Your attorney signs your pre-settlement funding agreement because Go Philly Funding is repaid from the same settlement your attorney will be handling for you. Your attorney isn't approving or denying your funding. They're confirming the arrangement exists so repayment happens correctly once your Philadelphia personal injury case resolves.
If you've searched something like "my lawyer won't sign the papers," or you're stuck wondering "can my attorney deny me, can he legally do that," the answer is usually simpler than it feels. Repayment has to route through the same place your settlement proceeds do, and your attorney has to know that before it can.
What Is My Attorney Actually Being Asked to Do?
Your attorney is being asked to acknowledge that Go Philly Funding's advance exists, and to send repayment from your settlement proceeds once your case is successful. If you want to know exactly what the document commits your attorney to, ask us and ask them. That is a reasonable thing to want in writing before anyone signs.
Settlement proceeds in a personal injury case are received and disbursed through your attorney. That's the reason this has to run through them at all. It isn't extra paperwork for its own sake.
Can My Attorney Block My Funding?
Two different things are going on here, and separating them helps.
Whether you qualify is Go Philly Funding's decision. We look at your case, not your income or your credit, and we do not ask your attorney for permission to approve you.
Getting the money to you is the part that needs your attorney. Repayment comes out of settlement proceeds your attorney will be handling, so without their acknowledgment the arrangement has no way to work as designed. If your attorney will not sign, that does stall things, and we would rather tell you that plainly than pretend otherwise.
If your attorney has raised a concern, that's worth hearing out. Ask what it is, specifically. We don't know why any individual attorney hesitates, and it isn't our place to guess.
What If My Attorney Hasn't Signed Yet?
Ask your attorney directly what's holding things up. Then let us talk to them. Go Philly Funding coordinates with Philadelphia-area attorneys on exactly this, and it's part of how we work.
A case sitting for months doesn't automatically mean something's wrong. In the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, cases move on tracks that run 13 months for expedited matters, 19 months for standard cases, and up to 25 months for complex ones, counted from filing. Settlement conferences typically fall six to twelve months after the case management conference. And 95 to 98 percent of civil cases resolve before they ever reach trial. If you're a few months in and asking why hasn't my lawyer done this yet, there's a real chance you're inside a normal court calendar, not an actual holdup.
If you're also wondering whether your attorney can just advance you money directly instead, we answer that separately in Can My Lawyer Advance Me Money While My Case Is Pending?. Short version: generally no, and that's part of why pre-settlement funding exists.
If you're waiting on a signature and the bills aren't waiting with you, reach out. Applying takes only a few minutes at gophillyfunding.com/apply, and once we have what we need, we can talk to your attorney directly to help sort it out.