Law Office Of Paul DePetris

The Law Office of Paul DePetris acts as a paid consultant to other law firms handling a variety of civil cases and provides per diem attorney services to several law firms. 

• Have a civil case and need help with procedural or substantive issues?
• Want to service one of your clients but your knowledge of an area of civil law is limited?
• Need to talk to an attorney about a possible contract, consumer, commercial or warranty case?
• Having trouble reaching court deadlines but don’t want to incur the expense of a full time associate?
• Letting billable hours go because you just don’t have time to give a file the attention it needs?
• Need help drafting demand packages, pleadings or discovery demands in a civil case?
• 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 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?

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’ per diem attorney services don’t routinely perform civil litigation or appellate work and yet want to keep clients who need that work performed “in house”.  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. 

By using Mr. DePetris as your per diem attorney, 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 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 per diem attorney services.  Mr. DePetris is flexible with his billing for per diem attorney services, providing reasonable hourly rates and in many situations, flat fee task based billing.

Over the years, Mr. DePetris has provided per diem attorney services to over 25 law firms.  Mr. DePetris has provided 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 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: