Meet Your Paralegal: A Conversation with Stacy Recinella
Meet Your Paralegal
In today’s episode, Seth invited Stacy Recinella, one of the paralegals from his firm, to join the show. The conversation allows Seth and Pete to discuss the role of the paralegal with the intention of giving you insight into what the paralegal will do for you, how they’re connected to your case, what sorts of things they take care of, and why your paralegal should be your new best friend on your own case.
More About Stacy
With over 11 years of experience, Stacy has been working as a paralegal exclusively in the area of Family Law since 2013. She is naturally inquisitive and enjoys utilizing her analytical and critical thinking skills to provide detailed support to attorneys and clients. She has worked for firms in Missouri, Georgia, and now Florida. As a part of NLG, Stacy will support attorneys and clients through the gathering of information, facts and evidence, engage in client conversations, communicate with courts and other legal firms, and provide the foundational support in preparing for a trial and/or hearing. Her ability to help clients navigate through an often overwhelming process with compassion and understanding is one of the most rewarding aspects of her job. Stacy truly understands what the firm’s clients are experiencing, as she went through a four-year, highly-contested divorce with minor children which ended in 2014. Two months ago, Stacy moved to Tampa with her husband, Kevin, and began working as a paralegal with NLG. In addition to having a blended family of four children, a daughter-in-law, and one grandchild (with another due in early 2023), Stacy and Kevin have two dogs, one cat, and a blue-and-gold Macaw. She loves the Florida weather, spending the day at the beach or by the pool, and having an active lifestyle.
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Intro:
Welcome to How to Split a Toaster, a Divorce Podcast about saving your relationships, from TruStory FM. Today, we'd like to introduce you to your para toaster.
Seth Nelson:
Welcome to show, everybody. I'm Seth Nelson, and as always, I'm here with my good friend, Pete Wright. Every now and again, we like to look inside the firm. We've introduced you to our attorneys. They're great, of course, but it's possible the most important person to you behind the scenes is your divorce paralegal. Let me tell you, paralegals rock. They juggle. They schedule. They always have a bird's eye view of your case, what you need, when you need it. You really need to listen if you're about to go through a divorce on how to best use your paralegal. Today, we're going to give you our very own Stacy Recinella. Stacy, welcome to the toaster.
Stacy Recinella:
Thank you, Seth.
Seth Nelson:
Okay, Pete, before you get started, let me tell you. You always jump right in with questions.
Pete Wright:
I do.
Seth Nelson:
But let me tell you how this went down today. I'm like, "Hey, Stace, what you doing this afternoon?" And she's like, "Oh my God, I got all this stuff that you told me I had to get done. It's like a Friday. We got to get this stuff out." I'm like, "Awesome, let's take a break. You're going to be on the podcast," and she's like, "What are you talking about?" I'm like, "You're fine. You've gone through a divorce," which we're going to maybe touch on in how it relates to dealing with paralegals, but we're not going to talk about Stacy's divorce. That's like five shows worth of information on that one.
Stacy Recinella:
A little bit more.
Pete Wright:
Wait a minute, wait a minute, I just need to back up just so Stacy knows. Stacy, we put you on this schedule with Seth's blessing like three months ago and he just told you today that you're being on the show?
Stacy Recinella:
Yes. He likes to keep us all guessing.
Pete Wright:
Dream job. Am I right?
Seth Nelson:
That's why you need a paralegal to keep lawyers straight.
Pete Wright:
That's exactly right. I have been very excited to have you on the show, first and foremost, because I think there's opportunity to talk a little bit of dirt about Seth. We'll save that maybe until later. But we have mentioned the term paralegal on this show a number of times over the last few years and we've never been able to talk about what the paralegal actually does. My hunch is that people listening to the show who are thinking about divorce, who are nervous about the legal process, are likely uncertain what a paralegal does.
Let's talk about it. Let's talk. I want to know, what do you do? What makes you great at what you do? What can clients count on from you that they can learn to expect from you and not have to deal with their lawyer? How are you a hero? That's really what I'm talking about.
