore, on April the 24th we decided to fire her. We felt that she would do much more harm than good, at a cost of $8,000.00. The harm in part; is that she was -and still is- sabotaging the release of our deposition video. I'm sure she does not want anyone to see or hear what a disaster that deposition was. She was not in control of it, the deponents were. Neither she nor the court reporting service are cooperating with us or our new lawyer in obtaining the video. As such, we have no deposition to use in our defense. We cannot recollect all the lies that we heard over the phone throughout the deposition and the new lawyer tells us that we may not be permitted to re-depose the petitioner. Her refusal to cooperate is really hampering our efforts to prove that all these accusations are fabricated lies in retaliation for making them pay me back what they owe me. Furthermore, I felt that she did not believe in my innocence. It seems that she made me out to be a pedophile from the start. She kept saying that because I bought things for little Yoly that I would be looked upon as a Sugar Daddy conditioning the child for lewd activities.... She never asked about all the different things I bought for little Yoly. Truth be told, I was always with Yolanda and little Yoly when we bought her things. Many times I would pay for those things instead of letting Yolanda pay for everything... We spoiled her together. I don't see where that, made me a sugar daddy. At one time I bought her Scuaba diving gear, to teach her how to scuba dive. Was I conditioning her then ??? She claimed that she read the whole website ?which was my exact documentation of all the events with the "Family from Hell"? in a 1/2 hour. Excuse me! The main page, not to mention all the linked pages, contains over 8400 words. I don't think so! She also wanted to hear my version of the modeling experience. It was clearly described in a linked page. I wrote it; hence my verbal version would be no different than the published version. I think that Stephanie was just looking for a free lunch. Easy Money ie: Go to court, make little effort at a defense since her contract did not guaranty a favorable result and make a quick $8 Grand. I mean, somebody has got to pay for that "Aventura" office that she shares with another lawyer and that fancy little car she drives. All we wanted was our documentation back, and some unearned fees As of that date April 24th 2020, all we wanted was our Original documentation -nothing emailed or photocopied- returned to us, and we expected some of the unearned prepaid fees -that $8000.00 upfront payment- to be refunded to us. So, we asked for her hourly invoice as stated in her contract at $400 @ hour which we feel is way overpriced for her representation in this case. Based on what she demonstrated to us, she is not worth anywhere near $400 @ hour -in my opinion. Most lawyers I was shopping around were in the $250 to $300 @ hour range. Who does she think she is? Some High Class lawyer? I THINK NOT! Because of her total incompetence, we were forced to seek another attorney to take over this case. We did, and so far, I am so glad we canned her and found this new lawyer. However, we had to fork out another $6,000.00, which is causing a a financial hardship during this Pandemic. We now have over $14,000 invested in a bunch of fabricated lies. AND, we're hoping to be exonerates at a Zoom court trial, which is a disaster in an of itself. We can't even get a person to person court hearing unless the Pandemic miraculously disappears. Is that a Joke or What?
That's how much damage a malicious accuser and an incompetent lawyer can cause! Thus far dealing with her and the court reporter had been nothing short of a horrible nightmare. I am guessing that she got really pissed off that someone would actually fire her. DUH! She Sucks. Since then, she has morphed into the "Bitch from Hell" and she refused to cooperate with us as it relates to the case at hand. She would not notify the court that she was no longer representing us. The new lawyer emailed her several times in regards to advising the court and also to obtain the deposition video from the court reporter. She ignored him as she ignored us. Yet she charged us $80 to read his emails. The Nerves! Since that date we have been asking her to provide us the deposition video. She sent us the invoice from the court reporter for us to pay and to deal directly with him. That't totally inappropriate on her part. She contracted him. It's her duty to pay for and obtain the video and then surrender it to us and demand payment. I'm guessing that she blew the $8000 and now can't afford to pay the court reporter. Not a fact, just a guess. That court reporter/videographer was such a DICK! So, after a lot of going back & forth with the videographer's office -That was a hellish nightmare of its own- we still don't have that video. This incident deserves its own story, but for now, the short version is: I called to pay via credit card. The lady wanted the credit card info via email. I refused as it's not safe. I offered the info over the phone. She said only her manager would do that. The manager was not there that day. I called the next morning, the manager was still not there. She said she comes in after 12:00. I called again and finally spoke to the manager. She also insisted that I email her credit card information. I would not. She was very arrogant. All this hassle with this office just to pay them -which was not even my responsibility- It was becoming such a nightmare, we was subjected to so