CBROUGHTON SHEDLICK, PLLC

Dear [redacted] ,In response to the complaint sent in by [redacted] .Prior to the court date, MrPeter N [redacted] (who was working for us at the time) drafted a lease agreement for the tenantThis was NOT a sales contract but a lease with an option to buyThe landlord was the prior owner who then lost the property through foreclosure to a new owner who purchased the property at a foreclosure sale.The subsequent eviction action was scheduled for a date on which both myself ( [redacted] ) and [redacted] (my colleague) were already booked for existing clientsFortunately, both our cases were in the same courthouse as [redacted] 's caseWe instructed her that if the case was called before [redacted] could arrive, to ask the judge to pass the case to the end of the docket [redacted] called MsB [redacted] at our office, who repeated the same advice.I finished my case and immediately went to where [redacted] wasI found [redacted] there already, negotiating with the new owner's lawyer, MsF [redacted] For his part, [redacted] 's arrival had been delayed through no fault of his ownAfter his prior case was done, he tied going to this one, only to determine that the docket had incorrectly identified the courtroom [redacted] 's case was supposed to be heard inEven so, he tracked down the clientI arrived shortly after he didBoth of us made diligent efforts to take care of this matter despite the fact that both of us already had existing cases to handle, again fortunately in the same courthouse.I know the landlord's lawyer to be honest, that is, a lawyer faced with an opposing party represented by counsel will avoid direct communication in the absence of the client's attorneyThe client should have told MsF [redacted] that [redacted] would be representing her, in which case MsF [redacted] would have waited until [redacted] (or myself) showed upIgnoring all this advice, [redacted] went ahead and spoke directly to MsF [redacted] , negotiating a lease extension or new lease without the benefit of our advice or representation, despite having hired [redacted] and knowing he would be coming after finishing his existing client's matter.Her options in renegotiating the lease with the new owner are limited, but we would be willing to help herto the extent possibleTo the extent any confusion or inconvenience was caused by us, we heartly apologize.CBroughton S