Stacy Recinella:
I think the most important thing or one of the most important thing is a paralegal is kind of the liaison and the customer service person between the client and the attorney. This position keeps the case moving, whether it's questions from the client, talking with opposing counsel, scheduling things, knowing how to serve people or do the ins and outs and the more detailed processes, that's what the paralegal does. Also, if you have a paralegal that's been in the client's shoes, then they have somebody there that understands that everything fluctuates day by day.
A paralegal specifically in family law is not only a legal professional, but they're also understanding on what the client is actually going through and what help that they're actually seeking.
Seth Nelson:
Pete, here's my best analogy on this. If you take someone who's in the hospital and the doctor comes in and says, "Well, I need an IV and we need to be running these fluids and stuff," they're not the ones that come in and put the IV in and put the medication on.
Pete Wright:
The paralegal does.
Seth Nelson:
Exactly. And then when it's not going into that vein, the paralegal can say, "I've been through this. I know, I have a rolling vein too. Let me try the other hand." The doctors take all the credit with their fancy white coats and stuff, but we know who's really doing the work.
Pete Wright:
It's the nurses. It's the floor nurses. They always know more and are more prepared than the doctors. Is that what you're saying? Is that the analogy that we're...
Stacy Recinella:
Well, yes, and they're getting the doctor ready.
Pete Wright:
Did you see how fast Stacy answered that question?
Stacy Recinella:
Oh yes.
Seth Nelson:
Yeah. Welcome to my day, Pete.
Pete Wright:
Outstanding. I can infer a certain sort of skillset that would go into making a great paralegal. What do you think it is that drew you to this particular part of the field?
Stacy Recinella:
I already had a background. My degree was in journalism. I've been in journalism for a long time. Went to college, graduated with a journalism degree. Writing and research, totally in my background from the time I was probably 14. Spent a lot of time in marketing. When I went through my own divorce, about three years into my divorce, I decided that my passion was not marketing. It was I wanted to use my talents with research and writing and my experience in my divorce. I quit my job and I went out and found a job in a family law firm. It was basically my own personal experience that led me to wanting to help people and assist them through the divorce.
I felt like my experience, I could relate to them. I knew what questions they were going to ask. I could anticipate how to respond because that's what I wanted and that's the information that I was seeking when I was going through it myself. My passion changed and I wanted to do more and help people through that rocky part because there is life on the other side. Once it's over, I wanted to be the person that helped them through it so that they can live a better life or be set for their future down the road.
Seth Nelson:
That's the end of our show because that's amazing.
Pete Wright:
That's amazing. Stacy's wearing a red cape and she's solving problems and saving the day. We've talked in the past about some of the things Seth has asked of his paralegals in history. I wonder if you could do a quick survey or review of some of the things, maybe the rarer things that you don't do day to day, but some of the things that you might be counted on to do to help clients through a particular frustrating thing. I don't want to say what's the weirdest thing you've ever had to do as a paralegal. That seems a little bit too Buzzfeed to me, but you get the idea.
Seth Nelson:
We've got that one issue with the registered agent that we just dealt with.
Stacy Recinella:
Yes.
Pete Wright:
I don't know what that means. What's a registered agent and why do I care?
Seth Nelson:
Being the lawyer, I'll answer that question.
Stacy Recinella:
Okay. All right, sounds good.
Seth Nelson:
Another thing to know, Pete as we go through and Stacy's very good at this, is a paralegal is not allowed to give legal advice because that's what a lawyer can do. A great paralegal such as Stacy will sometimes have to say to a client, "That's a really good question. I can't answer that. I'll have to have the lawyer talk to you about it." Now, I assure you, nine times out of 10, Stacy knows the answer, but she's just not allowed to say it.
Pete Wright:
Wow! That is extraordinarily frustrating. As a guy who spends all day talking, I would not do well at that.
