Civil Law Time Limits A Cheat Sheet for California Lawyers, by California Lawyers Hello Counsellor: Here is a handy guide for quickly reminding yourself about those pesky deadlines that are forever haunting the solo practitioner. BUT, please be advised that this is NOT a substitute for homework, AND YOU MAY NOT RELY on these dates [...]
Never, and I mean never, allow a client to “thread emails.” Disaster looms.
On occasion, I try to impart what I believe are “Helpful Hints for the Solo Practitioner,” having been in practice for myself for 20 of my 27 years since graduation. I started out with a bang; two moths into my own practice, I got a death benefits contingency case against a huge multinational company. Better [...]
Here’s a Helpful Hint for the Solo Practitioner, which came as a reminder from a friend: As a solo, and trying to bring value to a client, do not ever forget that we work for the client, and not the other way around. Forgetting who’s paying whom is a sure fire way to stop getting [...]
In these days of enormous economic stress, it is all too easy for the solo practitioner to fall prey to the promise of a case that will bring an hourly fee. Defense work it the most obvious; although there are actually people who don’t get it still, there is no contingency in defense. (true story, [...]