3 Things Clients Do That Make Their Own Legal Case Harder
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Tim Miranda, CFLS
What to expect
Your attorney can only do so much if you’re accidentally making your own case harder.
In this clip, an attorney breaks down three things clients should stop doing: constantly calling or emailing about minor issues, distracting their lawyer during court, and giving the other side unnecessary ammunition by ignoring orders or responsibilities.
Better communication, better courtroom behavior, and following instructions can help you avoid unnecessary legal bills and prevent avoidable problems in your case.
Transcript
"Stop sending emails and calling all the time whenever the wind blows. It's expensive. We have other cases to work on. Your case is just as important as everybody else's, but it's finite. There's only so many hours in a day, even if you work all the time and on weekends. When you send emails and you call about trivial issues or redundant things, all you're doing is generating a large bill for yourself and wasting time. Don't do that.
Number two, same concept but when you're in court, when your attorney is trying to speak to the judge, when your attorney is questioning on examination, when your attorney is arguing, don't scribble notes, don't whisper, don't make gesticulations, don't distract, and don't look like you can't control yourself in front of the court.
If you have a question, if you have a comment, if you think something needs to be addressed, write it down and in the appropriate moment, pass it to your attorney so they can review it.
Number three, I would say stop doing the things that you're doing that are making it easy for the other side. What does that mean? It means whatever's going on in your particular case that you're giving them rope to hang you with.
Like what? Like violating orders related to a visitation, like not doing something that you're supposed to do, like signing a document in a timely matter.
Whatever it is, don't give them free goals. Don't do it."
