- Professional Masteries: In the exercise of representing clients during the past twenty-eight years the ability to perform the following tasks, at the highest level of client satisfaction and to the most stringent personal levels of achievement, without sacrificing character or empathy, has developed talents only experience and maturity can yield, to-wit:
- Representing clients in court and before quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government
- Handling all details in preparation for trial and presentation to a court or jury of those matters
- Gathering evidence for cases to form a defense or to begin legal action
- Organizing, indexing and quickly accessing vast quantities of material
- Being thoroughly familiar with courtroom rules and strategy
- Examining and cross-examining witnesses
- Presenting evidence that supports a client in court
- Summarizing cases to juries and other tries of fact
- Filing and arguing appeals
- Thinking quickly and speaking with ease and authority
- Performing in-depth, high quality legal research
- Interpreting the law and applying it to specific situations
- Writing reports, opinions, motions, pleadings, interrogatories, legal briefs and appeals
- Preparing legal documents and agreements of every description
- Suggesting particular courses of action in business and personal matters
- Extensive use of computer database research
- Computer literacy with the ability to diagnose and repair many hardware and software problems
- Thorough understanding of office equipment in the law office environment
- Use of Internet to market practice, research, and network with other lawyers and professionals
- Extensive knowledge of interviewing techniques with clients and witnesses
- Ability to compromise and mediate disputes to client?s satisfaction
- Advising cliets as to legal rights and responsibilities
- Determining the courses of action which best serve the interests of clients
- Counseling clients as to their legal rights and obligations
- Instilling trustworthiness in confidential matters
- Understanding the problems of others
- Influencing people's opinion, attitudes, or judgments
- Having agreeable work relationships with others
- ESSENTIAL PROFESSIONAL DEMANDS:
- Adhering strictly to the profession?s code of ethics and behavior
- Paying attention to detail
- Reasoning clearly and logically
- Dealing effectively and professionally under pressure
- Taking criticism from clients, attorneys, judges and others
- Communicating clearly and effectively in speech and writing
- Being polite with a courteous, efficient and even tempered manner
- Making decisions based on personal judgment and experience
- Attending State Bar approved continuing legal education seminars and self study to stay current
- Vigorously representing the interests of a client within the limits of the profession and the law
- OTHER VARIATIONS ON LEGAL TALENTS:
- Acting as trustee, guardian, and executor in fiduciary relationships
- Teaching college law course in business law for five years
- Supervising legal assistants, secretaries, and other employees
- Performing arithmetical operations quickly and accurately
- Learning to be a patient, loving, firm, supportive, and ever present father to my children.
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