Interested in legal forms, our author, or other places where you can find help in handling your litigation.

This is a short reference page for persons wanting to know more about how LawyerTrialForms™ integrates into the Bucklin Of Counsel™ organization; about the principal author of our legal forms; or about other resources for attorneys involved in litigation.

Attorneys may want to consider associating with another lawyer involved with a special area of law.  There are some law firm's that do concentrate on special areas of litigation, and they and their websites may be helpful to you.  One such firm is Reddy, Baran & Kral, which handles railroad crossing accidents nationwide with co-counsel.

James Bostwick, founder of Bostwick & Associates, is one of the most experienced medical malpractice attorney in the country.  Bostwick's main office is in San Francisco, CA but with co-counsel he has engaged in cases in many states, from Hawaii to Florida.

The over-all umbrella organization for all of Bucklin's enterprises, including LawyerTrialForms™, is Bucklin Of Counsel. (BOC).  BOC is a legal malpractice expert witness and ethics consulting firm. BOC is also the site for various journal (legal, business, history, ethics) articles.  It is the home site for Leonard Bucklin for his work as a legal malpractice expert.  Part of that work is constant observance of how lawyers work.  Bucklin's conclusion is that lawyers who are organized and use systems are the ones who make money and make clients happy.

Bucklin has a number of publications, some of which are sold outside of his enterprises.  One such book, called Building Trial Notebooks,  is a 700 page, multi-volume work on litigation, including a system of organization for trial by using a trial note book. The publisher of Building Trial Notebooks™had this to say about the last supplement written by Bucklin.

"Wow! This is one of the best and most practical supplements I have seen in the last 12 months (and we published about 70 of them in that time period).

Your advice is powerful and innovative. The tone is both helpful and authoritative. The writing is clear, concise, well-illustrated, and supported with some truly fantastic forms. All combine to make this a wonderful package of useful information that is aimed dead-on at [our typical customer, a lawyer in a small to midsize firm]".

Another of the copyrighted LawyerTrialForms™ publications is Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys.  If you want Attorney Fee Awards: a handbook for attorneys as a soft-bound book, for $68.00, it is available at Booklocker, which publishes and sells the bound book. If you want the eBook version of Attorney Fee Awards, for $47.00 (the best buy) the ebook version is available at the site you are now visiting, the website of www. AttorneyFeeAward.

The trademarked slogan of LawyerTrialForms™ is:

"Making Good Lawyers Better" ™ 

The intent of LawyerTrialForms™ is to make your work easier in preparing for depositions, settlement, and trials.  The market theory of LawyerTrialForms™ is that good litigation attorneys want to be efficient. In fact, our experience is those good attorneys are the ones that come to the LawyerTrialForms™ site.

Leonard Bucklin, an experienced and noted trial attorney, is the editor or author of the eBooks or individual legal forms available on this web site.  The trial notebook and the individual trial, litigation and deposition checklists, advice packages, and legal forms --- they all bring you efficiency, but more than that. They all bring you a packaged advisor and senior partner coach.

Depositions are a key element in litigation. Lawyer-Deposition-Forms specializes only in deposition checklists and forms.  Lawyer Deposition Forms also is known by its trade name of DepoForm™.  Although many of the same forms are available at the Lawyer Trial Forms site, DepoForm is the specialist organization for legal forms involving depositions. The DepoForm site has the larger catalog listing of deposition outlines and deposition checklists (including witness preparation).

A trial notebook is not just for trials anymore!  A trial notebook is a proven way to organize the entire process of handling litigation.  Discovery is easier and more organized. Depositions run smoother and with less wasted time in preparation.  Settlement in alternative dispute forums have more order and hence more power. Trial preparation takes less time because of the orderly preservation of materials as the case progresses.  The Trial Notebooks site has the information about trial notebooks, including checklists and forms and articles contained in that litigation system. The purpose of the trial notebook system is to win cases by being organized, and doing the organization in a time efficient manner.  The trial notebook system is the subject of the compact and immediately delivered LitigationReady! ™ , an e-book sold at TrialNotebooks.com . The same trial notebook system is also the subject of a more extensive, traditional hard copy, book set, Building Trial Notebooks, (700 + pages, two volumes, plus CD of forms) which is shipped with a loose leaf binder ready to use, sold by James Publishing, an independent publisher.

Corporate-Ethics.US™ is a corporate ethics round table group which provides experts (PhD and JD quality) for corporate ethics seminars and training or culture-installation projects.  The trademark motto is

"Corporate-Ethics.US™ -  Distinguished experts delivering customized business ethics education".

That motto explains the business concept.  It is a way of promoting solid real-world ethics that will help the public by helping organizations. CEUS can assemble the group of PhD and JD experts that may be your single best source for real business ethics experts who can comment from the perspective of both sound theory and also real business problem-solving experience.

Neoethics is the ethics section of e-Dicta, an internet ezine for the Trial, Torts, and Insurance Section of the American Bar Association.  For several years Bucklin has volunteered his time to be the editor and also contribute legal ethics articles.  The American Bar Association is an authorized user of the name "Neoethics", although Bucklin is the originator of the capitalized word Neoethics to mean the merging of professional ethics codes and private  morals that the American public expects lawyers to use in 21st century society in the United States.  The mission of this ethics section is to promote legal ethics and inspire attorneys to do more than demanded by the formal codes of ethics.

LawyerLitigationForms™  is designed to be the source for forms and the negotiation techniques to use in the adversarial settlement of lawsuits.  About 90% of cases in litigation are settled by some variant of negotiation.  This site is developing to become the primary place for Bucklin to sell settlement related forms, reports and checklists, including Settlement Toolbox™. 

Bucklin, Klemin & McBride, P.C. (BKMPC)  is a regional law firm specializing in litigation. The firm handles a wide variety of litigation for individuals, businesses, other attorneys and insurance companies, especially throughout North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana. However, cases are handled in Colorado and Wyoming also.  Business and personal transactions, negligence and contract cases are handled, with emphasis on complicated major litigation.

The Bucklin, Klemin & McBride, P.C. law firm was started by Bucklin as sole owner, on the premise that the large prairie areas of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado needed excellent lawyers but separately the plains areas of each of those states could not sustain a litigation firm able to devote the appropriate resources to extensive or complicated litigation.  Thus was born the idea of a regional law firm which would service substantial litigation needs in those states. Accordingly, the firm embarked on an aggressive campaign to make itself known to small town attorneys in the plains areas of ND, SD, MN, MT, WY and CO.  Plains area attorneys could refer their cases to the regional firm of Bucklin, Klemin and McBride with the assurance that the client would remain the referring attorney's client, but client and referring attorney would have the services of a regional law firm that specialized in the efficient handling of litigation of all types.

Bucklin was the originator, and remains in an of counsel relationship with this firm. Their byline developed by Bucklin, as the designer and manager of the firm is "We take serious cases and we handle them seriously."  Bucklin, Klemin & McBride. P.C. law firm information is at the Martindale-Hubble Law Directory including a list of distinguished representative clients served in North Dakota, South Dakota and Texas.

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