Lawyer: Are you a Notary Public?
I am one of our firm's 'road warriors' -depositions, client meetings, meeting with witnesses. Invariably the need for a notary will arise.
I'm a Notary. It's so ridiculously easy and cheap, it is a wonder more attorneys are not. How does being a Notary help?
1)I met a witness last week in a city about 300 miles away. The facts I gathered were simply written out, attested to by the witness, and then notarized. To be on the safe side I took a photo of the driver's license of the witness. Easy.
2)A small town medical provider had records in that same town where the witness was located. I prepared in advance a records certification, and when they informed no notary was available, no problem. (I may have to deal with evidentiary issues later, but for now it worked).
3)When a client travels to my office for a late afternoon meeting there were times when the staffers who were NPs had left, and we had to track down one in the building. Never again.
Take the time to apply, and you are set.
I wonder the same thing as a notary myself. We do notarizations for law firms all the time, and I think to myself...why don't they have a notary on staff? It's like a $100 to get all set up for 4 years. Hmmm.
Lawyers are very busy people. They also understand conflict of interests. There is another term they also respect, appearance thereof.
No attorney wants his office involved in a matter that may create a credibility issue for a mere $50 - $100.
That is why a notary public who has no relations to the transaction is a more impartial witness to a document signing.
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