About an average of 23hr of work, supposedly. As a true example-- one of attorney's best friends actually paid over $23,000 for legal work which included one trial (custody) with no experts. All of the nickel and dime-ing for every single second of work adds up very very quickly--every stamp, every piece of paper, every email, every call, you name it. [Attorney herein believes the same case could have been done for about $7000 or less...]
IN many cases we have seen, most attorneys don't do anything that special, unless they are really dedicated. We have actually seen motions filed and continued which probably took 20 minutes to churn out by the assistant, got the client no relief at all, didn't change anything in the case except to avoid a long cause hearing, was not heard by any judge, and then it just gets done over again by the attorney going to court and RE-submitting the same thing? This is not a joke. Sure there were a few emails and emailed conversations, and more of the same motion being continued and refiled? When that client's bill is approaching $7,000, we say that's called not only bad lawyering, but a client rip-off in our opinion.
Now when attorneys in the old days were billing (and by this, we mean PRIOR to everyone owning a computer, everyone on the Internet, and Facebook, and PRIOR to most services NOT requiring client to even come into the office????)........... then attorney overhead had to include taking the office RENT, all utilities, whatever things are needed for an office; the office employee's salaries, ALL of the expensive print advertising, ALL of the stuff needed to keep current on the law (meaning PRINT and books...and all subscriptions in print)...........and then, most attorneys figure out what it's going to cost them to LIVE (not work, but live)............and by adding up all those numbers (what it costs to live and what it costs to maintain the office/ads/subscriptions,etc) then the attorney would take that number, and figure out if he/she worked 40, 50, or 60hr a week, what SALARY is needed for the attorney, in order to meet all of those expenses, PLUS additional money to have [not just to live on.]
Clearly, if an attorney is figuring $5,000 for employee salary/office and $5,000 for living expenses, the attorney needs $10,000 just to run the office/live. That doesn't include tax money being set aside either. That's $2,500 per week. Many attorneys have no problem turning $2,500 per week. At 40hrs per week, if an attorney was actually charging $275/hour, that's $11,000 a WEEK--- if-- the attorney worked 40hr straight at the billable fee.
Office costs might remain the same, but the Internet and non print data have created far less cost as far as law advertising goes. Internet advertising is much less expensive than print advertising. Many attorneys don't keep hard copies anymore, they keep DATA files. Even the Courts are moving to all data files. Why pay an attorney huge fees unless you definitely have a very very complicated case?
It's safe to say, this attorney herein, does nothing remotely even close to the nonsense talked about above (regarding the huge fees for very little time/work...) Attorney works harder than 95% of attorneys out there, to gain a result for client, not to line attorney's pocket. Attorney's cases have been in the media, in newspapers, online, in Verdict Search, and on television.
Most of the cases involved family law and animal law issues; the Verdict Search case involved premise liability in a murder case. And not just in Chico, Oroville, Red Bluff or Redding, but Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Roseville, San Diego and even Washington.
If you don't want to pay full price and get nothing, then contact attorney herein. Full authentic recommendations from actual clients.
Chico Family Law Lawyers - Justia
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