Relating to your own attorney as the client
Put yourself back in the leather chair, and imagine for a minute that another lawyer has walked into your office and has hired you to represent them. What are some things that are going through your mind? Pride, perhaps, that another colleague would pick you to litigate their case. Maybe anxiety over being able to […]
Welcome to my blog!
I love what I do for a living! I am entering my third decade of the solo practice of law, and I can’t think of anything else I would rather do. Every day, I get to make a living helping other people. Part of what I do is answering questions for people who have never […]
Don’t be your own lawyer!!!
If you are thinking about representing yourself in a divorce, I want to share with you a chapter on the book I am writing for lawyers going through divorce. This is the chapter about whether a lawyer should be their own lawyer. (spoiler alert–the answer is NO!) Should you be your own lawyer? Should you […]
You are the boss
When clients meet me for the first time, one of the things I try to do fairly quickly is to give my client a sense of how I see the attorney-client relationship. People in my line of work are called attorneys, counselors, and lawyers, and sometimes we wear different hats depending on the circumstance. One […]