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Help! What can I do about my legal problem with used car sales men and lawyer with conflict of interest?

Long story sum up... Bought a 1997 Ford Probe 2 years and 2 months ago. Gave me problems from day one. Things were supposed to be fixed and never were. I get a lawyer. I gave him some original documents. Used car sales man is now telling me I only paid 23 payments when I am sending out my 26th and final payment this month. Lawyer has a few of my written receipts given to me when I paid cash. Turns out Lawyer and an employee of the place I got my car know eachother. Now the lawyer hasn't done anything to help me and has yet to answer my calls about trying to get my paperwork back. AND Now when I try to contact the owner of the business the guy I originally worked with is saying he no longer works for the company and that the owner moved to FL. The ex salesman is telling me he will contact the owner then tells me he cant give me the owners number because he doesn't have it. I need serious legal advice/information here. I have already contacted the BBB and nothing was ever said. I have been getting the run around for forever. Now I feel like I am getting screwed worse then I was. There is MUCH MUCH more to this story but not enough room to type it all. I could have gone for lemon law if the lawyer didnt screw me over too. What can I do to get my paperwork back and to make this whole mess go away. PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Public Comments

1. get another lawyer
2. File a complaint against this lawyer with the state bar, the state Attorney General's Office and the local District Attorney's Office. Also write some letters to the local newspaper and contact the consumer action lines of any of the local TV and radio stations. Many of them have consumer reporters who handle cases like this. Be prepared for some resistance at first, but be persistent. Twenty years ago I had a problem with an attorney who embezzled some money from me. I filed complaints against him and nobody took me seriously at first. However I was persistent and insisted that they investigate this guy. The end result is that the Attorney was prosecuted, found guilty, sent to prison and disbarred. That is a problem with Atorneys. Many of them are just there to take your money and not do anything for you.
3. Definitely try to get in touch with some from your state's attorney general's office. What state are you in? I can help find the contact information for the AG office. Another option is to try and get help from a local tv news station consumer watchdog group.