Reporting for the week the bill arrives.
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An opinion on what a first-time client should assemble before a consultation about damp, dust or fumes, and the ordinary habits that quietly weaken the case.
Joaquin Salcedo·Legal·4 min
The first-timer's instinct is to go over someone's head. In the US the sequence is what opens the outside step, and skipping a rung usually closes it.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Legal·5 min
A first-time client hears a rate and assumes it covers the problem. In the United States it is quoted against time and a scope, which is a choice other countries did not make.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Legal·5 min
In a health-related property dispute, the strongest records are usually made by people you never think of as parties: the lab, the clinician, the logging device.
Joaquin Salcedo·Legal·4 min
Which records hold up when a dispute goes formal, how the rules on electronic evidence shifted, and what other countries assume about who hires the expert.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Legal·5 min
A family spent eight months treating a child's cough before anyone connected it to a bathroom ceiling, and the records they already had decided what their first legal meeting could do.
Joaquin Salcedo·Legal·5 min
A settlement decision turns on the cost of the next stage and the wording of the release, not on the gap between what you asked for and what you were offered.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Legal·4 min
A legal quote is always priced against a unit, and the unit, not the number, decides what you end up paying.
Eleanor Whitcombe·Legal·5 min