Joel
R. Brandes
Consulting Services,
Inc.
teaches attorney’s about all aspects
of divorce and family law, as well as how to prepare for and try such cases.
We act as your virtual paralegal.
We can do anything a paralegal is
permitted to do in your state. Our paralegal services include legal research
and assisting counsel in preparing drafts of agreements, pleadings, motion
papers, disclosure demands, memoranda of law and briefs.
We review and prepare critiques of
valuation reports and custody evaluations in order to assist attorneys in
preparing their examination of expert witnesses.
We
also provide
consulting services to members of the bar with regard to
methods to streamline the lawyer's
practice. These services include assistance with client relations, public relations, case management, budget and
planning, library and electronic research services, intranets and internet, billing and collections, document
management,
court services, and case tracking. Our
services are available only to members of the bar of your state.
Disclaimer: New York Divorce
and Family Law™
and Joel R. Brandes Consulting Services, Inc.
provides litigation support and
paralegal services for matrimonial and family law attorneys throughout the
United States.
Joel
R. Brandes Consulting Services, Inc. is
not a law firm and does not give legal advice. We only work for
attorneys. We do not enter into an attorney-client relationship or a
fiduciary relationship with attorney's. We communicate directly with
attorneys, who are our only clients and do not communicate with the clients
of attorneys . The determination as to whether or not to use any of the
information provided by the company to attorneys, rests with each individual
attorney, who has to exercise his/her professional judgment in order to
determine whether to utilize all or any part of such information. The
company does not offer it's services to or consult with anyone who is not an
attorney. If legal advice is required the services of a competent attorney
should be sought.
New
York Divorce and Family Law™
is owned by Joel R. Brandes Consulting Services, Inc. and operated by Joel R. Brandes, an acknowledged
authority on New York Divorce and Family Law. Although he no
longer practices law, he is the Publisher and Editor of
New York Divorce and Family Law™
on the web at
www.nysdivorce.com and
www.brandeslaw.com and writes the
annual supplements to Law and the Family New York, Second Edition
Revised.
Mr. Brandes has served as a consultant
to members of the bar on all aspects of New York Divorce and
Family Law trial practice, appellate practice, and law office
management. He was counsel in the landmark Court of Appeals cases
of Morone v Morone, Tucker v Tucker and McSparron v McSparron. He
co-authored with the Late Henry H. Foster and Dr. Doris Jonas
Freed, the nine volume treatise Law and the Family New York,
Second Edition (Westgroup). He co-authored with Carole L. Weidman,
volumes 3, 3A and 3B of Law and the Family New York Second
Edition, Revised and their four volume form set, Law and the
Family New York Forms, all published by Westgroup, Rochester, New
York. He authored volumes 4, 4a, 5 and 6 of Law and The Family,
New York Second Edition, Revised. From 1988 until April, 2002
Mr. Brandes authored "Law and The Family," a regular monthly
column in the New York Law Journal. He earned his J.D. at Brooklyn
Law School and his LL.M. at New York University.
