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  • 1.  Taking difficult cases

    Posted 06-16-2018 08:54 PM
    I'm considering taking a case where I'd be lawyer #4. I know two of the prior attorneys and the problem wasn't with them. In other words, a difficult case and potentially difficult client.

    The few times I've jumped in on one of these, I lay down ground rules at the beginning if I'm going to take the case at all (aside from an unusually high retainer in light of length of proceedings and acrimony). For example, communicating by email only (rather than rambling calls) unless it's a dire emergency, and stressing that the client is going to listen and take advice if I'm going to stay in.

    I'm wondering what other ground rules others might establish (or if there are any good "primers" / articles on these situations to which someone might have a link).


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  • 2.  RE: Taking difficult cases

    Posted 06-19-2018 11:32 AM

    I'd put in the retainer an easier option to withdraw as counsel. Maybe a fee shifting clause for a motion to withdraw? Maybe an unbundled retainer to get to a  specific point and then the representation automatically ends with option to renew?

    Tom King

     

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