Bucklin brings six key advantages for you
as the trial lawyer prosecuting or defending
an attorney fee award case.
Whether you are prosecuting or
defending a claim for an attorney fee award, you want
six key
advantages.
Bucklin brings them to you. Check them
off, below.
 Decades of Experience in the courtroom. It
counts,
if you want clear communication to a judge or jury waiting for
answers to the questions they must decide.
Decades
of Study of how attorneys
really work in the daily practice of law. Since 1975 Bucklin
has been studying how lawyers work, then providing lawyers and legal
assistants with advice
and forms for their legal handling of litigation.
His three volume text for lawyers, on handling litigation,
from case intake through the trial, is sold nationally.
Solid Review of Facts and Applicable Law
has to be the foundation of an expert opinion that the adverse party
cannot shake. Bucklin takes the time to make a pain-staking
review of what tasks the attorney did. He reviews the fee billings, case materials, and other applicable materials on an objective basis.
Bucklin reviews the
applicable law on ethics and legal fees, and includes this in his
report, so that you as a lawyer are aware of it.
Expert Written Opinions that
provide you with both detail and
summarization. We place the expert opinions into a written report form you can use for discovery
responses, settlement discussion, and trial exhibit. Most of our reports have a one page quick
summary but are often 30 to 100 pages in length, with tables,
exhibits, and references to
critical facts in the attorney's handling of the matter, as well as
citations to applicable law you can use. Our organization of facts and the themes
of what was done by the attorney whose fee is in dispute is a part
of our thoroughness. What is important to you is
that our attention to providing you with both detail and also summarizations pays dividends to
you as an attorney in your preparation for settlement or trial.
Exhibits! We
like to testify and tell the judge or jury what elements of the
attorney fee award presentation (on either side of the case) will help them reach a
proper and reasoned conclusion. That's why
we use our communications background to design and include visual
exhibits in our report that can be used to inform the judge or jury.
Clear Testimony:
Bucklin can provide
testimony at a deposition or trial.
- Clarity. Clarity. Clarity. Power in presenting the
opinion.
- Experience in presentation in depositions and trials.
- Analysis of the matter, done with thoughtfulness, reason, and expert
methodology.
- Credentials that are ample.
 for C.V. (Biography).
Making your job easier. Because -- it's our job as an expert to explain clearly, founded on solid fact-finding and
analysis, what is the reasonable attorney fee in the case, and
why
it is the reasonable fee for the tasks that were done. That explanation is due both
to you as the attorney preparing for settlement or trial, and
also to the fact-finder at trial who wants to make a just decision.
 Bucklin
ordinarily only accepts assignments to review attorney fees
involving legal work done in 16 core mid-continent western states (green and blue in
the illustration). Read more about
testimony as an expert
witness on attorney fees.
Ordinarily, he only accepts assignments to review fee disputes
involving fee billings of more than $500,000.
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