A Detailed List of Tasks Performed by Our Lawyers

A Detailed List of Tasks Performed by Our Lawyers
The process of divorcing your spouse entails many tasks and activities. Some are performed directly by our attorneys, others under our lawyer's supervision. What follows is a detailed, but not exhaustive, list of the things you can expect us to do in pursuit of your best interest.

Consult with you in person, and over the phone, during normal business hours.
Speak to others over the telephone.
Investigate the law and facts.
Report to you promptly important steps in the case.
Explain the legal issues and practical considerations of your case.
Send you copies of pleadings, correspondence and other written material that we send or which are received on your case, unless restricted by a confidentiality agreement or a court order. (***add a link to Communications Between Our Office And You)
Review the documents that you send us.
Prepare a settlement agreement.
Prepare and file all necessary court papers.
Prepare or respond to motions to the court before trial for alimony, support, custody, visitation and matters necessary to protect you or your children.
Review with you questions that may be asked; advise you when you are questioned by your spouse's lawyer.
Prepare your other witnesses. (***Link to how to be a wittness.***)
Prepare your documents.
Hire, at your expense, experts and appraisers, as needed and consult with them about your case, and your assets and those of your spouse; (You pay the expert's retainer when requested and for expenses and additional services when the expert presents the bill [or the bill will be paid from your deposit]) ***link to the financial section.
Prepare you to testify as a witness at your deposition or at the trial, or both (***link to how to be a witness).
Conduct the taking of depositions ***(link to definition) , attend your deposition and appropriately participate in depositions of witnesses.
Prepare required ***pre trial memoranda (link to definition).
Prepare for trial.
Try the case.
Prepare your post trial Requests for Findings of Fact, Request for Conclusions of Law, Rationale and Theory of the Case and a Proposed Judgment. ***(Links to definitions of the three terms.
Handle post trial activity at the trial court level until the judgment of divorce nisi ***(link to definitions of nisi)
Attend to emergency matters ***(link to sample list of emergency matters).
If your case is pending in or if it is necessary to do discovery in another jurisdiction, we will consult with a lawyer in that other jurisdiction in order to obtain the necessary assistance to either be admitted there, pro hac vice(***link to definition of pro hac vice) or to assist us in conforming our pleading and practice to the rules of that court, or both.