If any of the following describe your problems, you may benefit from per diem attorney services:

• Having trouble reaching court deadlines but don’t want to incur the expense of a full time associate?
• Letting billable hours go out the window because you just don’t have time to give a file the attention it needs?
• Always finding that your files are not properly prepared for arbitration or trial because you just don’t have the time to devote to them?
• Neglecting certain files in your office because you aren’t interested in the drudgery required by those files or by those areas of law involved?
• Are clients upset with the lack of attention that the firm is giving their files?
• Tired of spending time working on a particular file?
• Need help drafting demand packages, pleadings or discovery demands in a civil case?
• Need briefs written?
• Need to take an appeal of a trial court decision?
• Need a complaint prepared on a complex case?
• Under deadlines to complete discovery?
• Finding it difficult to get that motion to dismiss or summary judgment motion filed?
• Facing summary judgment motion deadlines and you need to get a response filed?
• Need detailed discovery demands prepared for service on a party opponent?
• Tired spending your time training associates, paralegals or legal secretaries?
• Need a competent extra set of hands?

The Law Office of Paul DePetris provides per diem attorney services to many firms on a flat fee per task or hourly basis.  From Chancery Division to Law Division, Civil Part to Law Division, Special Civil Part, Paul DePetris offers cost effective per diem attorney solutions to New Jersey law firms in a variety of cases.

New Jersey per diem attorney services have many advantages over the hiring of new staff, including:

·         No time spent training

·         No benefits to pay

·         Having the work product drafted by someone who regularly performs the task and who is able to devote their attention to the task

·         Getting goodwill and glory for yourself without having to spend countless hours in mind numbing paperwork

·         Paying only for the services you need when you need them

Many firms that use Paul DePetris’ New Jersey per diem attorney services don’t routinely perform civil litigation work and yet want to keep clients who need that work performed “in house”.  New Jersey per diem attorney services are a good way to achieve this goal without neglecting files that might otherwise prove a distraction from the firm’s primary practice areas.  Also, on billable files, New Jersey per diem attorney services may help you meet weekly office billing quotas.

By using the New Jersey per diem attorney services of the Law Office of DePetris, you can let an experienced attorney handle the drudgery of preparing complaints, answers, third party complaints, discovery demands, discovery responses, motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions for a more definite statement and the like.  Why pay a salaried employee when you can have an experienced attorney provide you with the New Jersey per diem attorney services that you need only when you need them?  Instead of training a new associate or delegating a task to a staff member when you don’t know if they can handle it, let Mr. DePetris provide you with New Jersey per diem attorney services.  Mr. DePetris is flexible with his billing for New Jersey per diem attorney services, providing reasonable hourly rates and in many situations, flat fee task based billing.

Over the years, Mr. DePetris has provided New Jersey per diem attorney services to over 25 law firms.  Mr. DePetris has provided New Jersey per diem attorney services to law firms in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Philadelphia and Salem counties.

Mr. DePetris is experienced in the use of Microsoft Office programs and he emails work product to attorney clients.   Often, Mr. DePetris drafts briefs and motions on very short notice.  A list of some of the firms that used Paul’s New Jersey per diem attorney services in the past is available on request.

Mr. DePetris has extensive civil litigation writing experience, which includes drafting hundreds of legal memoranda and trial court and appellate briefs on the following subjects:  

Mr. DePetris has extensive civil litigation writing experience, which includes drafting hundreds of legal memoranda and trial court and appellate briefs on the following subjects:  

Abuse Of Process

Actions In Lieu Of Prerogative Writs

Adverse Possession

Agency

Arbitration Agreements

Attorney Ethics

Automotive Personal Injury

Automotive Warranty

Automotive Fraud 

Bailments

Boat Warranty Disputes

Boat Sale Fraud

Boundary Disputes

Breach Of Peace

Breach Of Contract

Breach Of Warranty

Broker Commissions

Changed Circumstances

Civil Appeals

Child Support

Commercial Breach Of Contract

Commercial Breach Of Warranty

Commercial Collection

Common Law Fraud

Constitutional Law

Construction Law

Construction Liens

Consumer Collection

Consumer Fraud Act

Consumer Law

Corporate Veil Piercing

Covenant Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing

Coverage Disputes

Creditors’ Rights

Debtors’ Rights

Declaratory Judgment Actions

Default Judgment

Discovery Disputes

Disgorgement

Ejectment Actions

Emancipation Of Minors

Employment Agreements

Equitable Distribution

Equitable Fraud

Equitable Relief And Remedies

Estate Disputes

Expert Testimony

Express Warranties

Family Law

Federal Odometer Law

Federal Warranty Law

Fraudulent Transfers

Frivolous Sanctions

Home Improvement Fraud

Implied Warranties

Insurance Disputes

Landlord Tenant

Legal Fraud

Lemon Law – New And Used Cars

Lepis Applications

Licensed Professionals

Limitations Of Liability Clauses

Magnuson Moss Warranty Act

Malicious Prosecution

Name Changes

Negligent Misrepresentation

New Car Lemon Law

Municipal Court Appeals

Municipal Ordinance Challenges

Negotiable Instruments

Odometer Fraud

Plain Language Act/Law

Premises Liability Personal Injury

Professional Liability & Malpractice

Property Damage

Quantum Meruit

Quasi Contract

Real Estate Broker Commissions

Real Estate Fraud

Real Estate Sale Fraud

Reconsideration

Relief From Judgment

Special Civil Part

Spousal Support

Statute Of Limitations

Statute Of Repose

Storage Agreements

Takings

Title Issues

Theft Of Goods And Services

Title 59

Truth In Consumer Contract,  Warranty And Notice Act

Undue Influence

Uniform Commercial Code

Unjust Enrichment

Used Car Lemon Law

Verbal Threshold

Vicarious Liability

Warranty Disputes

Will Interpretation

Wrongful Repossession

Zoning Disputes