The Truth About Lawyers

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So you bust your budget and make your selection. You sit there in court and watchrepparttar attorney do his/her job. How are you supposed to be able to know whetherrepparttar 135859 best possible job is being done for you? There's no way to know because you don't understandrepparttar 135860 game that's being played out. Inrepparttar 135861 end,repparttar 135862 judge calls both attorneys into chambers andrepparttar 135863 goal ofrepparttar 135864 meeting is to find a compromise solution that will moverepparttar 135865 case out of court. The attorneys do their thing and then they come back into court and tell you, "This isrepparttar 135866 best possible deal you're going to get. Trust me on this one. If you don't take this deal, you're going to makerepparttar 135867 judge angry and you will never get this deal again." What can you do? Nothing. You just lost.

But if you ever makerepparttar 135868 decision to represent yourself in court, you'd better understand how to behave properly or you will really piss offrepparttar 135869 judge. Here arerepparttar 135870 basics of good courtroom behavior:

1. Don't digress. Make your points quickly, logically, and in logical order. 2. Always lookrepparttar 135871 judge directly inrepparttar 135872 eyes when talking. 3. Forget your ego and just grovel. Say "Your Honor", "with all due respect", "forgive my ignorance" and things like that. 4. Dress well. Notice thatrepparttar 135873 attorneys all wear suits. Now why do you think they do that? Because they all own stock in Brooks Brothers? 5. When you do get your chance to go back into chambers, follow rules 1 through 4 again.

If you can master these basics, you will find that an amazing thing happens. The judge will be entertained by you simply because what you're doing is very rare and it's not what they have to sit through every day. If you're good and stick torepparttar 135874 basics,repparttar 135875 judge will bend over backwards to assist you. Of course, there isrepparttar 135876 matter of knowingrepparttar 135877 law and proper court procedure. It's possible to lose a case just by missing a trick and being beat torepparttar 135878 punch by your opposing attorney on a simple point of order. So . . . Do you need an attorney? Probably you do, but maybe you don't. I didn't.

As Sally Struthers said in All in The Family: "Case Closed !"

Peter Cross is a singer/songwriter/producer who was among the first to put music on the internet in downloadable format in 1996, and he has represented himself in court as Attorney In Pro Per many times. To this day, he is one of the only musicians who has created and designed his own music web site in html, and at 104 pages filled with entertaining content, it's one of the largest. Check it out at: http://www.starcrost.com


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