Litigation Services
Litigation Services Provided To Attorneys
- Identify notarial-legal issues and suggest case and trial strategies and arguments;
- Suggest sources of evidence;
- Help evaluate merit, causation and damages;
- Perform legal literature review and case research;
- Draft memoranda and briefs;
- Research and evaluate policies/practices/procedures/protocols/forms/handbooks/systems for compliance with state and federal notarial-related statutes and ethics codes;
- Analyze and draft complaints, answers, motions, and other judicial pleadings;
- Prepare interrogatories and discovery requests;
- Prepare discovery deposition (EBT), de bene ese deposition and trial questions;
- Prepare hearing and trial exhibits, visual aids and other demonstrative evidence;
- Develop and participate in mock hearing and trial exercises;
- Investigate the opposing expert witness;
- Interview and prepare other hearing and trial witnesses;
- Collaborate with forensic document examiner to enhance evidence analysis;
- Attend various conferences, hearings and trials as a litigation team advisor;
- Compare actual services to proper practice vis-a-vis the Code of Professional Responsibility, canons of ethics and related ethics codes;
- Ascertain collateral consequences of criminal conduct, including state bar proceedings;
- Prepare a position paper and written opinion or report;
- Testify at hearings and trials; and,
- Evaluate and assist with actions for post-trial motions, including a new trial, change of verdict or review by appellate courts.
Curriculum vitae and detailed fee schedule are available upon request.
"Mr. Piombino's expertise and his vibrant enthusiasm for his subject qualifies him as one of the foremost authorities on the subject matter of notary public. I have attended many courses and seminars from the late 40s through the present time. I personally class Mr. Piombino's efforts among the best."
- J. Podeszwa