Seth Nelson:
But by way of example, there's a bank that we are going to serve a document on. A bank isn't a person. Who do you actually give the document that you have to serve? It's called a registered agent. When you set up a company, check your local jurisdiction, but this is in every state of the union, if there's a company set up, they have to define a person that will be their registered agent that we can physically hand documents to to say, "You've been legally served. You have to respond to this." Okay?
Pete Wright:
Oh, okay. A registered agent, meaning a representative of the firm being served.
Seth Nelson:
You got it. Now, there's companies that will say, "I'll be your registered agent," and then you can serve that company and there's a way to do it. You find that person. We had to serve this bank. I haven't dealt with this bank before. I don't know who the registered agent is. I just go to Stacy, "Hey, we need to serve this bank." In doing her research, which she loves to do, she goes on the Florida Secretary of State website. She finds out who the registered agent is. She prepares all the documents that we need to send to the registered agent.
She makes them look pretty, make sure we have all the attachments, and then it has to be signed by a lawyer. She brings me this neat package that I review and I get to put my John Hancock on it and like, look at my great work, but Stacy did it all. And then she sends it off. We send it to our process server and we serve it on the registered agent. Now, the registered agent sends an email back saying, "We're not the registered agent." Stacy loses her shit.
Stacy Recinella:
I am right. I know I'm right.
Seth Nelson:
She comes in my office and says, "I have an email that I've drafted, but I think you should look at it before I send it." Stacy has this very strongly worded email. Usually I'm the guy in the office that sends those types of emails, so I had to tone hers down.
Stacy Recinella:
I didn't use any explicit words though.
Seth Nelson:
That's true.
Stacy Recinella:
It was very clean.
Pete Wright:
A lot of synonyms.
Stacy Recinella:
I definitely thought them when I was writing them.
Seth Nelson:
But she basically says, "You are the registered agent. Here's where it is on the Secretary of State website." She attaches everything and she sends it off. And then later she comes back and says, "Did you see the responsive email?" I'm like, "The one where they nicely say that you're right and they were wrong and they'll deal with it accordingly?"
Pete Wright:
Are you paraphrasing? I want the details. What does it sound like when an email has a tail between its legs?
Seth Nelson:
They said, "We received your second email. Please disregard the email we sent to you. We'll handle this accordingly."
Stacy Recinella:
I was very brave out.
Pete Wright:
Outstanding! I mean, as a paralegal, worth it, right? #Worthit. That's a nice little win.
Seth Nelson:
But that's an example of how powerful paralegals are, because, one, Stacy did it faster than I could have done it and at a lower hourly rate to the client, had everything packaged for me to do a quick review, and it's done. What clients don't necessarily realize is having the paralegal be your friend and be on your side is really important. I think Stacy said it best when they're the liaison between them and the lawyer and dealing with the customer service aspect because we value every client contact that we have. We have so many cases. Like we've talked about before, Pete, how do you keep them all straight?
Well, you keep them all straight because you have a system where you can get to all the information quickly. Some cases you remember more than others, but the fine nuances of a case or something that's basic, how many kids, what are their birthdays, I don't remember every client and what the birthday is of the kid. I'm lucky to remember my own kid's birthday. But Stacy might come in and say, "Hey, next week this client's kid is having a birthday. Let's make sure that the parenting time is going well," and then I'll make that call because she's on it. There's a lot of little things.
Pete Wright:
Let me ask for either of you, what is the expectation of the paralegal, I guess paralegal writ large and you, Stacy, in court? Do you ever go to court? Do you ever sit at the table? Is there any sort of an event like that?
Stacy Recinella:
I do. I've sat in on Zoom hearings. I've actually second chaired trials before with my assigned attorney. Those are all kind of important roles. Either way, I'm taking notes, writing things down, noting what exhibits have been entered, omitted or not. Sometimes being a gopher if something needs to be collected as a rebuttal piece. I'm there attending it, then I'm there and able to do that. It is very effective to have a paralegal I think at the hearing.
