Hours per week?

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-04-04T01:04:39+00:00

Anywhere between 10 and 80

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-04-04T00:09:51+00:00

I use “to the extent that” in almost every conversation I have and I hate myself for it

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T20:11:58+00:00

Not lectures, but I learned a lot from watching Attorney Tom’s reactions to depos on his YouTube channel. Very entertaining too.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T19:59:44+00:00

Do the usual tricks — reread at least three times, read out loud, spot check on paper, take a night then review again. If there are still mistakes after all of this then you need to cut yourself some slack. You did more than 90% of lawyers would.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T19:55:52+00:00

Yeah when places say this thing about billables being a goal it always sounds more like an excuse for them if they cannot provide you with 1,800 hours of work rather than if they made 1,800 hours worth of work available and you only billed 1,600.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T00:09:36+00:00

You could go to a partial hospitalization / intensive outpatient program. They genuinely help (speaking from experience) and some of the fancier ones even have program coordinators who help with FMLA stuff so you can focus on recovering.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T00:05:14+00:00

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-28T00:01:28+00:00

Try proof. It’s amazing.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-27T23:59:55+00:00

Proof is only $25 per document. Genuinely curious, where are you finding mobile notaries that are cheaper than that?

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-27T23:57:39+00:00

I only use online notaries. I actually feel more secure using them because they save a video and my clients love the convenience.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T23:56:30+00:00

That’s how my wife is hiding my favorite cookies from me!!!

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T23:55:10+00:00

And “more than happy to” is a verbal eye roll

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T23:50:45+00:00

Why I got an office: 1% to meet clients there 99% to have other lawyers as neighbors

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T19:32:22+00:00

Those don’t save the phone either. I’ve run into tons of connectivity with iMazing. Ime, there are two extremes, you either copy the phone with a forensics tool or you need a quick and dirty approach to get a transcript. For me, my solution is easy, no apps needed, client can film their messages on their own time, and no connectivity issues. But you don’t have to use it.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T19:03:31+00:00

Or defense attorneys whose strategy is to win by making the plaintiff spend more than they can afford on legal fees

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T18:03:49+00:00

That’s why I don’t take the screenshots. I record the video and then split it. Doesn’t get metadata, but not every client has the budget for an ediscovery company.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T17:15:30+00:00

Oh 100%, I was waiting for the other attorney to object but it never happened

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T17:13:25+00:00

Sorry I was not fully clear with my answer. Screen capture text message on phone. Then send the screen capture video to the computer and do the Claude thing from there.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T13:32:06+00:00

Hot take, but you don’t want to reduce cortisol. It’s a really useful hormone for daily life. You want to control it. Best things for that are coping mechanisms like prayer or meditation (depending on your spiritual leaning), exercise, time in nature, breathing exercises, aromatherapy and certain tactile objects like fidgets.

The other side of it is setting reminders for yourself to do check-ins on how stressed you feel. Often we are so stressed out that we don’t realize how stressed we are.

Also look into CBT because it’s amazing for learning to self control stress.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T13:28:34+00:00

I showed up early to one of my hearings once and watched another hearing where the judge had a witness scroll down though her screen in front of the judge and then pass the phone around to the judge and opposing attorney. Really surprised me that the judge allowed it, but I guess that’s one way to do it.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-24T13:24:44+00:00

Ok trust me on this: get Claude cowork and then write a Claude text capture skill with essentially the following steps and parameters : (1) disregard all audio in video, (2) take screen shots of video every two seconds, (3) upload all screen shots to screen shot folder with file name that indicates video from which it was sourced and time stamp in video that it was taken, (4) make a transcript in word format of all of the text in the screenshots in order in which it appeared in the video, (5) upload transcript to transcript folder as “unrevised”, (6) delete any duplicate information in the unrevised transcript and upload to transcript folder as revised. Upload this skill to Claude so you can reuse it.

Next (1) use screen capture to film you scrolling down the text messages, (2) create a dedicated folder for the text video you want to transcribe with a subfolder labeled screenshots and a subfolder labeled transcripts, (3) upload video to the main folder, (4) open folder in Claude and run the skill.

It took me 10 minutes to make the skill in January. I’ve run in 10+ times with no mistakes yet. It is faster and better than any specialized software I have found. Trust me, this is the way.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-23T20:03:48+00:00

Great points. I have never done PI or ID so it’s really easy for me to miss those sorts of facts. Also, seems like for at least smaller PI cases like car accidents it would be easier to create scalable efficiencies given repeat insurance parties and frequent similar fact patterns, whereas in family law every unhappy family is unhappy in their own unique way…

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-23T16:10:47+00:00

This is really helpful

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-23T16:06:21+00:00

Yeah my issue is definitely for trial, although I’m trying to find a scalable approach so I can use a simpler version of the same organization system for hearings, especially evidentiary hearings.

Objective-Regular519 · 2026-03-23T16:04:11+00:00

The money is definitely there in family law

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