To fire or not to fire

[Macatoni]

What is the name of your state?AL I have had it with my attorney. I hired him on a contingency basis. Throughout this entire case (3 months and now it is settled awaiting disbursement of payments) he has taken decisions upon himself that were against our wishes and counsel, as well as against our best interest. He appears to have put aside our welfare for his own. He has pursued actions in direct opposition to what we have asked and/or agreed upon. For example, we agreed to release the lien on a house in trade of a dismissal of a wrongful retaliatory eviction (we are part owners of these houses). We told him to not release the lien unless he had in hand a written copy of the Motion for Dismissal. Instead, he took the word of the opposing attorney, released the lien on the house and let the sale proceed. We find out a day later that the Motion for Dismissal was written by the opposing attorney to open us up for another lawsuit in the future. NOT at all what we agreed upon. When we tried to discuss this matter with him and his error, he told us he did not want anything more to do with us and hung up on us. Can we fire him? What would be the ramifications? He warned us that if we challenge his fee, he would tie up the funds in court, even after our repeated protests of his actions. How do we handle this situation of a break-down of the attorney-client relationship?