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Law Practice

Nov. 13, 2014

Old trusts and estates guard warns the new among its ranks

Young trusts and estates attorneys, thwarted by a bleak employment environment, are increasingly starting their own practices and in turn are making themselves susceptible to serious legal missteps.


By Alexandra Schwappach


Daily Journal Staff Writer


If you need some estate planning work done, you might find yourself enlisting the help of a trusts and estates attorney you found online. A few meetings and a few signed documents later, the matter is seemingly solved. But what you might not know is the contract you signed was created via a document generator, the office where you met your attorney was rented by the day, and the attorney himself had o...

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