Seth Nelson:
And having a quality paralegal. I think laying this out is important, Pete. If I am the lawyer in court sitting at counsel's table, to my left will be Stacy, the paralegal, who's helped prepare all the evidence, all the binders, make sure they have the witness outlines, we've done all the research on anything we think is going to be objectable or not, our pretrial statement, the statement, the opening, our closing that we have written. It's not like she's just walking in and it's all there. She's helped prepare it. It's in her mind. It's in her brain. She knows where it is, why it's there, what we're doing.
And then next to her is the client. And that buffer between the lawyer and the client as we talked about with Judge Tibbals, hey, when the client's whispering in the lawyer's ear, it's never a good thing. We give the client a pad of paper and say, "Any questions you have, write down here. Pass them to Stacy. If she thinks I need to see him, she'll pass it to me."
Stacy Recinella:
That's an important system to have because the attorney really needs to listen to what's being said in court, whether it's witness testimony. Having a paralegal there for the client to kind of, "Oh, he hasn't said this or this piece of evidence," that's better to be funneled so that the attorney can continue to listen and then the paralegal can support the attorney by gathering that information. Sometimes as a paralegal, you've already reviewed all of those documents, so you're also aware that maybe the testimony or there's a rebuttal document that can refute what is being said.
Just by having a paralegal there and that support takes it off to the attorney and lets the attorney do his job in court or her job in court more effectively. Because if they're not listening to what's going on, they could miss something important, not object to something or just not hear something. That's another way that a paralegal can add something too by sitting in on a hearing or even a trial.
Pete Wright:
Seth, it's the holidays, the harrowing holidays of Halloween.
Seth Nelson:
Scaretober, baby.
Pete Wright:
It is a real fright night, Seth. What is the scariest thing that you could be dealing with? In all seriousness, the scariest thing you could be dealing with is any sort of accusation or dealing with yourself substance abuse in your divorce case. Am I right?
Seth Nelson:
Absolutely. That's why we've teamed up with Soberlink, not only to help individuals going through a divorce prove their sobriety, but also just a way to make sure that you and your kids are safe, especially during the holiday time. Halloween, lot of drinking. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, lot of alcohol consumption. This is a way where you can say, "Listen, when I'm with the kids and they're under my care custody and control, I'm going to be focused on them and I will not be drinking." Soberlink is going to help you prove that that's what you're doing.
Pete Wright:
What is Soberlink? Soberlink is a device and a service. Now, the device is a breathalyzer. It's a fancy breathalyzer that you charge up and you keep with you in your car. You keep with you whenever you need to prove that you are sober. You blow into Soberlink. It has facial recognition to it. It takes a little picture of you, make sure that it's you really breathing into the Soberlink device, and then it sends that information into the cloud so that it can go to the people who matter. It goes to council.
It can go to your co-parent, your former spouse. You're about to pick up the kids, you want to prove your sober, Soberlink is going to be the thing to do it for you. Working hard to keep children safe, offering this remote alcohol monitoring system, it is the gold standard because of this technology.
Seth Nelson:
The other thing, Pete, the other thing is it is third party independent verification that you're doing what you're supposed to do and it's not he said, she said. Nothing wrong with that.
Pete Wright:
Save your bacon.
Seth Nelson:
Exactly. Don't miss out on Soberlink's free guide for the upcoming holiday season. You can request it today at www.soberlink.com/toaster.
Pete Wright:
I was talking to a friend over lunch yesterday and I was laying out some of the podcasts we were recording and I said, "We're going to be doing this episode introducing the paralegal role." They said, "Oh, paralegal, isn't that almost a lawyer?" I feel like that's a misunderstanding. Just as, to continue our metaphor, nursing is a profession unto itself. My understanding at this point is being a paralegal is a profession unto itself. Do you ever have a design to be an attorney? Is this a practice field for you? Tell me how that works.
