What if... you hire an attorney while manic, the attorney finds out early on that you have bipolar and you were in a mental hospital, continues to represent you and asks for more money for the retainer. You sign a contract that does not say anything about billing. He never mentions that he bills for phone calls or email. You never meet him face to face. You cancel his services during the depression. You email him dozens of times for a refund but he never responds. You have to text his wife to get a response. He makes up excuses about his email being set up wrong and getting a new billing system and will email in a few days with info on the refund. He does and the bill has nickel and dimed me, 200 here 300 there.... and out of a 3,000 retainer I am supposed to get back 165! The only thing he did was file initial paperwork.... totalling about 500.... we never went to court or met in person... everything else was email and phone calls. Is this right? Is there any way we can get legal help when we do things in a manic state? Or are we just screwed?

I told him he took advantage of me and asked him if he could lower the bill. He responded first with all of the reasons why he was being fair, but when I told him the contract did not specify charging me for email and he did not say he would verbally either.... well he hasn’t responded....

Any advice on what I could do? I think if people know we have a mental illness they shouldn’t be so quick to take our money. I really feel like he did.