As an attorney who handles a lot of probate cases, I too often come across situations that have become expensive problems when they could have been avoided by timely action.

I wear a lot of hats. I don’t mean I have lots of responsibilities, I mean I wear. a. lot. of. hats. Three fedoras, two driving caps, two Panamas, two cowboy hats, a couple of baseball caps

My dad was my law partner for over 20 years, and one of his favorite (!) trial stories was the client who, in the middle of cross-examination by the opposing attorney, began a response with, “I ain’t even told my lawyer this yet, but…”. I’ve also had the dubious pleasure of having a client say, “Well, I just didn’t think you needed to know that!” at precisely the wrong moment – you know, just AFTER the nick of time.

Sounds silly, doesn’t it? It’s just a staple, after all. What does it matter if you remove it to make a copy?

“Here’s a stupid question…” – I hear this too often from my business clients. The Jacobson Law Firm has helped form hundreds of business entities and serves as Registered Agent for many of them.

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Since a lot of my law practice involves estate planning, I prepare a lot of what are called “advance directives” (ADs) – documents that authorize somebody else to make decisions for you if you can’t. The least understood of these ADs is the directive to physicians, or “living will”.

As an estate planning and probate lawyer, I occasionally have clients who come in, chat with me and my support staff, fill out an estate planning questionnaire and have me prepare draft documents for them

I do a lot of business formations at The Jacobson Law Firm, P.C., and serve as general counsel to many companies as well. I have discovered over the course of many years and many clients that one of the things small companies and entrepreneurs are really bad at is documenting their corporate activity – that is, having annual meetings and memorializing what happened at those meetings.