Stacy Recinella:
The paralegal is a profession unto itself, but there is a lot of what I would consider matriculation from being a paralegal into looking at being an attorney. That was something that even crossed my mind. Seth and I were just talking about it the other day, something that crossed my mind back in 2019. I sat for the LSAT. I was at a firm and it was more guardian ad litem work. I was missing the trial prep. I was missing high complex cases. I was like, "I'll just go sit for the LSAT. I'll just go to law school." It was kind of funny, two days after I got my scores, I joined a firm that was in highly contested, high asset types of cases in the Atlanta area.
I'm very new to Tampa. Well, I came down in May and joined NLG, but moved, I guess, bought our house in July down here. Hurricane Ian welcomed us to Florida less than two months after we bought a house. But at that point, I determined that I just wanted to remain as a paralegal. I really like what I do. I feel that with the drafting and the research and the knowledge, I enjoy my position. I love working with clients. I just didn't see how putting JD after my last name would change what I like to do.
Seth Nelson:
There's two things here, Pete, and Stacy would never say this so I'm just going to say it. She says to me, "Yeah, I took the LSAT," and anything over 160 is a great score. Let's just start with that for people who don't know and the crazy grading system that they have on these standardized tests. Anything over 160, you're doing really well. She goes, "I got a 163," which I remarked, "I got a 162." Stacy is too kind to say that. That's what people have a misconception of, that just because you're a lawyer, that you're the smartest guy in the room. When Stacy talks about drafting, yes, can Stacy draft a notice of appearance?
That's pretty much a form. No problem. But what Stacy does is when we get those financial documents in and she sees that, wait a minute, there was a bank transfer from this bank to another bank account, we don't have that other bank account, and now she's doing a letter to the other side saying, "Hey, we're missing a bank account." Or your client says that they don't have a Venmo, but on a bank statement, we see transfers to Venmo. And then you're drafting requests for productions, interrogatories, which are questions that they have to write sworn answers to, and how those are worded makes a difference.
When you have a great paralegal that's done it before, understand the concepts, understands the law, understand what we're trying to prove, understand the information we're trying to gather to see whether we can prove our case or not. That first initial drafting, which the first drafting is always the heavy lifting, that can be done at someone at a lower hourly rate that's doing it day in and day out, and then have a lawyer review it. I might tweak it here and there, and then they learn the lawyer's style, because sometimes it's just style over substance. Sometimes I'll make a substantive change and say, "Oh, I'm not doing that. Here's why."
And that's just kind of I might see a bigger part of the case and ultimately I'm responsible. But sometimes I might just be like, "Oh, this is stylistic. I work hard not to change the style. Because if the substance is there, I'm good. But ultimately, I'm the guy that has to argue it in court and Stacy appreciates that. Yeah, you're the one standing in front of the judge, not me. I'm second chair. I can look and roll my eyes and be like, "I told him, judge."
Pete Wright:
All the law, none of the responsibility.
Stacy Recinella:
I can write all day long and I never have to put my name on it.
Pete Wright:
Right.
Stacy Recinella:
Everything came from Seth.
Seth Nelson:
Having that type of person in your corner... And this is stuff clients don't see, right? It's not like Stacy calls them up and says, "Hey, I found this, this, and this and look at what we did." We'll send it over and the client will ultimately see the document and see what we found. But having that first person to talk to when things are rough, or if you don't understand what this document is, Stacy can give legal information like, "Hey, this motion was filed. Here's what it is, the meaning. I can't tell you whether it's good or bad or not. I can't give you the analysis, but let me set up a call with Seth. It's already on his desk. He said he was going to review it." That type of stuff really makes a difference.
Pete Wright:
At what point in the process do you get involved, Stacy? Are you involved from the outset meeting the client, or how does that work? When will new clients listening to this meet you?
Stacy Recinella:
Sometimes the very first time that they've come into the office and they've met with Seth and they decide to retain the firm, Seth will bring me in, introduce me. They'll take my card and then the chain of communication is open. If their consultation was over the phone, they may come in about a week later and they'll meet the team too. I think it's very important at NLG that the clients come in and meet everybody that's going to be touching their case. Our clients aren't just numbers here. They're people with families and a future. At the end of the day, they are a member of our extended family. I think it's important that the team meets them pretty close to when they actually come in.
