Things You Need to Know That No One Else Will Tell You

If you are involved in litigation, you are dealing with human beings in their most primal state. Your opposing party has the most selfish, destructive mindset you can imagine, and you are their target. They want to take your liberty and your property for their own gain. Our court system is designed to encourage people to exaggerate and leave out important facts, so, paradoxically, even though the other side may be making false claims, your judge will be skeptical of anything that you say. You cannot take anything for granted. If you catch yourself thinking, “They would never do that,” you are about to lose big. They will do it.

You need a lawyer, and you need a lawyer yesterday. But there are hundreds of thousands of lawyers. They all have the same law school degree and license, and they all need clients. They are incentivized to tell you what you want to hear so that you’ll hire them. And almost none of them will acknowledge to themselves or to you what they know deep down to be true: law school did absolutely nothing to prepare them for the word games, logical fallacies, cognitive shortcuts, and outright lies that people tell every day, under oath, while looking you right square in the eyeballs and daring you to challenge them, daring you to try to expose the truth.

You need a lawyer who won’t back down from anyone or anything, who knows how to expose their attorney when they lie about the evidence and how the case is being litigated, how to cross-examine the opposing party and use their own words and actions to prove that they are a hypocrite, and how to get you results, in negotiation or at trial, and even when to tell you that everyone else got it wrong and that you should consider an appeal.

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I have been tested and proven:

• By application and examination to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

• By application for board certification through the National Board of Trial Advocacy

• By examination for a Certified Financial Planner certificate from Southern Methodist University

• By application to the International Academy of Family Lawyers

I will not tell you what you want to hear. I will tell you when the other side is incorrect and tell you when you are getting it wrong. People don’t hire me as a Yes Man. They hire me to execute.