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We offer a variety of services, details of which are given below. Services are billed per hour for the
work you actually need done. Billed to the nearest 5 minutes. Credit card or advance deposit required.
Please note: If you ask can you afford our services, you are asking the wrong question. As an expense
of your client’s case, you will normally bill our services to the client just as you would bill for
a paralegal, expert, or other support staff. It should not cost you any money of your own to provide
better service to your client. |
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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
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150.00 |
| M2 |
DEVELOP A CRIMINAL DEFENSE POWERHOUSE:
Lex Consulting 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? Lex Consulting
can help expand your criminal practice, with all types of criminal cases, including DUI and other vehicular
offenses.
However, Lex Consulting offers unique expertise nationwide in overturning existing convictions. Can
you get clients out of jail – after they’ve been actually convicted at trial? The founder of Lex Consulting
has done it – often. Get Lex Consulting’s assistance annulling indictments, post conviction relief,
expungements, and writs practice i.e. audita querela, quo warranto, mandamus, prohibition, habeas, coram
nobis etc. |
200.00
500.00 |
| M3 |
OVERFLOW WORK: SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE & GUARD AGAINST MALPRACTICE:
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. |
100.00 |
| M4 |
LEGAL RESEARCH FILLING IN CITATIONS IN YOUR MOTIONS AND PLEADINGS:
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.
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100.00 |
| M5 |
MUNDANE PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS:
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.
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100.00 |
| M6 |
JURY INSTRUCTIONS:
Whether you want them in draft or final form, jury instructions can be that one major task you didn’t
budget time for. 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.
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150.00 |
| M7 |
DISCOVERY SWAT TEAM:
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, Lex Consulting
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).
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100.00 |
| M8 |
ANALYZING DISCOVERY REQUESTS:
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.)
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100.00 |
| M9 |
DIGESTING DEPOSITIONS:
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.
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100.00 |
| M10 |
DRAFTING DISCOVERY DOCUMENT REQUESTS AND INTERROGATORIES:
Some attorneys just don’t enjoy drafting discovery requests. Some of our teams loves doing this. We’re
here to help.
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100.00 |
| M11 |
GENERAL LEGAL RESEARCH:
You can do more if someone can extend your time.
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100.00 |
| 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.)
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150.00 |
| 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.
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100.00 |
| 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?
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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.
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50.00 to 100.00 |
| 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.
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50.00 |
| M17 |
LOCATING EXPERT WITNESSES:
Sometimes its just a lot of legwork and a lot of phone calling, to find someone who is willing to testify…
even on minor issues.
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50.00 |
| 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.
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50.00 |
| 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.
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100.00 |
| 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 headstart. 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).
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150.00 |
| 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.)
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300.00 |
| 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)
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100.00 |
| 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.
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50.00 |
| M24 |
SKIP TRACING / LOCATING DEFENDANTS or WITNESSES / ASSET SEARCH FOR COLLECTIONS :
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50.00 |
| 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 cand o this in person where locally available nearby us.
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100.00 |
| M26 |
FORENSIC EXAMINATIONS OF MORTGAGE TRANSACTIONS TO STOP FORECLOSURE
A couple of years ago we started getting lots of calls from attorneys
around the country asking, how do you win foreclosures cases, so we
decided to start a firm that dealt directly with that problem. Hence,
Mortgage Fraud Examiners. Reports of legal defects, as shown on: 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.
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65.00 |
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WHAT DO I DO NOW? CONSULTING ON SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE LAW OR PROCEDURES
Even if you are 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. |
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