much unnecessary stress by this National Reporting Service. Yolanda spoke to Brian, not sure what his position is, at National Reporting Service. He convinced her to send the credit card info via emailed. He told her that he would then email her a link to the video with the password to access the deposition video. So, she did. But Brian did not send us the video. He claimed he could only send it to our attorney. What a DICK! And, whichever Bimbo or Bozo that charged Yolanda credit card, they charged it twice. It feels like they were patronizing us, lying to us about delivering the video that we paid for. I found them to be extremely difficult to deal with. They are very vindictive, not to mention that they are freaking liars. I made Yolanda call her bank and dispute the two, $1600.00 charges; they were removed. As far as I am concerned, they can take that video and RAM IT, right where the sun doesn't shine. I would absolutely NOT recommend using National Reporter Service. Based on Flagler street, in Miami for your court reporter needs. So, to this day, August 20, 2020 we still have not been able to obtain that video. Not that's its very relevant at this point, but it does contain a bunch of lies. Our new lawyer offered National Reporter service to pay the $1095.00 for the deposition video and possibly the extra $819.00 for the transcript if there were any usable testimony in the video. They're still haggling. They said only if S. G Morrow agrees to it. I think, -but it's not a fact- that Stephanie is holding the video hostage to retaliate against us. Besides, she probably doesn't want anybody to see how inept she is at taking a deposition. She would be totally embarrassed. We emailed her many times to get our documentation back. Yolanda had given her original mementos from little Yoly, that she really wanted back. Of the files she gave us most of it was documentation that the petitioner had left with her. Mostly useless, but it was interesting to see what they came up with. They even had a few fake, fabricated phone texts to use as evidence. This lawyer runs such a messy, disorganized office, there are files everywhere, even falling off her desk. She couldn't locate some of our documents so, Yolanda had to email her again demanding their return. We even sent her photographs of the missing documents. Finally, a few days later the secretary located the misplaced items. We finally received her bill. Two and a half months later
OMG! What A RIP OFF. This brings us to her final bill. Since April 24th we asked for a final bill, to see what she figured we owed her for billable time. We asked for that bill many times. She kept ignoring us, stalling us, why? Because this money hungry, money grubbing bitch was figuring out how to pad the bill to eat up the whole $8000.00. Hello! We didn't just get off the boat. So, the bill finally arrived on July 8th 2020. OMG! What a RIP. This woman is a real Nut Case. As bad as the evil, psychopath woman she was defending us from. So, let's go over the bill to see how conniving, this money hungry bitch is.
See the actual invoice here
01/30/20 Consultation Fee: $600 First of all, the first consultation was free. Although in my search for a lawyer, some -but not all- wanted $250 for an initial consultation fee. As such her $600 is way out of line. 01/31/20: $40. The day after the consultation, she wanted us to email her our driver's license. Not sure why but we did. She's charging us $40 for that email request. She could have made a copy of our licenses at the initial consultation. It shows how efficient she is. 02/03/20: $800. She claims she printed the web page(s). However, when she gave us back our file, there was no evidence of the web page. She did give us the Spanish version of the page that the petitioner had left with her. We did spend a couple hours at the court house, mostly waiting to get in the court room. Not complaining about that $800, although it's a lot of money for her to just sit there and wait. 02/18/20: $320 Exaggerated. Reviewed file, contacted translator. That is highly exaggerated. at $320.00 02/20/20: $400 Prepared for deposition, waited for deponents, no show That was all her fault. The deponents had called to advise her that they were not coming. She has the audacity to charge us an hour @ $400 for HER negligence to cancel the deposition. 02/24/20: $1600 Attended the hearing We were there for 3 hours, again mostly waiting to get in the court room. A fair charge would be $1200. We were there to reset the hearing. 03/06/20: $600 Exaggerated. Prepared questions & documents for deposition. Given the questions that she asked, she did not do much preparation. Most of the questions were the ones I had given her because I knew the true answer to them. This is way exaggerated. 03/09/20: $1800 Exaggerated. Conducted deposition. Again, way exaggerated. The deposition was 3 hours. It was 3 wasted hours as she was not in control of the deposition. She even told us that there was not enough usable testimony to pay for the transcript. From what we heard on the phone, ?we listen in on conference call? that deposition was a total disaster. One hour of the 4 hours charged was her waiting on her tardy translator. 03/10/20: $80 Fake Charge. Received & reviewed email from client with YouTube video of modeling. She had a concern about the child doing modeling. I sent her a few links of minors modeling swimsuits or undergarments. She's charging me to educate her as it relates to children modeling for catalogs. Those links were on the modeling page of the website, had she bothered to look at it. Or, she could have used that immense knowledge that she charges $400 an hour for, to Google children modeling fashion. 