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The Lawyer-Quality Paralegal-Service

John Sovak, Owner

Suffern, NY 10901

(201) 934-3306

[[email protected]]

(I conduct my Business almost exclusively in the afternoon and evenings)

  ((when most of the Demand is), from around 2 or 3 in the afternoon until

  (about 10 or 11 in the late-evening. — If you call me in the morning, you are

  (all but certain to be leaving me a voice mail. — I Apologize for any inconvenience.)

(I also respond diligently, usually the same-day, or else the next-day, to Inquiries. —

  (More important, once you give me your Paid Assignment, I work expeditiously to

  (produce that Work, until Completion of that Assignment, usually within days for most

   (Assignments.)

PARALEGALS ARE THE BEST-VALUE IN LEGAL SERVICES, BY-FAR

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Legal Services are just shockingly Expensive.

Consequently, Spending Efficiently on this large Expense isn’t just Advisable, it’s just about Mandatory, if one wants to be able to Stay in the Fight. — To the End.

My Hourly Rate of $99.50 is 20% of $500, which is a common minimum Hourly Rate for most Lawyers in High-Cost areas of our Country. — My $99.50 is 15% of an Hourly Rate of $665. — I really am only 15% to 20% of the Price of many Lawyers.

There Truly-is NO Better Value in Legal Services than Paralegals. — Especially when they are Lawyer-Quality Paralegals.

LQPS, the Lawyer-Quality Paralegal-Service, is the Best-Value in Legal Services in America today, I say! — How can you put my Knowledge, Skills and Experience to work for you?

I AM NOT KIDDING – I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU!!!

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Ever hired a Lawyer and felt that you weren’t really getting their all?

It is an unfortunate truth that many Attorneys sell-out their clients and make deals with their opponents, for other future work, for non-legal work, what have you, when they should be zealously representing your interests.

Even if your Attorney isn’t Overtly Corrupt, there is always the matter of ‘Maintaining their Viability within the System’. — What that means and refers to is that Every Attorney ALWAYS has to be very Wary of NEVER getting any Judge too mad at them, because they will almost certainly have to appear before that Judge again.

Lawyers thus have an Institutionalized Interest in Going-Along to Get-Along. — And so that is what they All Always Do.

Paralegals don’t have this problem — EVER. — We are Invisible in almost every circumstance. — We don’t ever have to worry about appearing before that Judge the next time because we won’t.

I don’t do any of that. — If you hire me, you get the very best of me, at all times. — I Will Fight Hard for You.

BACKGROUND OF JOHN SOVAK

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I graduated from SUNY / Rockland Community College’s Paralegal Studies program in Spring 2002 with the AAS Degree in Paralegal Studies. — I made the Dean’s List.

I grew up a good Catholic boy in Monsey, NY in the ’60’s and ’70’s. — My Take-No-Prisoners style definitely emanates, in large measure, from being reared in a Town, like Ramapo, that values a certain Rock-Em, Sock-Em political and legal culture.

Today, I put those skills, and my wide and deep knowledge of law and politics, to work for you.

LEGAL STRATEGIES: — USE CASES

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Basically, my Argument to you here is that I follow a very-Thorough and very-Comprehensive  Work-Method of Reviewing every conceivable Defense or Claim and then assessing and assembling them for their Litigation Utility in that particular Matter.

It’s Best to be Thorough! — (Most Citations Omitted here.)

State RICO-Like Claims Dismissed with Only a Modicum of Digging

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New Jersey has two Laws, the Consumer Fraud Protection Act (NJSA § 56:8-1, et seq.) and the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (NJSA § 17:33A-1, et seq.), which are very much like the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1970 (18 USC § 1960, et seq.) (RICO), in that they also provide for Treble Damages and Attorney’s Fees, only in New Jersey the Trebling of the Damages and the Attorney’s Fees are MANDATORY.

My Customer had been Accused in the 430-page, 1100-paragraph, Complaint of complicity in a multitude of Insurance Fraud Schemes.

