Go to: Peer Review Ratings This is Martindale Hubbell's Peer Review Ratings for lawyers and law firms in the U. S. My son gave me the link; he is on faculty at a state university school of law. Martindale Hubble is the sine qua non for finding competent legal services. Your present lawyer appears to be incompetent and avaricious; finding that out this early in the case is money well spent. Leave him. If you can accept where you are right now, as if you had chosen it, your change in perception will bring a deeper understanding and intelligence to dealing with the situation, both now and as it unfolds (With props to Eckhart Tolle). And do Google "Legal Aid Services for Nurses in "; seek and you will find! Positive thoughts!