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If it’s prelitigation, then maybe they’re just not interested in settling or the initial demand was sky high and not worth wasting time/money discussing. I’ve had a handful of cases disappear by simply ignoring or going MIA.
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OP, knowing that, my money is on the client stopped paying, attorney fired client or vice versa
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If they were small, shady businesses, there's a decent chance they stopped paying their counsel.
You are correct. The firm should respond and say they are not representing the client anymore.
At my prior firm, I had to sometimes ghost plaintiff’s counsel in prelit communications because the client wouldn’t respond to me, provide me enough info to respond, or just wanted me to not reply and see if plaintiff filed a complaint.
There are ways of giving plaintiff’s counsel a hint at what’s going on without breaching attorney-client privilege, usually best communicated over the phone. But sometimes you really aren’t in a position to say anything.
Yeah, I guess I thought they would return my call and just kind of hint at the situation, or just say, I don’t think we are interested in negotiating right now. But I suppose that might not work under these circumstances.
Certainly as a plaintiff’s attorney, we sometimes lose contact with clients and it can get awkward. But we can’t just go silent forever because we are the ones driving the ship, so eventually we have to come up with something 😆
Defense side employment attorney here.
Often when this happens the client has instructed us to just ignore you. We can give our advice and say it’s best to respond to prevent litigation, but it’s their final call.
Also a plaintiff-side employment lawyer, and this has happened to me plenty of times. Sometimes it turns out that the client stopped paying their lawyer. Small business defendants also sometimes do the turtle tactic, going into hiding and hoping you go away. I’ve also had cases in which the non-responsive defendant hired a new lawyer after I filed a complaint, which suggests that the initial lawyer dropped the ball. The defendant might also be testing you, thinking that you’re bluffing and wouldn’t sue them.
I’ve had this happen a few times. I usually email something along the lines of: “I would appreciate the professional courtesy of a response. Please let me know if your client is no longer interested in settlement discussions so I can advise my client accordingly.” That usually does the trick and I’ll get a response one way or another.
I definitely sent a similar email dropping the “professional courtesy” line and got zip.
They either aren’t getting paid or your demand was too big to warrant a response.