When you are injured due to someone else's negligence, you will need compensation as soon as possible. However, your attorney may delay your compensation due to their unprofessional behavior. If this is the case, you will need to find a disciplinary complaint form that you can file against your lawyer.

Communication Issues with Your Lawyer

Your lawyer must maintain regular contact with you. A lawyer should return emails and phone calls or at least have a paralegal message you. Failure to respond to messages can be a justification to file a complaint, especially if the issue you need to talk to your attorney about is urgent.

Your lawyer might also choose to take action without your permission. For example, your lawyer may choose to settle your case against your will. While a lawyer can advise you to accept a settlement, you may prefer to spend more time pursuing a larger settlement. 

After your case has been settled, your lawyer could also choose to hold onto your settlement check without informing you. Your lawyer might even lose the settlement check and not take the actions necessary to remedy the situation. Unprofessional behavior like this can be a justification to file a complaint.

Conflict of Interest

A lawyer might fail to disclose that the plaintiff you are taking legal action against is also a client of your lawyer, which would represent a conflict of interest. Your lawyer might fail to disclose that they have a relationship with the plaintiff in some other way, such as through familial ties. In other cases, the lawyer might do something foolish, such as revealing confidential information to the plaintiff.

Outright Crime

Some lawyers commit outright crimes. For example, a lawyer might steal funds that were intended to be used for another purpose or they might misuse them. Even temporarily borrowing funds is an ethics violation.

Your lawyer might have attempted to take advantage of you when you were incapacitated. After becoming injured, you might go through a period where you are not of sound mind and a lawyer might use this opportunity to make decisions that are not in your best interest. 

Improper Termination

A lawyer is allowed to end a relationship with a client. However, the lawyer must do this in the proper way and cannot simply end the relationship abruptly. If your lawyer has committed any of these actions, find attorney disciplinary complaint forms for sale to file against your lawyer.