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Law Firms

Franklyn J. Engel, Esq

21 Tinker Street

Woodstock, NY 12498

845-679-7378

845-679-7094

justi88@attglobal.net

Quality Legal Services - Serving Woodstock for 24 Years

Andrea Durgin Pawliczek, Esq.

8 Bridge Street,

P.O. Box 97

Montgomery, NY 12549-0097

845-457-7702

845-457-4348 fax

Full Service, General Practice Law Office, with emphasis on: Family Law; Real Estate; Civil Litigation; Employment Discrimination / Civil Rights; Criminal Defense; Historic Preservation Law

Dale D. Hughes, Attorney

PO Box 402

Woodstock, NY 12498

845-679-1196

845-586-2815 fax

DHughes@catskill.net

Description: Real estate (residential & commercial); Wills & estates; Elder law; Planning/Zoning; NYC Watershed matters; Municipal law; Environmental; General corporate and business

Jeff Brody Injury Law

72 Maiden Lane

Kingston, NY 12401

(845) 338-7494

Description: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Lawyer Kingston NY, Ulster County

The Law Offices of Robert J. White Esq.

PO Box 11

Cornwallville, NY 12418

(518) 239-6601

Get all the money YOU deserve from a local attorney! A Full Service Negligence Firm protecting the rights of the Seriously Injured throughout New York State. Speeding ticket specialists Traffic ticket attorneys and DUI attorneys

Mireille C. Sikora

420 East 64th Street

New York, NY 10021

593-8000

593-0011 fax

Sean J. Doolan, Esq.

29 Church Street

Catskill, NY 12414

(518) 943-4335

520-441-6256 fax

sjdoolan@aol.com

Trial Attorney - General practice with an emphasis in Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home/Elder Care Abuse, Auto Accidents, Divorces/Custody Cases

Prepaid Legal

114 LaCorte Rd

Catskill, NY 12414

518-943-9785

Description: Legal services offered at a low monthly fee.

Stein Legal Services

Woodstock, NY 12498

P.O. Box 27

845-679-4953

Description:: We are a gay-owned and gay-operated law practice dedicated to serving the legal needs of lesbian and gay clients and others in alternative family forms. Our practice includes(1) family law; (2) estate planning; (3) elder law (4) real estate; and (5) matters involving discrimination.

Paralegal

Maria Rauch

P.O. Box 3545

Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

845-240-1372

email: mariatc@optonline.net 

Description: Certified Paralegal, Notary; Family Law (Divorce, Separation, Custody, Visitation, Child Support); Estate & Elder law (Wills, Powers of Attorney, Guardianships, Health Care Proxies); Criminal and Civil Actions; Services include Document Preparation, Correspondence, Legal Research & Memoranda, Trial Preparation.

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?

WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?

WITNESS: July 18th.

ATTORNEY: What year?

WITNESS: Every year.

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?

WITNESS: I forget.

ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?

ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?

WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.

ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?

WITNESS: Forty-five years.

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?

WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"

ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?

WITNESS: My name is Susan.

ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?

WITNESS: We both do.

ATTORNEY: Voodoo?

WITNESS: We do.

ATTORNEY: You do?

WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?

WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?

WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?

WITNESS: Uh....

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: How many were boys?

WITNESS: None.

ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?

WITNESS: By death.

ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?

WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.

ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?

WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?

WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?

WITNESS: Oral.

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?

WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?

WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

WITNESS: Huh?

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

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