I Just Need To Know What Kind Of Lawyer I Need To Search For To Take This On.

Michigan state. Father in law passed, husband is the executor and sole beneficiary. We are VERY interested in pursuing legal action against a financial institution that had a large class action lawsuit ruled against them for failure to protect their customers against anti-money laundering and fraud. My father in law should have made a claim but didn't, and the time to do so is now closed. We want to pursue it individually on behalf of the estate. We knew that he was scammed but we didn't know the extent of it until he passed and we pulled his bank records.

It's an eye watering sum of money. I have a ten inch stack of original receipts showing a six figure sum over the course of 7 months. It led to him losing his farm land, very expensive farm equipment, and his main source of income. He died in the middle of a chapter 13 bankruptcy unable to retire and working insane hours as a forklift driver trying to prevent the creditors from taking his house. Damages are in the 7 figures and I am not exaggerating, it's nightmare fuel and an extremely unfortunate circumstance.

I am not looking for a lawyer on reddit, I am trying to figure out what kind of lawyer(s) I need and how to go about finding them. Right now we have a probate attorney and bankruptcy attorney but neither had contacts for this kind of thing. I've tried contacting the state bar and will try again today but haven't received a response. My husband and I are well off and don't need the inheritance. There is plenty of money left to pursue it due to a life insurance policy that went to the estate. It paid off the bankruptcy and we want to use the rest to pursue this.