Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clien... by Portia Porter

She thinks that anybody who reads the book will too be a better businessperson for it. She learned her lesson - and made sense and system out of it. Since the day her book came out in print, every client of Portia paid in full. 'How to Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer' helps young lawyers by identifying those traits and biases of character which get them conned and stiffed in the first place. That year, Portia Porter sat down to write her famous Law Practice Management Guide. The problem were the lawyer who let the clients stiff them. but it was after she sent a futile invoice for nearly $100,000, she had a realization.Clients were not the problem. Through all this beautiful variety, only one thing remained constant: all of them managed to stiff her.Over the course of her career, Portia has been stiffed in sums large and small. There were devout clients and nudist clients. Husband-clients, wife-clients and girlfriend of the wife clients. There were rich clients and poor clients. There were divorces worth over hundred million dollars - and divorces where the client's sanity was the only asset. Portia Porter practiced divorce law on her own for many years, handling all sorts of divorces. It was at that moment, that she discovered that she knew nothing about the real practice of law. She practiced corporate and antitrust law with a top New York Wall Street law firm, then opened her own divorce law practice in Ducklingburg, South Duck.

is from The University of Chicago her law degree from University of Virginia. Unless one can learn from somebody else's mistakes. Yes, it is the sort of thing one learns by experience. This book gives lawyers tools for keeping the doors open and a shot at paying off those pesky student loans.No, there is no silver bullet. Too many law practice management books sell young lawyers on the unicorn dream of living balanced lives while doing good. Synopsis: Not Your Grandparents' Practice Management GuideThis hilariously no-nonsense guide addresses the single most important-and the most overlooked-part of lawyer's practice: getting paid for the work.Laugh at Portia's misadventures and learn how to:

Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clien... by Portia Porter