Whew!!

Yesterday is over!!

For those of you waiting to here how my bad case turned out, the settlement went down like this.   My client came in and we worked from 8:30 to 12;40 finishing off all the documents and sending back a packet of signed, notarized, revised documents before the 1:00 deadline for arbitration.  My cover letter said, "If you client signs these, the case is over." We included language formerly rejected. 

It's amazing what a "sign here and you're done" packet can do for completing a project. Mr. Mean Lawyer was all friendly, as if he hadn't been a pig for the past month.  Whereas before he was insisting on certain terms,  today he admitted, "Yeah, I recall we agreed to different terms at mediation."  "So why the denial for the past week? was my thought. 

When I called to tell my client her case settled and we didn't have to undergo a fight about whether the arbitration was properly noted, my client said when she left my office, she stopped at a store and found a suit that she knew was her "divorce suit."  For her it was an omen.  Everything about the case shifted in tone.  She was once again forward thinking and engaged in the possibilities for life, not rehashing what was and how she got burned in the process.

The weather was colder and grayer today, but I'll tell you, after the recent  heat the day felt refreshing and renewed.  Literally and metaphorically.      

Life feels returned to normal.  Conflict over.