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when i’m
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speaking with a new or potential client
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that is looking to hire us
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or deciding whether or not they want to
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engage us to handle
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a particular matter i think the number
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one most important thing
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for a litigant or a party seeking out a
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lawyer
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needs to consider is they need to be
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comfortable
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with the attorney that they choose to
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hire they need to feel that they
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can trust the attorney that they choose
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to hire
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because hiring a lawyer is a little bit
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like having
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a mechanical work done on your car you
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don’t know what the mechanic’s doing to
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your car but you know at the end of the
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day you’re going to get a bill for it
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and you’re just trusting that they did
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the right thing hiring a lawyer
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is oftentimes an extremely confusing
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situation for clients
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because they can be dealing with a
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matter that involves litigation they can
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be buying a new home they can be
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involved in a business dispute
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and if they’re not comfortable that they
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can rely on
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you as their attorney for decisions that
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are completely foreign to them
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then the attorney-client relationship
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really doesn’t work well
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i was in the in the past not today
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affiliated with the illinois holocaust
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museum which is a holocaust museum that
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was built in skokie illinois just west
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of old orchard shopping center so i used
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to sit on the museum executive committee
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which was responsible for primarily
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raising
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funds and the fundraising effort to
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obtain the necessary funds in order to
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build
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the museum we initially used to meet at
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a much older
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smaller they called it a museum but it
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was really just an office building
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in skokie where holocaust survivors
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would frequent
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on a daily basis and i was involved in
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that
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i’m also a involved in the highland park
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legal aid clinic
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which is a pro bono legal aid clinic
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located in
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highland park illinois that serves
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residents of
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highland park and the surrounding areas
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there aren’t many
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pro bono legal aid clinics on the north
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or in the north suburbs of chicago that
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happens to be one of them so i do
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pro bono legal work for the highland
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park legal aid clinic
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i’m also a board member of
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the jewish national fund which is also
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known as the jnf
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the jnf is a philanthropic charitable
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organization that raises money for
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real-time needs
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for problems going on in israel
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and incident to my role at jnf i also
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sit on the national
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real estate council for the jnf