May 25, 2009
What happens when you send a letter to someone and that person has moved? Your letter will automatically get forwarded for the first 12 months after the service. But you won’t get the person’s new address.
Here’s how you can have the Post Office automatically send you the new address: Just place “Address Service Requested” on [...]
March 19, 2009
There are now all sorts of articles about how lawyers have lost their positions. Carolyn Elefant has detailed the problem in Legal Blog Watch as has Bruce MacEwen in his Adam Smith, Esq., whom she cited.
As they noted, some out-of-work attorneys have started volunteering to do pro bono work as a way to keep busy and to keep their morale up.
Some time [...]
February 3, 2009
We’ve all heard about setting fixed fees for certain kinds of litigation. But this is the first time that I’ve seen a site in which an appellate firm lists a schedule of its fees for certain kinds of work.
For instance, the firm, The Bartlett Law Firm, APLC, lists its fee for writing a principal brief [...]