Family Law
Divorce, custody, and support matters: drafting pleadings, motions, financial disclosures, and settlement agreements; managing discovery and case files; and court e-filing. We conduct independent legal research, including case law.
Services
Paralegal & litigation support
Flexible, secure, practice-fluent support for licensed attorneys — from a single filing to full case support.
The core of paralegal work travels well across practice areas: careful research, clean drafting, disciplined discovery, and filings that go out right the first time. We bring those skills to your matter regardless of subject area — and pair them with hands-on experience in the six practice areas below. Every engagement is scoped and conflict-checked before work begins, and everything we produce comes back to you for review under your supervision.
Core services
- Legal research Federal, state, county, and municipal sources, plus case law.
- Drafting Pleadings, motions, memoranda, and agreements.
- Discovery management Productions, Bates numbering, and redaction.
- Deposition preparation Outlines, exhibits, and question sets.
- Cite-checking Citations verified and conformed to style.
- E-filing State and federal systems, including Hawaii’s JEFS.
- Trust accounting & billing support IOLTA-compliant workflows in Clio and QuickBooks.
- Due diligence Background and records research on parties, properties, and claims.
Tools and databases we’ve used
- Case law & legal research
- Westlaw, Google Scholar (case law)
- Courts & filing
- PACER, eCourts, eFile
- Federal & state agencies
- BLM, DANR, EPA, SEC EDGAR
- Corporate & lien records
- Secretary of State registries, State UCC
- Local records
- Clerk of Court, Register of Deeds, Assessor, etc.
- Practice management
- Clio, QuickBooks, Adobe Acrobat
Practice areas
Criminal Law
Criminal defense and DUI matters: analysis of felony and misdemeanor case files to support trial strategy and pre-trial motions, statutory and case law research, discovery review and summary, and client interviews and intake.
Natural Resources
Mining and natural-resources matters: federal and state regulatory research (e.g. 43 CFR, SDCL), claim-staking analysis, location notices, and mapping exhibits built with ArcGIS and USGS data.
Environmental
Environmental regulatory research and document support across federal, state, county, and municipal sources. Experience using PACER, BLM, DANR, and EPA databases for litigation and due diligence research.
Trust & Estate
Experience in trust and estate matters arising in the natural-resources context, including research and document preparation.
Commercial Law
Experience in commercial matters arising in the natural-resources context, including research and document preparation.
Beyond our core areas
New territory, stated plainly
We’re actively broadening the practice areas we support. If your matter falls outside the areas above, we’re glad to take it on — and we’ll tell you plainly when it’s newer territory for us. The core paralegal work of research, drafting, discovery, e-filing, and due diligence transfers across practice areas, and every engagement is performed under your supervision as the licensed attorney. We are happy to learn from your expertise, and we are confident that we can adapt to your practice area and work style.
All services are performed for and under the supervision of licensed attorneys.
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