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Preparing for Your First Meeting
There are preliminary steps you can take to have a quality first meeting and be better prepared for legal action when you hire us.
Our Approach to Mediation
We’ve developed a process for handling cases, including how we approach mediation. Even when we’re hired late in the case, if the circumstances permit, we'll still implement the process.
Trial may cost less than a bad settlement
When you are considering settlement in a family law case, you need to think about different kinds of costs: the cost of trial and the future cost and consequences of a settlement that is less than ideal.
Getting Around Hearsay
Day-to-day conversations are called "out-of-court statements," and many of those statements fit the definition of hearsay.
How to Answer Bad Questions
There are several concepts that are important for every potential witness to understand in order to have a level of comfort with giving testimony. There are many factors that can impact your credibility.
How to Testify Well
There are several concepts that are important for every potential witness to understand in order to have a level of comfort with giving testimony. There are many factors that can impact your credibility.
How We Handle Cases
All legal disputes are ultimately about facts. For any fact that is important to a case, there is more value establishing that fact through the opposing party than proving that same exact fact through you, the client.
Experts in Child Custody Cases
In contested, high conflict cases involving children, sometimes professionals are designated to work with the parents and children.
The Discovery Process
Lawsuits, including divorces, involve a clash of different perspectives and different sets of goals. Each side is able to obtain information from the other side and from third parties. This is called the discovery process.
Depositions
A deposition is where lawyers question someone who has been sworn under oath. If you are involved in any kind of civil lawsuit, including a family law case, you may be deposed and your witnesses may be deposed.