We here cannot judge the practice standards of other lawyers because there are as many practice standards as there are lawyers. Otherwise, we could...

There is no question here. However, this attorney-client relationship is the standard among mothers who have had their children removed by the...

This is one those "one lawyer told me" situations which leaves us not knowing what happened. We do not know the type of case, in which court, and...

There are some pieces missing here. It is apparent that this couple very properly and wisely separated without government/court intervention as...

This question seeks a general response to a very broad question, and the response is also very broad. The attorney gets two payments, the one under...

Much of legal practice and the law in general is an illusion. It is a multi-part entity where the input may have no relation to the output. Here,...

We here really cannot step in and offer opinions as to what is happening between a lawyer and his client. We cannot see the retainer agreement and...

There are no ethics concerns whatsoever here. Verbal agreements between lawyers and clients do not count as more and more statutes and local rules...

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We do not have a transcript of the interaction between the parent and the son's attorney, so we must guess. In any case, civil or criminal,...

This asker has not realized that his opponent in the matter is the judge who must enforce cockamamie laws and the prosecutor who presents a flaccid...