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Retainers and legal fees: Costs and expenses from the lawyer’s POV
The financial accounts he kept in these early years of manhood reveal a meticulous man much given to recording every detail of his expenditures. If, when traveling on legal business, he had his clothes washed and paid a shilling to … Continue reading
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Retainers and legal fees: A well-written contingency retainer
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not … Continue reading
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Retainers and legal fees: Introduction to a well-written retainer
A well-written retainer letter, with a little personal history. Continue reading
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