Where can I hire a GOOD Entertainment Lawyer?

[marques00789]

Hello everyone, I am 21 years old young entrepreneur and got 2 investors to put up money for my concert. I am suing 3 national recording artists from a concert back in August 2008. They all showed up like 5 hours late causing my company a $90k show. We hired a lawyer about 3 weeks after the event occurred to try get matters sorted out with, maybe a settlement or go to trial. When hiring him, he said that he was going to try get a settlement before trying to go to court to save time and money. Its now over a year later, we haven't stepped foot in a court room or nothing. And why would he try file papers to the court over a year after they weren't looking to settle, shouldn't that be days after they weren't looking to settle? Anyway, its over a year now and that should take that long to get a court date. When calling our lawyer, he comes up with these excuses on why its taking so long, giving us BS stories,and giving us the run around. Its hard to contact him, he returns our calls when he feels, his voicemail is always full, doesn't answer emails, doesn't gives us updates haven't heard from him in over a month. From the time that we hired him, he sent out requests for settlement agreements and they didn't want to. Its over a year ago and we still are at square one. Last time we talked, which was almost two months now, he claimed that he sent out some letters taking them to court, that was months ago and 2010 August will make two years and nothing has happened. Should we report him to the Bar Association and try to get our money back with this coward as well, what should we do?

[LSnyder]

Hi Marques

You can hire a good Entertainment Lawyer right here! Our office specializes in Entertainment Law. We offer a discounted rate of $50 for a 1/2 hour initial consultation. This is basically a question and answer session with one of our attorneys. Where is it that you are located?
We are in NJ and can do a phone consult or an office visit. Please email or call me if you are interested. My contact information is in my signature as well is our website which you are welcome to take a look at as well.

Lisa

[rdc]

Marques,

You might check your state Bar Association's web site... Generally every state has what are called Rules of Professional Conduct (or "ethics" rules) that require attorneys to keep clients informed on matters. Furthermore, if your attorney has been negligent in management of time (e.g. it's now too late to file an action on the breach of contract and you are screwed), he may be liable for professional malpractice, and would be the only party you could still recover from. For the former, contact the bar, for the latter, contact a legal malpractice attorney.

Sorry to hear you got such a bad attorney.

[DerekS]

Sounds like he's being a lawyer. It's in his (and the other side's) best interest to drag this process out. More cost to you, and a deferred (potential) judgment for the defendant.

Did you guys actually file a lawsuit? What has the process been so far? If he claims he's going to get you a settlement without the suit filed, he's full of it. We used to get threatened with lawsuits all the time and wouldn't give them a second look until we were served papers. Even at that point we'd just commit ourselves to pushing it off and requesting stays or extensions until we were either forced into court or the other party gave up on the suit.

There are plenty of other aggressive lawyers out there, but I don't think you want an entertainment lawyer. Why are they going to bite the hand that feeds them? You need a shark of a litigator- one who will go for the jugular and won't be sh*tting where he eats (which is the case when you hire an entertainment lawyer to go after the same people that they solicit business from.)

[rdc]

I'd agree with DerekS... Unless the "entertainment lawyer" you hired is also specialized in business/contract litigation, he may not be the best choice to sue someone. Why he would lie to you and drag you along is beyond me, though... I don't know what he could possibly have thought would happen. Though, I'm also not quite sure why you would have waited so long to notice something wasn't right with that situation.


Regardless,get a commercial litigator for the original matter. Then get a malpractice litigator to take care of the crappy attorney...