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Preliminary investigation: Before finding a lawyer
A quickie here, supplementing yesterday’s piece about my valiant—if counterintuitive—efforts to save my building by getting it violated. The Department of Buildings does much more than send out inspectors (although since NYC is now publicly up-in-arms about illegal apartments that … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged co-op apartments, co-op disputes, discovery documents, Law and government agencies, property investigations
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What was Alexey Navalny, Russian hero, doing 6 years ago?
On April 20, 2011, I posted a piece about the discovery process in lawsuits, specifically referring to a guy we now read about every day, because he’s leading–with great courage–the Russian resistance to Putin. Navalny’s focus is on corruption in … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order
Tagged corrupt corporations, discovery documents, financial misfeasance, fraud, Law and government agencies, legal causes of action, self-serving corporations
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So why are legal documents such lousy reads?
With a bravura quote from the Marx Brothers, I begin an interesting take from a legal genius on why we non-lawyers find it so impossible to read legal documents. Continue reading
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Tagged discovery documents, how lawyers drive clients crazy, Interpreting lawyers, Law and the bible, Lawyers, legal language, omnibus motions, Proprietary Leases, the Marx Brothers, the power of the word, Understanding lawsuits, William Tyndale
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