Legal Skills

• The way to go is pay-as-you-go legal consultant. This comes with a contract.
• For dishonorable clients - once you catch them on a couple of lies - they are liars. Strategy: anticipate they lie they tell, and figure out what I need to show to expose lie.
• How to introduce witnesses at deposition or trial
• How and when to address the judge. All info directed at judge, not opponent
• How to depose - how to invite someone to deposition and how to negotiate them to come if they are not willing
• How to serve somebody. How to find their address etc.
• How to produce or negotiate documents from a government agency
• How to change or remove attorney
• Deposition costs - $30-65/hr, plus $2-4/page transcript. One day is thus $400+ 25 pages of deposition per hour = $800.b [1]