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The good plaintiff divides obsession into compartments
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.– William Wordsworth, Character of the Happy Warrior I learned how to compartmentalize in two stages, each separated by a lot of years. When … Continue reading
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How you get your legal expenditures back from the defendants
If your lawsuit is not on a contingency basis—that is, your lawyer isn’t paying all expenses in advance, to be reimbursed out of the gross settlement before you get your share—then you’ve been paying your lawyer an hourly fee and … Continue reading
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Tagged Experienced plaintiff, hourly legal fees, keeping record of legal expenses, legal contingency cases, Legal fees, what "contingency" means
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Get your file documents regularly from your lawyer
In the past two weeks I’ve run into two incidents involving legal file documents. First incident? Me. After I managed to embarrass Dinkes & Schwitzer into sending my file — you might remember that throughout my entire personal injury case, … Continue reading
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Tagged changing lawyers, Experienced plaintiff, Interpreting lawyers, keeping legal files, legal contingency cases, legal files
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