My job is to take quick action to remove any temporary advantage the other side may have, and chart the clearest course through the legal process toward my clients' long-term goals. Of equal importance, it's my job to demonstrate to my clients that I am in their corner for the duration. Mark notes that fortunately the practice of family law involves much more than a bitter struggle between adversaries. Often there is room for productive compromise. In other cases, the parties are able to work out most issues without lawyers, but need assistance formalizing an agreement.
Some cases are pure pleasure, such as adoptions.
Criminal Defence Mark has received excellent training in this area during his years of association with one of the foremost defence lawyers in the province. Mark has found that representing an accused person is a fascinating combination of gearing up to win a trial while bargaining hard to avoid one. Most criminal cases don't go to trial because there is usually a way to resolve the matter whereby the accused gets a say in the result. Where the ordeal of a trial is unavoidable, the hours of preparation pay dividends, because trials aren't won by accident. A good defence lawyer is thinking about the trial from the moment he takes the case.