Just before one o’clock in the afternoon on January 25th, 2013, I received an email from Jill Bechtold at Mathis & Murphy, P.A.. Attached was a scan of a letter — dated January 21, 2013 — which she had received from someone named Sam Chavin at Woodland Terrace. Jill wrote me: I received the […]
By the end of November 2012, three and a half months after mom died, I was completely fed up with the lack of communication between me and my lawyer. Finding a lawyer willing to handle the case in the first place was like pulling teeth, and now that I was back in Los Angeles it […]
At eleven o’clock in the morning on November 8th, 2012, I sent the following questions via email to Steven Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP: Hey Steve, (1) You said that Woodland Terrace is concerned because I have not been appointed the PR of her estate by a court. Would it expedite things if […]
I sent this note to attorney Steven Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP at the end of August, 2012: The consumer protection settlement announced this morning is based on a long-running investigation into whether Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, paid kickbacks to providers to use the drug for unapproved purposes […]
I sent this email to attorney Steven Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP on August 27th, 2012 at 12:27 pm: Hey Steve, We are in the middle of packing everything for our return to LA first thing tomorrow morning. I did have a couple of questions about the contracts you sent. Is it okay […]
A little after five o’clock in the afternoon of August 15th, just a few days after mom died, attorney Steve Phillips returned my call. I explained to him the events of the last week and quickly gave him an overview of everything that has happened over the last nine months. Mr. Phillips told me that […]
A couple of days after mom died, I called 1 the Law Offices of Michael Bard at (800) 516-2132 and spoke to a woman named Laurie, who answered the phone there. She asked me to explain what sort of problem I was facing and I explained — quickly — the events of the last week. […]
A little after lunch on August 15th, 2012, I called Steve Phillips, an attorney who is an acquaintance of my father-in-law’s best friend. He did not answer, so I left him a very brief message asking him to return my call and telling him how I’d been referred to him.