No one likes to receive a letter from a lawyer, especially one claiming that you’ve done something wrong, like infringing someone’s copyright. That’s exactly what Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc., and its proprietor, Robert Stevens are doing: employing law firms to send demand letters to people who might have a photograph
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There are good ways and bad ways to choose a lawyer. I pull back the curtain and reveal some insights into how the legal profession operates, and how clients can use that knowledge in evaluating and selecting an attorney that will fulfill your legal goals without breaking the bank.
How to Copy-and-Paste Text from a PDF to Word in Seconds and Make It Pretty
Now that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure require parties to prepare their responses to written discovery (interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admissions), lawyers and support staff need to become efficient with creating their response documents based on a PDF-version that was served. Sometimes it can be difficult
Continue readingUpCounsel Gets It Wrong, Again
So I finish writing a blog post about blatantly false information purveyed by attorney referral service, UpCounsel (which claims it isn’t a referral service, but that’s exactly what it does), and saw, after mere seconds, more false information. This time UpCounsel says that provisional patent rights “are in force between
Continue readingUpCounsel Provides False Information on Design Patents
Rely on UpCounsel.com to your detriment. The web is full of poor, and sometimes completely false, information. I recently came across a site that has been popping up in the top results when I’m searching for certain legal information: UpCounsel.com. These sites are usually just portals to hiring an attorney,
Continue readingCredit Card Fees and Florida Statute 501.0117
After the Florida Bar changed its rule on credit card fees, an attorney reached out to me still worried about whether lawyers in Florida could lawfully pass on the costs associated with accepting plastic. His concern stemmed from one of Florida’s consumer laws—a “no surcharge” law—that purported to prevent nearly
Continue readingMiami-Dade Summons Fillable Form
You know what’s annoying? Finding a form online that isn’t fillable. You know what’s even more annoying? Having a form with additional pages that require re-entering the same information from the first page multiple times! Well, the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts has just such a form for a civil court
Continue readingGriffin Klema Quoted in Florida Bar News on Credit Card Fees
Attorney Griffin Klema has been quoted in the Florida Bar News on the Florida Supreme Court’s recent approval of an ethics rule change allowing lawyers to pass along credit card fees to judgment debtors and parties entering into settlement agreements. I am pleased that Floridians now have greater freedoms to
Continue readingFlorida Bar Ethics Committee Proposes Change to Credit Card Acceptance Fees
[bctt tweet=”Fla. Bar proposes change to ethics rule on credit card fees. Rule 4-1.5(h) ” username=”KlemaLaw”] Recently I felt compelled to see if I could have an impact on all Florida attorneys and their practice. Currently, the ethics rules prohibit lawyers from charging a losing party (or their client) the
Continue readingThe Creative, Solution-Oriented Lawyer
Does your lawyer offer solutions or just answers? In part two of evaluating your attorney, I explore something that is often killed off inside the mind of law students as they make their way into the ranks of practicing lawyers: creativity. Like my last post on attorneys who are client-oriented,
Continue readingA Client’s Legal Billing Woes
Ever have a concern about your legal bill? Have you ever questioned your lawyer about it? Here is some unspoken insight on how your lawyer may view you when you question a legal bill. Does your lawyer even care about your goals or your budget? Or are you just a number, some quantum of dollars? Read on to see how lawyers responded to a client’s concern…
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