How Not to Get Screwed by Atty

my experience with lawyers was greatly enhanced by having read this book. OK it may be elementary to those more experienced than I was at the time I read this, but if all I learned was that lawyers work for you and not the other way around, it was worth it. Now the lawyers should read it. MY experiences with lawyers can be summed up by what one told me. "I won't do what you ask because it is an unusual thing to do." With the help of this book, I found a lawyer was willing to try something "unusual" and it turned an adversarial situation into a win-win one. This book made it easier for me to have a good working relationship with a responsive lawyer. The best quote is on page 67: "Your lawyer's only duty is to advise you of the legal risks involved in a deal; it's your call whether to ake those risks."

This book helps you to put attorneys into a solid perspective that can ensure that you not only don't get screwed financially, but also get an attorney that is qualified to do the job you hired him to do. An excellent book. The only reason that I didn't give it a 10 was that I got depressed reading about all the ways attorneys screw their clients. But in spite of that, the book was rather fun to read. It had many interesting anecdotes and illustrative stories.