03/11/20: $40 Fake Charge. Email client court reporting invoice. This is how she pads the bill with bogus charges. The court reporter invoice was not our concern. She hired him. 03/13/20 and 03/14/20: $80 Fake Charge. These emails were between her and the court reporter. We had no interaction whatsoever with the court reporter. Again, Padding the bill, 2 bogus $40 charges. 03/30/20: $80 Fake Charge. The rescheduling of the court date is OK, but anything referring to the court reporter is just padding the bill. I don't see a copy of a video deposition in that email. But Yolanda is again asking her to provide us the copy of the deposition as she had paid the court reporter some $1600, and he never delivered a copy of the deposition. We were being hassled big time with this Idiot court reporter who was jerking us off for some reason. He was very spiteful. He said he would email us a link to the video, but after we paid him, he then said he would only send it to our attorney. If WE paid for it then WE should get it. What a freaking liar. We should not have been subjected to all that undue stress for something that was her responsibility. 04/06/20: $40 Fake Charge. Again, that's between her and the court reporter. 04/20/20: $40 She just responded to an email from Yoly sent on the 17th because we had not heard from her in 2 weeks. We had to ASK for the status of our hearings as she neglected to update us. 04/24/20: $80 Fake Charge. Received an email regarding termination of services, responded. Wow! She's charging us $80 to read an email notice that we are firing her. And, there was no response until May 14th. I don't understand where she gets the audacity to charge us for telling her that she's fired. We felt that she really sucked as it related to our case; it was like throwing good money right out the window, so we fired her. 04/28/20: $40 Fake Charge. Received & reviewed stipulations for substitution of counsel from new attorney. Wow this woman is so full of crap. She would not cooperate in notifying the court that she was no longer representing us. So, our new lawyer contacted her to advise her that he was in fact our new attorney. She had been terminated on 04/24/20: the best decision I ever made.
Anything after 04/24/20 is not billable as legal representation.
It's just communications between two individuals.
05/04/20: $40 Fake Charge. Received and reviewed email from Marc regarding various issues. Again, asking for her final bill and the deposition video. Still padding the bill, desperate for the money. 05/14/20: $80 Fake Charge. Email to Marc regarding fees and original documents. She was no longer our attorney. Again, we had to chase her to get our original documentation back from her. Also trying to get her to provide us with the deposition video. 05/26/20: $80 Fake Charge. Telephone conversation with court reporter. Still not our concern as it relates to the court reporter. 05/29/20: $80 Fake Charge. Email from Yolanda regarding documents received. She had given Yolanda mostly documents that the petitioners had left with her, not our original documents that we had left with her. Yolanda was asking for the return of her original documents: Precious mementos from little Yoly that she had misplaced. Again, she was trying to get us to pay the court reporter. That was her responsibility as previously mentioned. 02/03/20 Copies ( copies of ???) $4.25
02/10/20 Copies (copies of ???) $7.25
I think that at $400.00 @ hour, copies should be included. And finally, the last page of the bill:
PAYMENT IS DUE UPON RECEIPT OF INVOICE OR A LATE FEE OF $100.00 PER MONTH
AND A 1% LATE FEE PER MONTH WILL APPLY.
WOW! That lady has Balls. WOW! That lady has Balls, Brass Balls, not much brains though, with this wishful thinking.
Because half the charges on the bill are bogus and she was not capable of performing the services we were paying for. SHE should give us most of the fees back and Late fees for each month since April 24th 2020. She should also pay us punitive damages for all the unnecessary stress she subjected us to and for the deposition that she is holding hostage -as the judge will not let us depose the petitioners again, therefore, making our defense more difficult. Somehow, she thinks she can apply a "Whatever amount suits me" late fee with a 1% late fee on top of that. Clearly, this woman has lost it. So, now what? How do you handle some fraud who thinks she just walked away with $8 grand, by ignoring us? Hummm! Good question. I know one thing; this horrible, poor excuse of a lawyer, can't just get away with bilking unsuspecting clients -Yolanda & I in this case- out of thousands of dollars, especially in these incredibly dire Covid-19 times where most are out of work and not sure where our next meal is coming from. As if we are not stressed out enough with the Pandemic, the masks, social distancing, curfews, stay home orders, shortage of foods & other essentials, long lines at the grocery store, and all the inconveniences brough on by the pandemic, we now have to endure yet another virus: The crookedlawyer-8K. It belittles you, disrespects you, ignores you, causes severe stress and anxiety, and gobbles up your whole retainer like a blood hungry shark. This is not her first-time bilking clients. She has done this before to other trusting individuals. I found 2 complaints from the Florida Bar where she took money from clients but did not provide services.
