Win an attorney fees award dispute because you have the law summaries, deposition checklist outlines, and tactics that top litigators use.

"You need a compact handbook on attorney fee awards --- and you need to read it before you start working on your next new case. You need to know what needs to be done - today - in requesting, or defending against, attorney's fees in your case."

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Leonard Bucklin
Civil Trial Attorney

Now, you can have a quick read of the fundamental law, tips, and tactics that seasoned attorney fee award litigation attorneys have been using for years. In fact, my Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys is so compact and to the point, with useful tips and forms, that even experienced attorneys will consider you a seasoned attorney fee award litigator.

Law school mostly skips past instruction on recovering/defending regarding attorney fees.  In today's law practice, on the plaintiff's side, there are lots of chances for having the adversary pay your attorney fee.  It surely makes your client happy, and makes more cases pay well.  On the defense side, the average defense lawyer's failure to know how to defeat the attorney fee award can lead to an upset insurer-client.  On both sides of the case, you can often break open a deadlocked settlement negotiation by having the attorney fee award card to play.

At the start of the case, before it is too late, on either side of the case, you can know the tips and tactics for proving or disproving attorney fees  We cannot overemphasize ---  counsel on both sides each need to have a compact handbook, and each need to

  • know the basics of attorney fee awards for that case,
  • know the requirements that need to be met,
  • and have forms available that save time,
  • as soon as the case starts.

Before I had an attorney fee award handbook that I built out of legal research and tactics notes from a series of trials and settlements, I had found myself (on more occasions that I'd like to admit) working well into the wee hours of the morning pulling myself out of a hole that I could have avoided.  But after I had my "quick read"  attorney fee award handbook, I knew what I was doing, and when to do it! I was able to use my position on attorney fees to hammer the other side during settlement and come back to the office with an exceptionally happy client.

All The Best,

Leonard Bucklin, Civil Trial Attorney

The fact is, most attorneys don't get adequate reasonable attorney fee's awards, or don't defeat fee awards when they are on the defense, for one simple reason:

They don't know the procedure, law, and tactics on attorney fee awards.

In addition to text with law summaries, tips, and procedures --- you get forms.  For example, you get two long, copyrighted, expert witness question checklist outline forms (one for the direct exam of your own expert, the second for the cross exam of the adverse expert witness). Those two forms are sold on the internet, by themselves, for $54 --- that's more than the price of Attorney Fee Awards™!   You not only get those two forms, you also get another 150 pages of law,  motion and deposition tactics, and advice, plus more forms. In short, the eBook version, to download now, for the low price of just $38, is a terrific buy.

What is Attorney Fee Awards?

Attorney Fee Awards is a easy to read handbook that any attorney can use in any practice area (except criminal law or domestic relations cases) and in any size firm

This is a simple to follow book with instructions and forms on how to create and organize your demand or defense on a request for a reasonable attorney fee awards..  Before every deposition, every hearing and every trial -- you'll know what you need to ask and what you need to do.

Here's some of the benefits that the Attorney Fee Awards gives to you:

  1. Alerts you to the many opportunities today to request an award of attorney fees -- despite the law they told you in law school.

  2. Tells you The Top Four Elements of Good Time Records -- which you need to know if you want time records that clients, courts, and juries rush to pay, and leave adversaries unable to dispute your request as excessive.

  3. Shows you how on the defense you can attack time records, and make judges distrustful of your opponent's request

  4. Provides defendants with traps to lay in settlement negotiations (unless the plaintiff's counsel has read this handbook or is a veteran fee award litigator).

  5. Provides plaintiffs with fee award leverage in settlement.

  6. Warns you of potential pitfalls in presenting an award for fees.

  7. Gives you forms for deposing the adversary's expert witness on fees, and for doing the direct examination of your own fee expert at deposition or trial.

Do you want compact information that prepares your way to win, or defeat attorney fee awards in civil cases?  Attorney Fee Awards™ has a "paint by numbers" approach to organizing a winning party's request for an attorney fee award.  And  Attorney Fee Awards™  has, for the other side of the counsel table, a checklist approach for the points of attack you can use on the defense to defeat requests for attorney fees.

More!  Attorney Fee Awards™ has a question outline for the direct examination at trial of your expert witness on "a reasonable attorney fee."  And it adds a deposition or trial question outline for cross-examining the adverse expert on a reasonable attorney fee.

Most lawyers do not ask the right questions, in depositions or trial, of either the adverse expert witness, or their own expert witness, on a "reasonable attorney fee." That is why their client does not get the attorney fee award they should.  With these expert witness question outlines, you will not be one of those lawyers. If you are on the defense against a request for an attorney's fee award, this compact information tells you the critical points to bear down on in discovery and trial, to save your client paying a fee that may be more than the amount in dispute in the main case. 

I really like getting money and getting paid. Knowing more about fee awards than most other attorneys helped me make client's happy.  Happy clients are the best way to build a practice, whether on the plaintiff's side or on the insurance defense side. While practicing for the last 35 years, in a successful five state litigation practice, I developed and refined my own notes for myself and the other lawyers in the office. 

