The collaborative process will generally be your preferred option if, like in mediation,
you want full legal representation from an attorney during the settlement negotiations, but, unlike mediation, you want the negotiations to take place in a supportive, rather than an adversarial, environment.
Unbundled legal services are for those clients who do not
want full legal representation, but rather want an attorney to help them with limited, one - off, discreet tasks.
Not exact matches
It's
full of fine print and
legal - speak, and if you sign without
legal representation, you risk being bound to terms you don't understand or don't
want.
I do
want to give you one example though, which is at the Rise Women's
Legal Centre we've had clients come in with literally suitcases
full of documents from over a decade of not having a lawyer and what means is that something that could have been resolved fairly simply at the front end, if they had been able to access even summary advice at the beginning, let alone some minimal
representation, they might have had their family law issues resolved much earlier.
Few, if any, law school classes allude to the realities of well - documented and hardly «new» changes in
legal practice including: the «vanishing» trial, clients who no longer
want to buy into the paternalism of the I'll - take - care - of - it - for - you model, or the extraordinarily large number of self - represented litigants who can not afford
full representation.
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Want to do your part in filling the
legal aid gap but don't have the time to provide a needy client
full representation on a pro bono basis?