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M1

WHAT DO I DO NOW?

You are hit with a curve ball. Has anyone else dealt with this situation before? In a big firm, you’d zap out an email, and get a wealth of institutional memory and history back, on tap. But how do you compete with the big boys? Even the odds. Consult with lawyers and experts who have been there, and are on your side. (Note: You might notice that some big law firms like to throw something strange at small law firms, to try to trip up small law firms with fewer resources.) Also other special services including federal practice (42 U.S.C. 1983 actions, RICO, IRS problems and administrative hearings

150.00

M2

DEVELOP A CRIMINAL DEFENSE POWERHOUSE

LPOC is founded by legal minds with proven success rates of winning over 90% of criminal defense cases. Could you expand your practice if people heard you had a success rate near that? LPOC can help expand your criminal practice, with all types of criminal cases, including DUI and other vehicular offenses.

150.00

M3

LPOC offers unique expertise in quashing indictments and overturning existing convictions. Can you get clients out of jail – after they’ve been actually convicted at trial? The founder of LPOC has done it – often. Get LPOC’s assistance annulling indictments, post-conviction relief, expungements, and writs practice i.e. audita querela, quo warranto, mandamus, prohibition, habeas, coram nobis, etc.

750.00 to 1,000.00

M4

Can you do two things at once? The law can be Feast or Famine… Now, we are available to draft pleadings of all kinds, including responding to all types of pleadings while analyzing the opponent’s documents.

Wouldn’t it be nice? Imagine driving madly from one Court to another across the State. But now you can be on the telephone with us the whole time, discussing your case with us, and telling an experience lawyer what you want written. Imagine having the motion, pleading, or opposition written by the time you get off the phone and park at your next court appearance or meeting. Too good to be true? Not any more….

You are the lawyer. All drafts are written for your final review and signature. But how much more money could you make, how many more cases could you take at the same time, if you could roll in from meeting an important client, and have the pleading sitting in your email in-box waiting for your final chop and signature?

You start out waiting for clients. Now suddenly you have 4 cases with urgent deadlines all at the same time. You can’t meet all the deadlines in all those cases. Nor do you want to kill yourself and have your wife or husband forget what you look like. One case may be the most important in terms of building future business, getting referral clients, building your reputation, and making money. But you can’t just ignore the other ones. Let experienced attorneys help you play catch-up on the least important cases that you wish to delegate… write up the complaint / motion for judgment, file exhibit lists, etc.

200.00

M5

You know the main points of your argument, and you have done the core research. But now you have to fill in citations to support tangential, threshold issues. Don’t you hate that? You feel like you’re done – with the main arguments – but then there are still lots of “unimportant” side points that all need legal citations supporting them? Just hand the pleading over to us, and all of those pesky “extra” details will magically appear.

150.00

M6

You know your case. But suddenly you need a routine motion, and your schedule is crowded. A motion for continuance. Affidavit. Service on the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Service by publication. Subpoena a witness. Motion to amend as a cover document, while you work on the main amended pleading. Motion craving oyer. Rule to show cause for a debtor or witness who didn’t show. Garnishment on a bank account. Motion to quash a witness subpoena. Wouldn’t it be nice to have people to do this for you? Let us do all that pesky “extra” junk

150.00

M7

Form jury instructions are basically useless, instructions must conform to your theory of the case. While you are scrambling to get ready for the trial, you may want someone to “have your back” when it comes to this crucial task. We will review the complaint and answer and of course follow your guidance, research the law, and then be available to discuss the proposed jury instructions before you finalize them.

200.00

M8

Search and Production of Discovery Documents (either electronic or paper): Of course you would do this yourself, if you had nothing better to do. But perhaps you could meet with and sign up 3 new clients in the time it would take you to handle a discovery request. From extensive experience, LPOC can efficiently determine what documents actually fit the terms of a request for documents. We can scour through your client’s documents to pull out which ones are responsive, make sure there is nothing privileged, organize the documents as needed, sometimes sorted by request number, get them bates-stamped and copied, and make the set presentable for delivery. We can travel to your client’s site, if you desire, for the added travel costs.

Remember that “self-production is no production” because clients usually do not locate most of the required documents. However, an experienced eye is needed to recognize what does and does not fall within the specifications of the request. Naturally, this service can also be used to locate documents that the attorney needs to find from your own client to present your case. (Photocopying and clerical at $35 per hour).

150.00

M9

It is a good idea before handing the opponent’s discovery requests to your client to analyze the requests and pinpoint and explain where the client actually has to answer, where the request is objectionable and (at least for now) will pull an objection instead of an actual response, and give detailed instructions to your client. Otherwise, the client is overwhelmed and intimidated, and spends lots of time answering questions that don’t need to be answered, and possibly panicking at the overwhelming burden. You can hand it to us to prepare instructions pinpointing what actually needs to be answered, and relieving your client’s concerns about the rest that can be ignored. (For example, the client does not need to provide documents they don’t have, yet many clients feel compelled to go researching documents they don’t have in their possession.)

150.00

M10

Deposition transcripts can be gold mines, but slogging through hundreds of pages can be an inefficient use of your time. Let us scour those dull pages to pinpoint potentially useful testimony, summarize it, and cite to page and line for you to follow up on. Let us find and pinpoint key facts – so you can cite them in your brief, motion, deposition, or in court.

150.00

M11

Some attorneys just don’t enjoy drafting discovery requests. Some of our teams loves doing this. We’re here to help.

