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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.

We like the LawyerLounge, an internet resource center focusing on law office technology.  Creator Glenn Carnes, a lawyer, has assembled useful educational material, practice tips, and other materials for litigators in a trial practice.  Browse it a bit some day when you feel you want to expand your horizons a bit.

The over-all umbrella organization for all of Bucklin's enterprises, including LawyerTrialForms™, is Bucklin Of Counsel. (BOC).  BOC is a legal ethics and business ethics consulting firm. BOC is also the site for various journal (legal, business, history, ethics) articles. 

Bucklin Of Counsel is the home for Leonard Bucklin's work. Part of that work involves constant observance of how lawyers work. Bucklin's conclusion is that lawyers who are organized and use systems are the ones most likely to both 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 sold by James Publishing.  Annually supplemented, with a CD of forms, it has practical - up to date - advice for both beginning lawyers and also experienced lawyers, on handling litigation.

Bucklin shows how to use a notebook organizational system not only for trials, but also for discovery and settlement. A trial notebook now 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.

This is in a traditional law book format: a hard copy, loose-leaf book set, Building Trial Notebooks, (800 + pages, three volumes, plus CD of forms) is shipped with a loose leaf trial binder ready to use, sold by James Publishing, an independent publisher.

"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 ...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 book in its soft-bound format. If you want the eBook version of Attorney Fee Awards, for $47.00 (the best buy) the ebook version (which has the advantage of being able to put the forms into your word processor) is available at www. AttorneyFeeAward.

The trademarked slogan of LawyerTrialForms™ is:

"Making Good Lawyers Better" ™ 

Legal forms for litigation lawyers. 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 either the editor or the 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.

Deposition checklists of the best quality are at DepoForm.™ One word and capitalized, the word "DepoForm" is the trademark of a specified producer of legal forms that save attorneys work in preparing for, or taking, depositions. 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 more forms are available at the Lawyer Trial Forms site, DepoForm is a specialist group.

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.

was the name of 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  volunteered his time to be the editor and also contribute legal ethics articles to the ezine. 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. 

LawyerLitigationForms™  is a source for both deposition and trial forms and also negotiation and settlement forms, or designates places where you can get them.

Attorneys may want to consider associating with another lawyer involved with a special area of law.  There are some law firms 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.

Bucklin, Klemin, McBride & Schweigert, P.C. [Most usual conversational short form is "BKM", not BKMS.] is a regional law firm concentrating 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, Montana, and Texas. 

BKMS was started by Bucklin as sole owner, with the initial name of Bucklin Trial Lawyers, p.c. The premise was that the large, sparsely populated, prairie areas of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming (the Upper Midwest) needed excellent lawyers, but separately any one of those plains areas could not sustain a litigation firm with the  resources needed for substantial litigation.  Thus was born the idea of a regional law firm which would service substantial litigation needs in the prairie areas of those states. Accordingly, the firm embarked on an aggressive campaign to make itself known to small town attorneys in the upper Midwest plains areas.  Plains area attorneys could refer their cases to the regional firm of BKM 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 remains in an of counsel relationship with this firm. The firm byline, developed by Bucklin, is "We take serious cases and we handle them seriously."  Bucklin, Klemin, McBride. and Schweigert, P.C. law firm information is in the Martindale-Hubble Law Directory, which includes a list of distinguished representative clients they have served in various states.

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