Seth Nelson:
We do that regularly, Pete. If they're here and they decide to retain us, I'll just walk by the... If I'm on a case, it's going to have an associate attorney assigned. It's going to have a paralegal assigned to the case. I'll walk back and I'll say, "Hey, Stace, do you have time to meet a new client that's just starting?"
Pete Wright:
She's smiling because I think the answer is probably not, but I'll do it anyway.
Seth Nelson:
Right. That's exactly right. But she will stop what she's doing in the middle of whatever she is, stop her clock on that other client. Now, if we're getting something filed and we're getting for trial, she might say no. I always tell the client I got to see what they're doing. But then to come out and just have that three to five minute interaction to say, "I'm here for you. Here's the deal. Here's my card if you need anything," it makes such a different impact in the client experience. With COVID and with Zoom and phone calls coming in, sometimes it's not as smoothly as we want, but we're working on systems to improve that just to make sure that everyone knows who does what and how to help them.
Pete Wright:
On the back end, Stacy, how long do you keep in touch with clients you mentioned from a relationship basis? How long are you calling them afterwards to check in?
Stacy Recinella:
Once the case is over, there are some clients that I am still connected to on LinkedIn. More along the lines of professional connection. But sometimes I would run into them at church after everything was over. It really depends on the client. I guess if they ever reached out or needed anything, obviously that connection is already there. But there are some that I'll see around town or like I said, even at church with my kids on a Sunday when they were little. They're now almost all grown up now.
Pete Wright:
At the firm, what is the distribution of paralegals to attorneys when you look at how many cases you might be working on at any given time? Do cases shift from paralegal to paralegal, or are you pretty much one for the duration?
Stacy Recinella:
There are two paralegals and we have four attorneys. The cases are assigned by type of cases, by clients, sometimes by workload. It really kind of depends. A lot of that is personality based or the types of cases.
Seth Nelson:
What we do, Pete, which is different than a lot of firms, Stacy isn't assigned to all of my cases. We like to take the collective group of people that we have. Stacy is actually working with all four lawyers on their separate cases, but then we also have Kevin who works with all four lawyers on the separate cases. Because that way we don't get siloed and create divisions within the firm like, "Oh, that's my paralegal. She can't help you." We're a team here. And then Stacy might say, "Hey, Kaylee does this on her cases, Seth, which you don't." I'll be like, "Oh my god, I didn't know she was doing that.
That's a really good idea. I never really thought of it that way." We get the collective betterment, the best practices from everybody. And then it also helps us, and Stacy has a very long list, I asked her inconsistency of what lawyers do and let's pick the best one. She's like. "Seth, that's the only thing I would do all day is write that down." But that's a way for us to funnel it and then pick the best practice. Sometimes, like we said before, it's style over substance. Well, let's just pick one style because why are we going to have the paralegals have to adjust their style for four different lawyers? That's just not efficient.
That's how we've been able to set up our practice to help what we think is a better ultimate client experience and better work product for the client than how other firms do it.
Pete Wright:
Well, I listen to that as an outsider and I think that also crushes a bit of the reputation of attorneys as egoic, as holier than now. Everything is my way or the highway sort of a thing. I think that is a really great sign. Stacy said early on. When clients come in, we're welcoming them to the family. We want them to know everybody and know that we're all working together to do this. That's a great testament to that desire.
Seth Nelson:
Along with that, maybe Stacy just had an issue in Paul's case and it's an issue that I haven't dealt with in four years. I'm like, "Yeah, I had that a long time ago, but I don't really remember," and I have to brush it off. And Stacy's like, "I just did that for Paul." I'm like, awesome.
Pete Wright:
Let's do it again.
Seth Nelson:
Exactly. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Pete Wright:
Right, right. What are we missing? Anything we're missing about your work, your job, your life that you really want to get in under the wire as we wrap up?