150.00

M12

EMERGENCY LEGAL RESEARCH 911

You’re sitting in court, waiting for trial to start, and your opponent hands you a precedent you’ve never seen before. You could probably tear it apart… if you could be in two places at the same time. In a big law firm, you’d hand someone a note and it would get taken care of. We can’t guarantee we can always be sitting by the phone when each and every person calls. But at least you have someone you can try. We might be able to squash that bug for you. Try us. (Schedule permitting.)

250.00

M13

CASE LAW RETRIEVAL

Your opponent cites an obscure source of law, such as an administrative ruling, or you find a tantalizing clue. Do you want to take your time to run down to a law library? We can go pull the document for you. $50 per hour plus copying costs and any parking costs.

150.00

M14

PARALEGAL/DICTATION

Imagine: You have 45 minutes for lunch in the middle of a trial. You forgot to send a fax to opposing counsel in a different case. What if you could pick up the phone, dictate a fax, and have it sent, while you are standing on the courthouse steps on your cell phone?

75.00

M15

FIND ME AN EXPERT!

Whether it’s something unusual or just trying to wrestle with people’s schedules, you may not want to spend hours on the phone chasing down potential expert, checking their availability, etc. One of our clients facing a cruelty to animals charge needed an expert in humane techniques for training dogs. Another expert had to opine on a reasonable cost for painting a house. Instead of chasing down such details, your time might be better spent working directly with your client or signing up new clients. $50 per hour for researching possible experts, contacting experts, working with schedules, providing documents and information, etc. $100 per hour evaluating the expert’s credentials and suitability and reviewing the issues the expert will be asked to address for ATTORNEY.

75.00 to 125.00

M16

LOCATING A COURT REPORTER

This should be a snap, shouldn’t it? But have you ever tried to do this? Have you ever spent a couple hours on the phone frantically dialing all the court reporters you can think of to find someone who is not busy that morning? Nobody told you that next week was going to be the busiest week of the year for some strange reason. Dear God, what if you forgot and are calling at the last minute? It’s been known to happen. It’s nice to know there is someone you can turn to and say “Find someone!” while you prepare for the hearing.

100.00

M17

LOCATING EXPERT WITNESSES

Sometimes it’s just a lot of legwork and a lot of phone calling, to find someone who is willing to testify… even on minor issues.

100.00

M18

LOCATING ATTORNEYS IN OTHER STATES

Do you need a debt collected in another state (debtor moved)? Or a deposition in another state? Try our rolodex and growing database of contacts. We may be able to find you the contact you need. Beats having you spend your time dialing the phone all over the country.

100.00

M19

PROOFREADING PLEADINGS AND “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT?”

It’s happened to everyone. You finish an important motion and you just want some feedback. Does it get the point across? Are you too close to the trees to see the forest? Let experienced personnel take a second look. It’s your pleading. But some discussion, brainstorming, and a second look might give you some ideas.

150.00

M20

DRAFT of CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR TRIAL (remotely)

The closing argument / motion to strike can be the most important part of a trial. Best practice is to draft a closing argument in advance and then plan the trial around what must be presented to win in closing. Some experts suggest that you should start working on your closing argument at the beginning of the case. While you will want to have the final say, you can have an associate attorney give you a huge head start. One of our attorneys can review the pleadings and discovery before trial and create a first draft of what points must be proven in order to win. We will create a draft for the closing argument and/or motion to strike the evidence (or opposition).

250.00

M21

DRAFTING PETITIONS FOR APPEAL

Get assistance from an attorney experienced with appeals in either the highly specialized format and/or style of legal pleading and advice on the issues to attack. Review of transcripts if you desire to look for likely grounds for appeal. (We do not advise on meeting deadlines, etc.)

350.00

M22

WITNESS REHEARSAL (conducted by telephone)

If a minor witness or even your client is going to be questioned by the other side, you may simply want to prepare them to make sure they are not tricked by confusing questions. Rehearsal and preparation involves preparing them for standard techniques and situations that they may be confronted with. You might not have time to run through a private and confidential rehearsal or preparation session. (Live rehearsal in person is available locally, if near one of our associates geographically. See local services)

150.00

M23

PREPARE EXHIBIT BOOKS FOR TRIAL

We will take your exhibits loose from you, organize them into binders or whatever format you instruct, with tabs, exhibit stickers, in the right number of copies. As the attorney, you may also request that we generate an exhibit list to be filed X days before trial.

150.00

M24

SKIP TRACING / LOCATING DEFENDANTS or WITNESSES / ASSET SEARCH FOR COLLECTIONS

150.00

M25

INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES (phone)

A minor witness might be a waste of time or a goldmine. While you are focusing on the most important witnesses and issues, you might task one of our associates to follow up with minor leads. Nationwide, we can do this by phone. Or we can do this in person where locally available nearby us.

150.00

M26

MORTGAGE EXAMINATION, TO SEE IF MORTGAGE is LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE

Analysis of mortgage transaction to expose legal defects, as shown on http://www.mortgagefraudexaminers.com.

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M27

TRANSLATION

Translation of some languages is available. Please inquire. Translation of a document may be available nationwide. Live translation in a meeting, courtroom trial, or meeting available as a locally-available service if geographically near to our translator’s location.

130.00

Even if you work in a big law firm, for reasons of office politics, you might not want to ask someone in the firm and let people know what you are still learning. Ask us confidentially.