Legal Skills
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- The way to go is pay-as-you-go legal consultant. This comes with a contract. If hiring an attorney, always use notice and conssent of limited representation. The concept is - either you run the show, or the attorney runs the show. Each has its flavors.
- 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
- Changing Attorneys
- Deposition costs - $30-65/hr, plus $2-4/page transcript. One day is thus $400+ 25 pages of deposition per hour = $800.b [1]. Depositions can be anywhere from 15 minutes to days. You may pray for recovery of deposition costs.
- RJI stands for request for judicial intervention and assigns the case to a judge.