Time is money!
During a shopping spree abroad the temptation is great to return to Curaçao with suitcases loaded with ‘souvenirs’ (read: clothes, shoes and accessories). In order to curtail the financial injury to my purse as much as possible, I try during such a shopping spree to handle the available money as efficiently as possible and not to spend it all on ‘souvenirs’.
Dealing efficiently with the hours to charge the clients, is a focal point in my perception of the law practice. Since it can never be the intention of the lawyer to cause financial damage to the purse of the clients that hired the lawyer, who conducted and completed their lawsuit. Therefore there should regularly be a balancing in the law practice of the financial interest of the client, against the cost of the legal procedure. In this way it may be achieved that each client gets his money’s worth.
The lawyer in practice
In 2002 Gisah finished her studies in Dutch law at the Leiden University in the Netherlands, specializing in Private Law. In 2003 she joined the law firm of Small Murray Scheper, attorneys-at-law, as an associate lawyer. Gisah is specialized in labour law, bankruptcy law and contract law. She also occupies herself with writing articles about various fields of law. Among other things she wrote an article on Criminal law which was published in the Saturday edition of the daily paper AMIGOE, the Ñapa and an article on labour law which appeared in the newsletter of the Association of Antillean Lawyers [AJV]. Apart from that, Gisah was among other things, actively involved as a Board-member of the Bar of Associate Lawyer-trainees. |
