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I have a personal injury case.  The lawyer is working on a contingent fee.  As far as I can tell he is going nothing.  He doesn’t return my phone calls.  He has had my case for six months and no lawsuit has been filed or, if it has, nobody has told me it has.  I have lost confidence in this lawyer and want to fire him.  However, I can’t afford to pay him for whatever work he might claim he has done.  What should I do?

First, I would encourage you to give the lawyer one more chance to explain what is going on and why he will not respond to you.  If you had a good reason to hire this lawyer in the first place, you should make an effort to give him a chance to explain his conduct.

If you hired this lawyer on a whim, or if you feel you have given him plenty of chances and you have lost all confidence in him, you can fire him whenever you want to.  More importantly, you almost certainly do not have to pay him at this time  for the work he has done.