I ultimately found and wrote 5 different Defenses for my Customer, plus a Final Motion, in the alternative, asking for a More Definitive Statement

These were the five (5) Defenses: —

(a) —– Failure of to Serve Defendant in such a manner as to Confer either-or-both Personal Jurisdiction and//or In Personam Jurisdiction, and further that either-or-both the Process Served was Defective, and//or the Service of said Process was Defective;

(b) —– Failure to File within the Statute of Limitations, as to All Counts;

(c) —– Failure to State a Claim upon which Relief can be Granted, for the Massive Complaint NotIncluding even a single tale that Inculpated my Customer by Name. — NOT ONE, in 1100-paragraphs and 430-pages, as to All Counts;

(d) —– The Superior Court’s lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction over 5 of the 7 Counts, on Ground that ONLY the NJ Board of Medical Examiners could adjudicate Claims made under the New Jersey Administrative Code (NJAC), with NO PROVISION MADE FOR Suit by Private Plaintiffs, such as the Allstate Plaintiffs trying to do just-that here;

(e) —– 15 Equitable Defenses, as to All Counts; — and then –

If all of that Failed: —

(f) —– An Interrogatory-like Motion for a More Definitive Statement.

(ALL WITHIN THE RULES – Completely — but also sure to Intimidate even the most-seasoned Insurance-Litigation Attorneys.)

Most notably, I was able, merely by reading the applicable Law (NJSA § 45:9-22.5), to determine that the Plaintiffs – Allstate Insurance – had broken one of the Cardinal Rules of Regulatory and Administrative Law in the State of New Jersey.

The Law they sought to break was that they were deliberately attempting to Enforce provisions of the New Jersey Administrative Code, New Jersey’s Rules and Regulations, similar to the CFR, in the State’s Top Civil Trial Court, the Superior Court of New Jersey, for HUGE Money Damages and Declarative and Injunctive Relief, just for good measure.

            Only they are NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT, pursuant to NJSA § 45:1-23. — That knocked out 5 of the 7 Counts on Grounds of Subject Matter Jurisdiction, with one fell swoop.

            On the 2 remaining Counts, there were Statute of Limitations problems and further because they had Failed to State a Cause of Action upon which Relief may be Granted, here because nowhere in that 400-page monstrosity of a Complaint did Allstate Insurance see fit to actually name one single thing my Customer did.

That Woman got the Justice she was Entitled to with the Case against her Dismissed upon the Motion I wrote for her.

Running Over Her Opponent, Over-and-Over-and-Over

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In a Landlord-Tenant Case from the Southern Tier of New York State, I was able to find six (6) Independent Grounds for my Customer to Move to Dismiss the Petition and Notice of Petition for Eviction. — Six (6).

These are they:

(a) —– Failure to Serve a proper Notice of Petition: — ONLY the Clerk of Court can Sign a Notice of Petition for a pro se Petitioner (Plaintiff). — This Petitioner Signed his own, which he could Not-Do.

(b) —– Petitioner did Not Serve the Notice of Petition properly, in that he arranged Service of it OUTSIDE the permitted Winder for Service of such Notices of Petition.

(c) —– Petitioner NEVER Purchased a proper Index Number, which is a foundational Element of EVERY Court Case (more-commonly known as a ‘Docket Number’). — In NYS, usually called an Index Number.

(d) —- Petitioner did NOT Properly Describe the Property whose Possession was to be sought in the Case. — Not specific enough.

(e) —- Petitioner Failed to Serve a proper Predicate Notice on my Customer (most-commonly known as a ‘Notice to Quit’).

(f) —- the Court itself lacking Subject Matter Jurisdiction (an extremely unusual Argument in any Landlord-Tenant Case) in the Case, because it actually pertained to an existing Contract between these Parties for the Sale of Real Property, which in New York is a Case that can only be heard in our County-wide Supreme Court (usually called the ‘Superior Court’ in most States).

What I am most Proud-of here is that I suggested to my Customer, and she Accepted this Advice, that she ‘Keep her Powder Dry’, and only use these Defenses one-at-a-time, all-the-better to Tire the Petitioner out before he would ever get anywhere close to a Judgment for Possession (the Objective of every Eviction Action).

HOURLY-RATE FOR ALL CONTESTED MATTERS

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For purposes of Pricing, my Services are divided into two separate Categories:  Premium and Non-Premium.  Premium Work is defined as ALL: — Administrative, Appellate, Criminal, Intellectual-Property and Legal Malpractice Work. — Non-Premium Work is defined as everything else.

For ALL Premium Work: — Administrative, Appellate, Criminal, Intellectual-Property and Legal Malpractice Work, the Hourly Rate is $124.50 // Hour. — After 10 Hours, the Rate drops to $113.18 // Hr. (= $1245 // 11), as per the 11-for-10 Offer.

