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Sokoll V. Feuer Summary

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COMPLAINT Frances E. Sokoll filed a complaint against Attorney Jeffrey Feuer on October 21, 2014. Sokoll alleges that Feuer did not return her calls regarding the status of her case, and as a result she requested that he return her file and check. When Feuer did not do so, Sokoll filed a complaint with this office; Feuer has allegedly violated Mass.R.Prof.C. 1.2, 1.3, 1.4(a), 1.16(d). FACTS On September26, 2013, Sokoll hired Feuer to handle a discrimination case involving her former employer, Luminosity Behavorial Healh, Inc. The fee agreement states that the following legal services will be performed: “Prosecution of disability discrimination case against Luminosity Behavioral Health, Inc. in Stouhgton, Massachusetts. Send demand letter, file and prosecute claim with Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.” Sokoll alleges that she had called several times looking for an update on her case and never received a response; she spoke once with Feuer in the winter of 2013, Due to the lack of response, Sokoll asserts that she requested her file back, as well as the retainer check for $2500.00. …show more content…

Feuer responded on January 2, 2015, with a very brief response explaining that due to other cases and his own health issues he had been unable to work on Sokoll’s case, and that he had since returned Sokoll’s full retainer fee and documents. In response to his explanation a follow up letter was sent by bar counsel on April 6, 2015, seeking a copy of the correspondence providing the return of Sokoll’s retainer, as well as more in depth information as to the delay in returning the retainer fee, and Feuer’s understanding of the statute of limitations in this

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