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Will and Trust Litigation by Stewart Albertson
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Will and Trust Litigation
What is A California Trust and Will Litigation Lawyer?
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It takes knowledge and experience in two district areas, trust and wills and litigation/trial, to make a California trust and will litigation lawyer complete.
What You Need to Know When an Estate Plan Goes Awry: The complex road of successfully bringing a lawsuit for attorney malpractice in California Trust and Will cases
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There are times when people try to implement an estate plan, but things go awry. And that can happen when an attorney makes a mistake in drafting a California Trust or Will resulting in legal malpractice.
Bringing and prosecuting a legal malpractice case against an attorney who improperly drafted a California Living Trust or Will…
Form Interrogatory 15.1: Show Me Your Facts
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The most important interrogatory in California is Form Interrogatory 15.1. Propound it; meet and confer on it; file motions to compel on it. Make them give you their facts, witnesses, and documents supporting their denials and affirmative defenses. Form Interrogatory 15.1 is the great equalizer in California trust and probate litigation.
TextExpander Significantly Shortcuts Your Discovery Workflow (And Everything Else You Do Too)
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In one of my recent blog posts “Become a Discovery Ninja” I set out my workflow for responding to discovery requests. The most important rule of my workflow is to respond to the discovery requests within 48 hours of receiving them. I’ve had several attorneys ask me how I can do this so quickly in…
Become a Discovery Ninja: Setting up a Workflow for Responding to California Discovery
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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…
Due Process Can Feel Unduly Burdensome: Why does our Court system take so long to do…anything!
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One of the hardest things to understand for people who do not have experience with our judicial system is the amount of time it takes to resolve most matters in court. Why the wait? In part, it’s due to the backlog of cases in most courtrooms and the lack of funding these days to hire…