For ALL Work OTHER THAN: — Administrative, Appellate, Criminal, Intellectual-Property and Legal Malpractice Work, the Hourly-Rate is $99.50//Hour. — For Customers who purchase and use 10 or more hours of Work, in total, I offer a 10% Time Bonus, or 11 hours for the price of 10 (= $995 // 11, or $90.45//Hr.). 

Terms and Conditions of Hourly-Rate Work-Assignments

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All Work is pre-Paid. — NO Work is performed Prior to Payment.

All Payments Purchase a specific number of Hours of Time, which Amount of Time is equal to the Amount Paid divided by the Applicable Rate.

There is no conversion of Hourly-Rate Work Assignments into Fixed-Price Projects. 

Should you decide that you are so unhappy with my Services that you want to Sue me for providing inferior or insufficient Services, then you Agree to Sue me only for the amount of money that you have Paid to me for Services. — Further, you Agree to Venue in the Court of Competent Jurisdiction in the County of Rockland, State of New York, for any such Suit.

Payment Terms and Conditions: — Secure Payments Only

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I only Accept permanently Non-Reversible Forms of Payment, to wit: — Cash, Check, Money Order, Direct Deposit or else Western Union or MoneyGram. — I expect to shortly have access to the Stripe Payment Service.

Credit Cards – and ALL Credit Card-equivalents (e.g.- Venmo and PayPal) are Expressly NOT Accepted for Payment. — Ever. — Credit Card Issuers now routinely DENY Payments where Services have been properly rendered. — And now, this phenomenon is happening up-to, and even more-than, a Full Year after the Services were performed.

Credit Cards are not a Reliable Form of Payment for Legal Services, in my Experience.

If you are uncomfortable Paying me in a Secure Fashion – FOR ME – then we are unlikely to be able to Work together. — I Regret that, but I Accept-it, also.

Work Process for Hourly-Rate Work-Assignments

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I Deliver all of my Work within a day or so of my performing it. — Delivery is usually accomplished Immediately after Completion of a chunk of Work. — I send Billing Messages within a day or so of performing all Work, but usually Immediately, and the Billing Messages have the Work performed either contained within the Message or else Attached thereto.

To start off, usually the first task is Document Review. — Here, after I give your Documents a good read-through (or two), I will send you a message with my summary of what I have read.

Next comes the Legal Research. — Research results come in two ways. — First, there are electronic Files, usually MS Word or Adobe Acrobat PDF files, and since these Files are usually small, I attach them to the message. — Some Research Material is collected from Books, and that Material has to then be Scanned, and Scan Files are usually large, so they are Delivered to you via G-Mail’s Drive feature.

Finally comes the Legal Writing. — This is what the vast majority of Customers are interested in (understandably so), and it is where I really shine. — I love to Write Legal Documents. — (Yes, that does sound weird to say that out-loud.) — Legal Writing is always done in MS Word, and so those Files are always small and are thus Attached to the Billing Message.

Finally, my process is Research-intense, or Research-heavy. — Not a few Customers object, with some openly stating that they want only to pay for the Writing, but not the Research. — This request, of course, is impossible to Grant. — (I won’t lie to you that I don’t much like getting this request, seeing it as a veiled request for an additional discount, which I don’t give to anyone.) 

Areas of Law Supported

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Administrative Law – (Premium Subject Matter Area*)

Appellate – (Premium Subject Matter Area*)

Bankruptcy

Business Formations, Transactions and Disputes — (My Specialty back in College.)

Constitutional Law

Contracts

Criminal – (Premium Subject Matter Area*)

Employment & Labor Law

Family Law: — Child Custody and Support, mostly, & Divorce — (About 1//3 of my Business.)

Immigration

Intellectual Property – (Premium Subject Matter Area*) — (Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights.)

Landlord-Tenant — (About 1//3 of my Business.)

Litigation, General

Personal Injury

Real Property Law

Regulatory Law

Securities Law

Tax Law

Trusts and Estates

Other — All Types of Law

I handle ALL Subject Matter areas of the Law. — I am equally comfortable helping you Litigate your matter in the Federal System as I am in the State Courts.

Closing

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I am experienced in each and all of the areas of the Litigation Process, and I promise to give you my very best effort to obtain success in your matter.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

The Lawyer-Quality Paralegal-Service

John Sovak, Owner

Suffern, NY 10901

(201) 934-3306

[[email protected]]