Ensuring Client Co-operation in the Personal Injury and Bankruptcy Case
Personal injury attorney James Toll and bankruptcy attorney Stuart Brecher join forces to discuss scenarios where their practices intersect, most prominently when a personal injury attorney files for bankruptcy. Within the discussion, they stress the importance of creating mutual cooperation provisions when forming client-attorney relationships. Simply put, mutual cooperation provisions ensure that clients understand the need to cooperate with their attorneys. They go on to identify common scenario wherein a lack of such an agreement could prove problematic and a variety of factors that might preclude a client from being cooperative. Taken from the Lawline.com course “Your P.I. Client has filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy - Navigating the Minefields.”
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