As you might gather from the headline, my opposing counsel on a case is not just a new attorney but a millennial new attorney.
She unfortunately is living up to, if not proving the negative stereotypes about millennials.
She represents two clients: Child 1 and Child 2, the children of the sister of my client.
The sister, who has passed away, was the conservator for the mother.
Sister and Child 1 during the conservatorship, provably proceeded to embezzle or misappropriate over $100,000 from the mother's accounts and hide that until the sister's death and the mother's death soon thereafter. We don't think Child 23 had anything to do with it.
My client, the son of the deceased mother, discovered the misappropriations when he became the estate's personal representative.
In short, he offers to divide up the estate with the children of the deceased sister receiving a share equal to his minus the 100,000 they have already taken.
Rather a fair offer, that.
Our Millennial Attorney declared that to be mean, and such an offer was "threatening".
No kidding.
Since then, she has refused and failed to respond to emails, including discussing potential resolution of the case and emails from the court mediator.
Mediator sent out an email in early February for dates in March for the mediation, as there is a mediation cut off date of March 20, and we had proposed March 12.
Our Millennial Attorney does not respond at all.
March rolls around and millennial attorney has still not responded so I send out an email at the start of last week asking if March 12 is going forward.
Millennial Attorney finally responds that March 12 won't work and asks for dates in April - past the mediation cutoff date.
Mediator gives some April dates and I reply with some matching dates, noting the scheduling order now needs to be changed.
Millennial Attorney does not respond at all to either of us.
I email Millennial Attorney asking her to draft up a stipulated amendment to the scheduling order as we're now going to be late due to her delays.
Millennial Attorney does not respond.
I also email Millennial Attorney about accepting service on a related complaint against Child 1 and deceased sister for the misappropriation.
Millennial Attorney does not respond.
Yep, she is freaking ghosting me.
Millennial Attorney also does not answer discovery requests I had sent to her in January. This hoses her client nicely as she didn't respond to Request for Admissions which means they are deemed admitted. Oops on her part, as this will certainly help at trial.
I have to, and do a motion to compel her to answer the interrogatories and document requests and file it with the court. And I ask for sanctions.
I expect she may answer that, likely a day to two before the hearing so I can't get a reply brief in.
Again today, I email her with all the outstanding issues: The mediation, changing the scheduling order dates, and if she is accepting service for the complaint and asked her for the courtesy of a reply.
I'm not holding my breath waiting for an answer.
Sigh.
1 comment:
Wow. The trial will be lit when the defendants find out just how little Miss Millennial has done for all the money they have paid here.
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