Legal writing and research is all I do—all day, every day. Your appeal, complaint, motion, or agreement will not be done in haphazard “breaks” from other tasks. When I start a document, I am dedicated to it, from start to finish. I am consummate at what I do, with an unbroken and proven track record of excellence, first in law school and then across the full spectrum of legal fora, and I truly love doing it.
As a commercial litigation associate for five years, primarily dedicated to legal research and legal writing for a small but powerful law firm in Park Ridge, IL, I became the “go-to” person for any pleading, motion, or other legal document needing to be written and filed, and also researched and drafted a number of appeals in several jurisdictions, including commercial arbitration, with a high success rate.
Since then, as a solo practitioner, I have researched and authored everything from corporate bylaws, covenants not to compete, and commercial leases (and negotiated better terms for my client) to discovery on cases worth tens of millions of dollars to successful appellate briefs and responses to motions for summary judgment. I have also worked on multi-jurisdictional cases and some of the largest mergers in history worth billions of dollars, doing e-discovery on second-request matters involving the DOJ, the SEC, and the FTC.
In addition to my extensive experience drafting filings in litigation, motion practice, discovery, and appeals, twelve years’ experience on the litigation end of contract disputes affords a bird’s-eye view of how best to craft an agreement that fully honors the parties’ intents yet contains all the provisions designed to protect your client the most.
Contracting my services frees you up for more pressing matters such as an upcoming trial or deposition, and it generates additional profits for your firm in the process. Under ABA Formal Opinions 00-420 and 08-451, costs billed to a client for a contract lawyer’s legal services are permitted a surcharge by the billing attorney so long as the total charge is reasonable. The Opinions also make clear that disclosure to the client is not even necessary, so long as the contract attorney’s work is either “supervised” or “adopted as the work of the retaining lawyer.”