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Law Practice Management » Compensation and Billing
How to recover attorneys' fees in Texas, 2013
238 pages. No updates available.
This text provides a step by step outline for recovering attorneys's fees. It includes a discussion of the legal requirements for recovery, including by contract and by statute. Some of the examples provided are through the "Declaratory Judgment Act", the DTPA and chapter 38 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code. It also includes chapters on the specifics of the legal requirements, the discovery process and assembling your evidence. The appendix includes charts, sample letters, checklists and forms.