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Do-it-yourself products - Why not be your own Attorney? Would you consider doing your own surgery? No, because you don’t have the experience to make
decisions necessary to successfully complete it on
yourself. We suggest the same should be true in legal matters.
The years of specific training and years of experience give an attorney the background and knowledge to guide you through the pitfalls and minefields of the
matter you are dealing with. Self-help programs
sometime give you a document, but these documents are generally meaningless and not personal to the individual or the individual’s needs. The disclaimers as to the provider’s lack of legal responsibility should be enough to make people shy away from this “surgery on
oneself.”
Self-help programs and forms don’t educate the individual to the problems and procedures critical to the area or task. They often leave the individual an accident waiting to happen, requiring much greater costs to clean up the mess later, than had things been done correctly from the start.
Compare experience, hourly rate, and possible
penalties of flat rate billing. John Whitmore has been in practice for over 39 years dealing with most legal matters. He has worked to keep his hourly rates
comparatively low. Few attorneys with over 25 years in practice have hourly rates less than $200 per hour and many are significantly higher.
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