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How you get your legal expenditures back from the defendants

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Naomi

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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Show me the money! Resolving a settlement. 8

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Naomi

I feel impelled to correct my previous “show me the money” post. I re-read a letter I received from Medicare and gave them a call to find out what was going on. Here’s what I was told: Dinkes & Schwitzer … Continue reading →

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Get your file documents regularly from your lawyer

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Naomi

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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