Any lawyer here that can answer this please??????

Question

I was the plaintiff in a civil case and lost the jury trial.

The defense lawyer won so therefore filed a motion for attorney fees in excess of $100,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Is there a chance the judge grant this? The case was in Los Angeles County.

The facts of the case:

It was NOT a frivilous case. The damage we were seeking was less than $5000. T

The defense won because their lawyer played dirty. They erased video tape of the incident. They hid witnesses for years. They filed motion after motion for 3 years delaying the trial. I mean the defense lawyer provided an evidence the day of the trial for god sakes!!!!!!!!

I did choke on the witness stand and contridicted some of the facts but I was nervous but I was pretty consistent with the facts otherwise.

So anyone think I end up having to pay this $100,000 in attorney's fees? If so I would become destitute!

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Answer 1

Small claims is 5k and under?
100k?
LOL
yea right tell em to go to hell and file a complaint with the state bar.
California is a liberal state and loves to see it's own suffer. Send him to the lions, send him to his own kind

Answer 2

Well, I'm not lawyer, but I'm records management for a national corporate law firm. It sounds to me like you're pretty screwed. That's what these lawyers do. They have the time and money to bend the rules where you would not. If you're so sure that they played dirty, then look into getting a private investigator. If they can prove that what the attorneys did was unlawful, then you could probably get the case overturned on technical stuff. But otherwise, yes, you can definitely end up paying that bill. Happens all the time where I work.

Answer 3

You could well have a very serious problem here. If the defendant spent that $100,000 in defense fees to win that case and you lost entirely, you may well be found liable for the defense expenses of the defendant.

While I sympathize with your situation, lawyers do what they are paid to do. These lawyers were paid to have their client found not liable, and they apparently did a good job of it.

Now the tables are turned, and they're looking at YOU to cover all the money they spent defending themselves from your lawsuit.

I can only recommend seeking the services of a highly qualified legal firm to pull your backside out of this one. And do not be surprised if your legal bills to such a firm exceed the amount of the claim.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

i think that you should just be grateful that you have to be highly recommended for the sake of arguementive punishable differences of the ambient isomiatic particle discriminator which could be why they choose you to pick on i mean come on now anyone who doesnt know what standing room only means at a sporting event has to be pretty gosh clueless not to mention if you are really are unknowing of said items then it is totally possible that these lawyers knew that ahead of time and decided to take full advantage of you and if you let them then i guess that is what you deserve it is called karma and people who are really and truly clueless will be karmailized by thier very own how do i say this nicely and put it into words you can understand...can you spell and read...oh well the only thing i can really tell is that poo poo occurs