Seth Nelson:
Do you want me to get off the show and you can talk about how great I am, Stace?
Pete Wright:
Well, I feel like that's the only way we're going to get the truth.
Stacy Recinella:
And get the truth. We really don't do anything. No, I'm kidding. If we're gone, nothing gets done.
Pete Wright:
Right, right.
Seth Nelson:
It's true.
Stacy Recinella:
No, but I would say, I guess just as far as somebody's coming in, they've never had to hire an attorney, they've never had any experience on how a firm is set up and how it works, really a paralegal is there to help everybody stay on track and stay on schedule and answer questions. It's to support a client, whether it's listening to what's going on, talking them off a ledge. Sometimes it's their family and it's your kids and your finances and having something happen can be quite scary.
Talking to me, that's another part of my job is to listen and figure out what the bigger issue is, and then taking that issue and saying to the attorney, "Look, this client called. This is the issue. You need to give them a call back." And that way I can water it down so that... If something's important and needs to be addressed right away, that's something that a paralegal can also help with for a client. It's more of just being able to facilitate that information and streamline it so what needs to be addressed gets addressed and it gets addressed as fast as it can.
Seth Nelson:
Look, Stacy comes into my office or maybe I'm coming back from court or coming out the podcast and she says, "This client needs to talk to you." Okay, what's going on? Boom, boom, boom, gives me the rundown. Stacy might have been on the phone with that client for 15 minutes, but Stacy's going to be able to tell me that in about 30 seconds to a minute, right?
Stacy Recinella:
Yes. I have my very own fast pass for Seth's office.
Seth Nelson:
You think we're joking.
Stacy Recinella:
I do. I have it on my desk. I get to my fast pass.
Seth Nelson:
We have it outside my office. It's six feet apart, because we're still careful with COVID. We got the little dots leading to my office.
Pete Wright:
Little feet.
Stacy Recinella:
I said I needed my fast pass now that I'm in Florida. I need more.
Pete Wright:
Right. Well, this is a treat. I think the bottom line, if you're listening to this and you're thinking about gearing up for your own divorce process, first, we're sorry, it's hard, but the paralegal is going to be your best friend and help by fostering that relationship. Pretty much if it's Stacy, do what she tells you when she tells you to do it. Everything's going to be fine. It's what the attorneys do.
Seth Nelson:
Exactly what I was thinking, Pete.
Pete Wright:
Thank you so much, Stacy, for coming on and teaching us and teaching me for sure a little bit more about what you do. We so, so appreciate it.
Seth Nelson:
All right, now, Stace, don't we have three things to follow up before the end of the day? What are you doing wasting your time on this show?
Stacy Recinella:
I don't know. I have a subpoena out right now that's supposed to be served in the next 45 minutes.
Pete Wright:
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I feel like Stacy just sits there with like...
Stacy Recinella:
I'm about to ruin somebody's weekend. And I'm laughing. Why is that funny? That's not funny.
Pete Wright:
That's not funny. Well, thank you so much. Seth, as always, you work with good people. You've set with the bar yourself and you raise it with every person in your firm. We sure appreciate being a part of your lives. Thank you, everybody. Don't forget, if you have a question, head over to howtosplitatoaster.com. There's a button right there. You can just ask a question and you'll get your divorce questions answered right here on the show. Thank you, everybody. We appreciate your time and attention.
On behalf of Stacy Recinella, the best paralegal, America's favorite paralegal, and Seth Nelson, America's favorite divorce attorney, I'm Pete Wright. We'll catch you back here next week on How to Split a Toaster, a divorce podcast about saving your relationships.
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Seth Nelson is an attorney with NLG Divorce and Family Law with offices in Tampa, Florida. While we may be discussing family law topics, How to Split a Toaster is not intended to, nor is it providing legal advice. Every situation is different. If you have specific questions regarding your situation, please seek your own legal counsel with an attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction. Pete Wright is not an attorney or employee of NLG Divorce and Family Law. Seth Nelson is licensed to practice law in Florida.