Now I've put my attorney fee award notes into a handbook that is compact, blunt, and to the point.  It's a two to four hour read that tells you what you would hear you would get if you asked an experienced fee award litigator in your firm to tell you what you need to know to handle a fee award request in the next case on your desk. 

Typically, I see opposing counsel fumbling on attorney fee requests, no matter which side they are on, wasting their resources, irritating the court, and embarrassing themselves because they have no basic understanding of an important part of today's litigation.

But that doesn't have to be you.

Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys identifies essential law and practices applicable to most cases in most areas of litigation. This handbook is not for criminal law, or for domestic relations law.  Those areas vary too much among the states to make it sensible to include them in a compact handbook, so I didn't include them.  But this handbook for lawyers does succinctly state the essential law and practices applicable to attorney's fees in most cases in most areas of litigation.  I've used the word "succinctly' in describing Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys. This handbook is designed to be a clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse. It's a "learn and use tool" for you.

Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys contains tactics for both sides of the litigation most attorneys face every year. It has discussions of law, with core citations, you can quickly cut and paste into your briefs. This 200 page handbook has forms you can copy and use, including question outlines for attorney fee expert direct testimony or adverse depositions.

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If you don't totally agree that my Attorney Fee Awards is worth every penny, simply ask, and I'll happily refund your money up to 60 days after the purchase! Keep the book. Get your money back. Just ask for a refund. It's that easy.

You have nothing to lose.

Whichever side of the counsel table you are on: you want to avoid mistakes. Better yet, be ahead of the opposition because of what you know, and what you do at the right time

You can own Attorney Fee Awards™, in the eBook version, to download now, for the low price of just $38. There are multi-volume $500 texts being sold on the subject of attorney's fees, but they are designed to give you all the law to help you out of a problem after you are in it.  You won't buy or read those multi-volume texts for education before your next case.  In contrast Attorney Fee Awards™is designed to be read in two to four hours, to keep you out of trouble, and to make you a winner.  It's compact. Its readable. It's a real value buy. 

Note: At Barnes and Noble or other bookstores, the printed, bound, version of this book costs $68.00.  If you want a printed, soft-bound, copy of this book, you can order directly from the publisher at http://www.booklocker.com/books/2741.html

Or you can go to a bookstore to get a bound book, for example: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Attorney-Fee-Awards/Leonard-Bucklin/e/9781601450869/?itm=1   will get you to the Barnes and Noble webpage on the book. 

But our PDF electronic version goes right on your computer, so you can happily use the forms by pasting them into your Word or WordPerfect. Plus, you save $30, by ordering here, the ebook version furnished to you in PDF format.  199 pages and a $30 saving!

Let me recap. . . 

  • Attorney Fee Awards™ gives you the basic law and tactics that seasoned attorney fee award litigation attorneys have been using for years.

  • Attorney Fee Awards™ is a handbook that is compact, down to earth, and to the point. It's what a senior mentor would tell you.

  • Attorney Fee Awards™ has forms, tips, and advice (including deposition outlines) that save you time and money. Using just one of these forms saves you more than the price of the handbook.

  • Attorney Fee Awards™ is a very low investment with a high value return.

Attorney fee awards are part of so many types of cases (many that some  lawyers don't think of as "attorney fee award cases) that plaintiff's counsel's failure to build the request of an attorney fee award into the start of the case can spell malpractice.

Think about this. . . when you walk into the court you will feel one of two ways: Prepared or Unprepared.  I don't need to ask you which one is a better feeling.

The fact is, just the FEELING of being prepared on attorney fee awards for one case alone must be worth $38.  Consider your small investment a little "emotional insurance policy."

Plus, you don't have to worry about getting your money's worth because You're completely protected by my "100%, No Questions Asked, Money Back Guarantee!" Your tax deductible expense of $38 is protected by a 60-day iron-clad guarantee (you're an attorney. . . there are no loopholes here!) so you have nothing to lose.  If you value your time as much as I value mine, the only mistake would be letting slip by this small one-time investment that saves you hours of time and protects you from some preventable fumbles.

Own the Attorney Fee Awards™ handbook,  in the eBook version.

P.S. If Attorney Fee Awards saves you just one hour of time - ever - it pays for itself.  Attorneys who are using my system right now are saving valuable hours every year.

P.P.S. 

Use your ebook and its forms today! We deliver electronically --- as the integrated last part of the automated purchase process.  After you complete your on-line purchase and your credit card is verified, then your browser is automatically redirected to a new webpage with your link to click to download.

Attorney Fee Awards Handbook is furnished in PDF format, right to your computer. It is not "shipped";  it is not "mailed" to you, with additional cost and delay.  This handbooks is delivered "unlocked" to your computer.  Read and print any or all of it, today!

It's that easy and quick!  At the end of your purchase, simply wait for the redirection to the new webpage, click the link as instructed,  and you have the form in your computer.

 

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