Click here to see the actual complaint
Speaking of the Florida Bar, I am not impressed nor satisfied with their handling of our complaint. I wrote to them, showing all the facts as I have here but they just blew me off citing it was a fee dispute. NO, it's not. It's fraud. It's a crooked lawyer: a member of the Bar. They suggested arbitration where both parties have to agree to participate if arbitration is to take place. DUH! This woman will not agree to arbitration. She wants us to just go away. So in short, the Florida Bar has proven to be totally useless to us. Kind of like the police union defending bad cops.
Click here to see their response
I also contacted a few civil lawyers. That was as useless as the Bar. The first two I contacted didn't even want to know anything about my case until I paid them a $250 consultation fee. One of them, didn't even want to read a summary of the case via email, -to see if he would accept the case- unless I paid a consultation fee... How pathetic! I swear, I cannot comprehend their logic. Nevertheless, I will continue looking for someone hungry enough to take this case on, regardless what it cost to set this horrible woman straight. Hopefully, get her disbarred. I'm sure she'll try to sue me for libel -good luck with that you alredy took all my money- if and when she reads this story. It will be posted on every consumer advocate site I can find. Check back for updates. UPDATES
UPDATE 04/19/2022
So, our first court date was on March 16, 2022 at 1:30pm Court room 2-7. Ironically, it was the very same court room, & judge; Myriam Lehr, that we were assigned to in defense of the injunctions. And, just like before, we had to wait FOREVER (an hour or so) in the lobby, to just get in the court room, and then we watch lawyers and court staff going back & forth trying to check every one in & prepare for court session to begin. Never seen such disarray in a courtroom.
For some reason, we were the last case called; an hour later. I was so tired & stressed out over this. Not necessarily the case itself, but all the waiting to get in & to be called. So, finally were in front of the judge. She seemed nice. The lawyer we are suing, looked like hell; to me anyways. Her hair was all scraggly, like she just rolled out of bed, the make up didn't look much better and that skin tight, leopard print dress; OMG! Like a scene out of a movie.
Well, right off the bat, she moved to Dismiss because I had filed the case under her name instead of her corporate name. My bad; I'm not a lawyer. The judge however, didn't grant her the motion. She wanted us to go to mediation. She had the bailiff set a court date for May 2, 2022 at 3:30pm via zoom. In the interim however, she filed her motion to dismiss and I filed a motion for leave to amend the complaint. Another Zoom date was set for those motions. The original date was set for April 11, at 3:15pm. However, on the 11th, in the morning I received a notice that the session was changed to April 18th, at 11:15am.
April 18, we were on time; logged in 15 minutes early. We weren't let into the court session until 11:23am, but we were done by 11:28. Her motion to dismiss was granted, and so was my motion to amend. While she granted her motion because the retainer contract that I had attached, did have her Corporate name on top, it was an incorrectly written contract. Noone enters into an agreement with a stationary header; even if it is her corporate name.
The retainer contract stated:
"I Marc Buck, hereby retain "you" as my attorney to represent me with respect to Domestic Violence/two-Three court Appearances."
What kind of an agreement is that? Is it even valid? Shouldn't it have read something like:
Whereby Mr. Mark Buck, & Mrs. Stephanie Morrow of S.G. Morrow & associates, PA enter into the retainer agreement herein, for representation in the injunction of Sexual Violence, case # xxxxxx.......
I mean, she's a lawyer, can't she write like a lawyer? I wouldn't want her to write any kind of contract for me. Anyways, at the end of the day, it does not matter. I'll amend the complaint, and we start over again.
Here is the retainer from our the lawyer who took over the case, it also had a letterhead:
Marc Buck hereinafter referred to as the "Client" retains and employs Izquierdo Law Firm, P.A., hereinafter referred to as the "Firm," to represent him/her in his/her case involving the charge/matter(s) of Permanent Injunction for Protection Against Domestic Violence in Miami-Dade County, Florida (Case Number: 2020-000577-FC-04). The Client agrees to pay Izquierdo Law Firm, P.A. as follows:.....
Now, that wordage, properly enters Marc Buck & Izquierdo Law Firm, P.A. ( Not "you") into a retainaer agreement, indicating both parties and the case description & case number to be litigated.
Let's see how it goes at mediation. I don't anticipate that to be fruitful at all, So I'm ready for my day in court.
Check back for updates after mediation set for May, 2nd, at 3:30pm.
Posted on: Wed Apr 20, 2022 06:54 AM
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