The route, and where it goes
| The route | Where it goes |
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| If the matter is legal or professional | |
| Through the firm |
Send a legal or professional inquiry through his profile at Practus, LLP Legal services are provided through Practus, LLP, so anything that could become a representation belongs on that route rather than in a personal inbox. It also means the conflicts check that has to happen before anyone can talk properly about your matter starts on the first day rather than the third. |
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A personal address rather than a firm switchboard. Fine for a question, an introduction, a speaking or teaching request, or asking whether a matter is the kind of thing he does. |
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| Telephone |
If a complaint has just arrived and you would rather say it out loud than write it down, this is the faster route. Voicemail is read as seriously as email. |
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Also where the seven recommendations reproduced on this site can be checked against their originals. |
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| Practical | |
| Where he is | Kansas City, Missouri, and cases in federal district courts around the country. No street address is published here, because a street address on a website is useful to nobody except the people who send mail you did not ask for. If a meeting in person is the right thing, it gets arranged in the conversation that sets it up. |
| How quickly you will hear back | No response window is promised here, because it would depend entirely on what is already on the calendar that week, and a promise made to everyone in advance is not worth much. If your deadline is genuinely close, say so in the first line and it will be treated accordingly. |
| Before you write | Please do not send confidential information through this site or in a first email. Reading this page or writing to him does not create an attorney-client relationship, and until one exists and a conflicts check is done, confidentiality is not what people assume it is. A short description of the situation, with no secrets in it, is enough to start. |
Nothing here expires
There is no consultation to book, no calendar with three slots left in it, and no reason given why today is better than next week. If you are still reading and deciding, that is a reasonable thing to be doing, and the material on this site is meant to be useful whether or not you ever write.
If a complaint has just arrived and you want something practical in the next hour rather than a conversation, the first week after a complaint arrives is written for exactly that, and it asks nothing of you.