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PLGL-1200-30I
10/3/15
Law Office Interview
I decided to do a telephone interview with a family friend in Austin, Texas.
She didn’t have much time to really talk so I didn’t get as much information as I
would have liked. She owns her own law firm, which is a real estate law firm in a
more urban Texas market. She doesn’t have any other attorneys on her staff, but she
does have paralegals that do help her.
Anonymous attended the University of Texas as an undergraduate and then
went on to Saint Mary’s for law school. She has been an attorney for twenty plus
years. The law firm where she works is a private practice law firm. She mainly
works from home so she doesn’t have many employees. She has two paralegals that
work for her and help her gather sufficient evidence on the backgrounds of the real
estate properties that she is looking to help out.
Anonymous is an attorney and what she does is she will have real estate
plans and contracts brought to her by clients and they will ask her to look over them
and see if there is anything in them that needs to be changed or taken out. She will
go over the contracts and will give her best professional and legal advice on what
the client should do in that situation. Sometimes it is best for her to take the case on
herself and she will end up presenting the contracts on behalf of her clients. Other
times she will just give advice on what is best.
She occasionally will have clients come in who are about to lose their
properties and her firm will buy out the properties and help the client so they can
keep it, but she will now own it. It has become their specialty in dealing with real
estate contracts and making sure that her clients are getting the best deals possible
and that nothing is hidden in the fine print. Lately the firm has been finding
properties and buying them out then fixing them up and flipping them for profit. Her
husband is a big name contractor in that area as well so he does a lot of the fixing for
her, which allows her clients and also her firm to get better deals on many of the
products.
The paralegals in her firm play a large role in finding many of these
properties and presenting them to her. Many times the paralegals will do a lot of the
work by going through the contracts and finding anything that needs to be changed
or rephrased for their clients benefit. The paralegals are also in charge of keeping
things organized and well prepared so when she makes her presentation to a client
or another attorney it looks very professional and that she is ready for it. Although
the paralegals do a lot of work for her she also takes on a lot of it as well. She said on
average she works 15 hour days and sometimes more. Many of these hours are from
home.
With the little time that we both had to talk I felt as if it was hard to
really get a feel for what exactly goes on in her firm. She does a little bit of
everything from what I understood. Knowing her I know that she does a lot to help
her clients especially the ones who are in danger of losing their properties. Her firm
has been successful thus far and from what it sounded like is that she really enjoyed
how things were run and how her paralegals took on a lot of work.