Tuesday, August 25, 2015
I have a potential tentative client to intervene in the Misissippi disclaimer case, but I think I would need Mississippi local counsel. (I should check the rules of that court.) That was one obstacle that kept my client from being able to intervene in the Missouri John Doe v Weedman case, which has now been dismissed without explanation.
Does anybody know anybody in MS? More generally, is there a general solution to the problem of needing local counsel? How do you find local counsel when you need one, in a pro bono case funded solely by the hope for legal fees down the road?
update
Requirement of Local Counsel. When a party appears by attorney, every complaint, answer, motion, application, notice of deposition, or other paper on behalf of the represented party must be signed, and every deposition, mediation, conference or hearing must be attended by at least one attorney of record admitted to the general practice of law in the district court in which the action is pending.
http://www.mssd.uscourts.gov/sites/mssd/files/2014MASTERCOPYCivil.pdf
Does anybody know anybody in MS? More generally, is there a general solution to the problem of needing local counsel? How do you find local counsel when you need one, in a pro bono case funded solely by the hope for legal fees down the road?
update
Requirement of Local Counsel. When a party appears by attorney, every complaint, answer, motion, application, notice of deposition, or other paper on behalf of the represented party must be signed, and every deposition, mediation, conference or hearing must be attended by at least one attorney of record admitted to the general practice of law in the district court in which the action is pending.
http://www.mssd.uscourts.gov/sites/mssd/files/2014MASTERCOPYCivil.pdf
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