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i think what
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makes our firm different from other law
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firms
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is the breadth and depth of our
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experience
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with elder law we can do it all in in
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the field of elder law
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we have a certified trust and estates
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specialist who can handle the
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transactional side
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of elder law and we have
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substantial experience in litigation
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which is our focus
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in elder law the elder law litigation
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we’re just as comfortable
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handling elder abuse cases in civil
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court
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as we are in probate court and even in
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the same case
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we may be in both probate court and
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civil court
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and i found that most firms are
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comfortable
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in one or the other they either focus
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most of their efforts in probate court
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or
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most of their efforts in civil but we
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can do both
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do both and have done for many years so
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i think that gives us a distinct
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advantage
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when hiring an elder abuse attorney the
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number one thing
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a person should look for is to find
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someone with experience
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and a focus in elder abuse
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litigation within the law it’s an era of
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specialization
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the the days of the generalist
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lawyer who does a little bit of this a
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little bit of that i think
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is gone i’ve heard it referred to as a
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door lawyer whatever knocks on their
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door they handle that’s definitely not
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us
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our focus is the elder abuse litigation
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and why it’s important to go with a
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specialist
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in this area is that the law is
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rapidly changing in california our elder
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abuse act
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was enacted 1992 which is pretty young
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for a law and the law changes on an
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annual basis
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and so an attorney to be effective has
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got to keep
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up with the changes in the law the
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changes
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in the court’s approach and
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interpretation of that law
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and we spend every day of our working
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life
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focused on these elder abuse cases and
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that gives us a distinct advantage
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which we pass along to our clients