A little while ago I posted here regarding my belief that alternatives to hourly billing were best in many, if not most, cases, including family law cases. Ben Stevens at the South Carolina Family Law Blog has taken up the issue. Here is Ben’s latest post on this subject (and, for what it is worth, [...]
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It has long been my belief that the billable hour system, by which many attorneys charge their clients and earn their livings ( and as I do, too for some matters, by way of disclosure) creates an inherent tension between the attorney’s interests and those of the client. If the attorney is being paid by [...]
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Many of you may have heard something about the so-called “racy” billboard that Chicago area lawyer Corri Fetman put up to advertise her divorce law firm. The billboard , which read “Life is Short. Get a divorce ….” received a lot of national press, in no small part because of the scantily clad male and [...]
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Divorce Magazine offers a description of the various “judge types” who may sit on your family law case. While I have some disagreements with some of the descriptions, and some of them are a bit redundant, there are more than a few grains of truth in the piece. I have run into most of the [...]
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Ben Stevens of the South Carolina Family Law Blog published this interesting post on this question:
Parties involved in Family Court cases face some of the toughest issues that people must deal with in their lives. Divorce and separation cases involve the loss of a partnership and the end of a relationship that was once close [...]
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One of the most frequently discussed issues among attorneys os whether to provide free consultations or to charge for the intial appointment. While, in my experience, the majority come down on the side of charging at least some nominal fee for the initial consulation, there are good arguments on both sides of the question. Christopher [...]
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The Winter 2007 issue of Family Advocate (not yet available online), a publication of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association is devoted to the subject of electronic discovery. The issue contains a wealth of information that ought to be of interest to ALL family law lawyers, as well as any lawyer that [...]
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Lawyers and dentists share some things in common. No one likes to go and see the dentist, and no one really enjoys a visit to the lawyer. If it is a family law lawyer, odds are pretty good that the circumstances that bring you to the lawyer’s office are not happy ones, or necessarily of [...]
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On January 1st the Asbury Park Press ran this piece on West Long Branch lawyer Ron Rosen. For anyone considering getting into this area of legal practice, or who is wondering what it is like to practice family law, the article on Rosen provides a pretty decent glimpse.
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