The offer refused in month two is often better than the outcome reached in month fourteen, once somebody counts what the intervening year actually took out of them.
A boundary disagreement is the clearest example of a problem where an attorney is unnecessary for nearly all of it and genuinely essential for one specific part.
The difference between records that make a return straightforward and records that cost a weekend is not effort. It is entirely a question of when the effort happens.
Tuition is the figure on the letter and rarely the figure that decides anything. The rest of it is entirely knowable in January if somebody sits down and lists it.
The offer at the top of the letter costs the company least and helps you least. The genuinely useful information is further down, in the part nobody reads.
A course of treatment is priced in three parts, and the biggest gap between two quotes usually comes from where the room sits rather than what happens in it.