Professionalism
Everything was kept succinct and to the point when needed.
The email correspondence that we did share was only ever professional in the sense that it was straight to the point, didn't beat around the bush and wasn't meant to. There was never anything unnecessary that was ever sent my way with what could be interpreted as an agenda to just bill some more hours.
Everything was kept succinct and to the point when needed. And I think that really hits home for me in terms of she could have had any number of questions at any point in time or wanted to check in to see what the pace was of my wife and I working on our separation agreement and what was needed or where we were at. And all of that would have racked up billable hours for her. But she refrained from that and only waited for my sort of direction, again putting me as a client at the forefront rather than her livelihood as a lawyer in her profession at the forefront.
When we went through the draft separation agreement, she had about a half dozen to eight or nine questions or suggestions, never concerns, but just questions or suggestions that we never thought of and that my wife's lawyer maybe overlooked or maybe didn't see as well. Just a fresh set of eyes on it. Kaila came through just in terms of helping to streamline and give her legal two cents on how she might go about putting together agreements, as she has done so many times.
It was the week before we agreed that the separation agreement was done that we had a conversation on the phone and went through it with a fine toothcomb after she'd already done her due diligence, read through it, made notes, and asked me to do the same. This is all through email that she asked and stuff, just to make sure that our phone conversation didn't drag on and bill more hours than it needed to, that we would be on the same page with where the key points of talking were to be when we looked at it.
Everything was kept succinct and to the point when needed. And I think that really hits home for me in terms of she could have had any number of questions at any point in time or wanted to check in to see what the pace was of my wife and I working on our separation agreement and what was needed or where we were at. And all of that would have racked up billable hours for her. But she refrained from that and only waited for my sort of direction, again putting me as a client at the forefront rather than her livelihood as a lawyer in her profession at the forefront.
When we went through the draft separation agreement, she had about a half dozen to eight or nine questions or suggestions, never concerns, but just questions or suggestions that we never thought of and that my wife's lawyer maybe overlooked or maybe didn't see as well. Just a fresh set of eyes on it. Kaila came through just in terms of helping to streamline and give her legal two cents on how she might go about putting together agreements, as she has done so many times.
It was the week before we agreed that the separation agreement was done that we had a conversation on the phone and went through it with a fine toothcomb after she'd already done her due diligence, read through it, made notes, and asked me to do the same. This is all through email that she asked and stuff, just to make sure that our phone conversation didn't drag on and bill more hours than it needed to, that we would be on the same page with where the key points of talking were to be when we looked at it.
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1579, Hyde Park Road
London, ON, N6H 5L4
Phone: (519) 672-5953