Attorney Lied To Me Saying He Attended My Court Date For A Speeding Ticket. Just Got A Default Judgement In The Mail.

Can someone please help with this? I had a speeding ticket for going 16 over the speed limit. Hired an attorney to contest the ticket. I have an email thread with evidence he said he’d attend. I confirmed over email multiple times that I do not need to be in attendance. When the court time passed and I didn’t hear back, I followed up with him.

He said he was “just about to write to me” and that he found out in court that the case got rescheduled. Fast forward two weeks later and I’ve received a default judgement. What do I do?

Edit: adding to this, I had received a Notice to Appear for the original date and the listed attorney for me was his partner in the same law firm, who is CC’d on the entire email thread. He confirmed he had also received the letter, and that she will be in attendance.

Edit 2: Weirdly enough, the default judgement letter was mailed on the same day as another Notice to Appear (for the same speeding offense). That makes me want to believe his story that the court date got postponed. But then why would I get a default judgement mailed to me on the same day they mailed that out? Also, the new court date has already passed. I’m going to call my attorney tomorrow to see if he attended that and didn’t update me. I’ll also call the court to confirm because I don’t trust him anymore. I don’t know what to make of the default judgement letter anymore though.