Fighting For Your Inheritance
Fighting For Your Inheritance
Nobody Likes Motions to Compel:
Plaintiff attorneys don’t like them because they aren’t paid an hourly fee to draft them; Defense attorneys don’t like them because they know how effective these motions are at slicing through their procedural gamesmanship; and Judges don’t like them because these motions take up valuable court time with juvenile spats…
Responding to written discovery can be overwhelming. In most cases defense attorneys send the bulk of written discovery early on in a lawsuit. This discovery generally includes Form Interrogatories, Special Interrogatories, Requests for Admission, and Demands to Produce. Due to the size and expansive scope of this discovery one can become overwhelmed by it and…
I’ve used my iPad for about a year now. It has changed the way I practice law—mostly for the better. Here’s my list of top 10 iPad apps for lawyers:
1. GoodReader. I recently appeared at a motion hearing where I was opposing a motion for summary judgment. Before the hearing, I was able…
No contest clauses were originally referred to as “In Terrorem” clauses. In Terrorem is Latin for “To Scare the Pants off my Beneficiaries”—loosely translated. And that’s what a no contest clause is supposed to do, prevent a trust or will contest by disinheriting a beneficiary who dares to contest the terms of the instrument.
California…
