Go to a litigator that is, an attorney who specializes in suing or defending from lawsuits, not someone who specializes in contracts, real estate closings, or wills. Ideally, you would go to a litigator who has handled similar cases, but that's not actually all that important your question describes a fairly straightforward case, which any litigator should be able to handle.If you had a written contract and the contract specifically said that in the event of a lawsuit, the loser pays the winner's legal fees, you could recover your legal fees. Otherwise, though, in U.S. law, each party pays it's own legal fees and cannot recover them from the other side, absent special circumstances or certain non-contract causes of action, which do not appear to apply.