FinanceGeek
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I have been engaged with an attorney doing some estate planning work for me. Per his engagement letter I sent him a fee to retain him for this work, the work itself was to be time and materials based. It has been several months now, and he has completed the work I hired him to do. During this time he has never sent me a statement of the time he spent, the charges being accrued, etc.
I have asked him point blank about a month ago if he would close out this engagement (since the work he did for me is done) and send me a reconciliation of his charges versus the monies I paid - I strongly suspect there is a balance due in my favor. But, to date, he has not done this.
Can anyone tell me what is typical of attorneys behavior in this area? I guess the next obvious question is "where to go next"? How to get this guy to settle up with me, etc.
Obviously I'll never use him again, should have sought out an attorney who would quote a fixed price, my bad there. But I'd like to get back whatever balance of funds remains that wasn't used in his engagement.
Advice?
I have asked him point blank about a month ago if he would close out this engagement (since the work he did for me is done) and send me a reconciliation of his charges versus the monies I paid - I strongly suspect there is a balance due in my favor. But, to date, he has not done this.
Can anyone tell me what is typical of attorneys behavior in this area? I guess the next obvious question is "where to go next"? How to get this guy to settle up with me, etc.
Obviously I'll never use him again, should have sought out an attorney who would quote a fixed price, my bad there. But I'd like to get back whatever balance of funds remains that wasn't used in his engagement.
Advice?