LAWYER USE FIVE AMAZING TRIKS

•  Stealing money from blocked accounts 

so sneaky, it's illegal. Very rare, but arrives. All states have programs (funded by state lawyers) that compensate clients who lose money for the benefit of their lawyers. The problem: in most states, the amount of repayments is capped.

• Accumulation of billable hours 

 this is probably the # 1 complaint against lawyers. The fact is that it is impossible for anyone to know exactly how much time a lawyer spends on a question. Does it take 2 hours to write a brief, terminate or revise a contract? Or 4 hours? There is no absolute. The best protection for the customer is to negotiate a fixed price. The problem is that any lawyer who accepts a lump sum payment can not do his best work when the head is closed. In addition, the lawyer is likely to accept a lump sum and be overwhelmed by unexpected claims from the client - this is a recipe for the problem.

• Title insurance

not well understood. In many states (including those where I practice), a lawyer's income from title insurance can be substantial. Lenders require title insurance up to the amount borrowed. However, the owner is not obliged to purchase title insurance for its net worth (value on the mortgage). A real estate lawyer must give his client a full explanation of the property insurance and indicate who earns what premium.

• Success Fees 

 Some lawyers add "success" fees to their fees (in addition to billable hours). This may be appropriate when the goal of success is agreed in advance during an open discussion between solicitor and client. But when the lawyer is left to his discretion to define a "successful" conclusion, guess who gets the tree sometimes?

• Sloppy and lazy lawyer 

 to me, the insidious thing about lawyer # 1 is not being up to the care a client should receive. The fact is that in law, since the lawyer knows much more about the subject than most clients, the client often has no idea of ​​the quality of the work done. Thus, a lawyer can confuse and manipulate a client at the beginning of the relationship (raising unreasonable expectations) and at the end (distortion of the result).