What happens with adjournment wihtout consent? 5 Answers as of May 21, 2012

I have had a personal injury case in progress since 2008, and was awarded 550,000.00 against one of the two Defendants. I was supposed to go to trial against the second Defendant for fraud and concealment of assets on April 23, 2012, only to receive a letter from my attorney that it had been "Adjourned", after a week of unanswered phone calls and emails, I found out today that my attorney dropped the case, and adjourned everything, without my permission, or knowledge. Can he do that, can I refile, is there anything I can do to correct this? I am in the process of trying to collect on the 550,000.00 (because my attorney wanted to play golf, and didn't have time to spend on my case, it allowed them time to hide assets). I have since taken it upon myself to find a collection attorney, and dig up documentation of assets. The second Defendant had to pay 10,000.00, in 2011, in a separate action, but the attorney kept all that money with the exception of 1200.00, which he so kindly dained to give me after I balked at his first plan to keep it all.