I Will Help You Build
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Dec 21, 2019 | Law Practice
I have always wanted to start a book about my first few days of practice as follows: “I should have known I was in trouble. I was surrounded by lawyers.” This seems to go back to the more basic question whether a particular person should choose to become a civil...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Dec 11, 2019 | General, Law Practice, Legal Issues & Procedures
In my last case with the State of Oregon, several counties sued the state for over a billion dollars. They alleged that the state had breached a contract with them for high timber harvests and therefore higher timber generated payments. The issues in the case went all...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Nov 12, 2019 | General, Law Practice, Legal Issues & Procedures
This post assumes a typical large commercial or government lawsuit in federal court where the complaint or some version of it has survived motion practice. The next step in the litigation is discovery. Here, I will explore what discovery is and what it means to the...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Nov 1, 2019 | General, Law Practice
Law firms come in many sizes and characteristics. Some are solo practitioners. And some are behemoths of hundreds of lawyers and 10s of offices. Today my plan is to tell you 6 things you should know about the behemoths. The lawyer you hire is not the one who does most...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Oct 31, 2019 | General, Law Practice, Legal Issues & Procedures
When I started law school I was required to buy a lot of books. Two of them were books titled Civil Procedure and something like West’s Court Rules. The Civil Procedure book was a case book, and the Court Rules was a compendium of rules. I was also given a reading...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Oct 25, 2019 | General, Law Practice, Legal Issues & Procedures
We have seen that litigation is best practiced as the art of telling stories. This post explores how that process begins, because the start of litigation can be very formal. The trick is to get the story of the plaintiff or defendant through the formality that begins...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | Sep 6, 2019 | General, Law Practice, Legal Issues & Procedures
Do not ever believe that litigation will be easy. This holds true no matter how good your case or just the cause. However good your case, the lawyers on the other side will find every blemish, every mistake and will develop a model of the facts and law in which you...
On behalf of The Law Office of Frank Hammond LLC | May 23, 2019 | Firm News, Law Practice
Lawyers bill for their services in a variety of ways. Plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers usually bill on contingency. And some cases are billed by the task. But billing by the hour is still the primary way lawyers charge for legal work. To the neophyte, a “billable...
