SERVICES AND DELIVERY SUMMARISED:-
MrRigorous.pro professional joined-up intellectual services include consulting, counselling, rescue, protection, investigating, examining, analysing, clarifying, strategising, drafting, troubleshooting, legal information, legal facts, general and technical facts, legal opinions, hands-on help, etc. on the full range of general, financial, technical and legal situations
As your professional business and personal problem-solver, I will cut through the most intricate and complex issues for you. There are not many tricky problems I haven't seen and will not be able to assist with within my areas of competence. You have not seen down-to-earth until you have seen me in action
You get under one roof decades of barristerial knowledge and experience, plus a lifetime of problem-solving, plus wide-ranging, down-to-earth, practical, out-of-the-box clear thinking and a preference for quick decisive action — plus, in the case of any problems with lawyers, a detestation of dud deadbeat dishonest lawyers
Anyone can benefit
If I can deliver the solution quickly and easily, it's probably free.
Documents: we work using end-to-end-encrypted email; Word (and your own choice of word processor; TextEdit, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are not recommended); OCRed PDFs, and appropriate cloud repositories such as Dropbox.
PROTECTION: Think of me as:-
somewhere between going it alone on the one hand and, on the other, hiring a lawyer you don't like, don't want, don't need and can't afford for want of anyone else to talk to
a layer of protection, insulation, supervision and scrutiny if you do happen to genuinely need to hire other professionals.
The three traditional ways are not ideal: When needing someone to talk to about situations and problems, we tend to:-
tough it out in isolation or
share it with people who are not helpful (a problem shared can be a problem aggravated) or
throw ourselves at a tenth-rate dishonest incompetent comatose nuisance of a practising lawyer.
What else to do? Where else to go?
Enter MrRigorous.pro: MrRigorous.pro dramatically changes the situation. I know from personal and professional experience what's it's like to need comfort, support, sincerity and loyalty, and sensible, proactively intelligent help.
I meet an obvious, urgent, long unfilled need. Forget all you know about the miserable three ways above. I save you from having to go it alone, and I protect you from lawyers. I will rescue you if you've fallen into the clutches of a rapacious jackass of a lawyer (more about that here).
Now you have an alternative. I'm here, right now, to help you and to sort out your problems. I rigorously address personal and business situations efficiently, pragmatically, economically and realistically without the need for any unnecessary lawyer or any other conventional professional. Folk who know me will tell you that I'm a desperately needed breath of fresh clean air in how I work and what I do.
Here's my thinking: Having the right professional person to talk to as and when you need him is basically unheard of in any culture, ancient or modern. How strange! Where are the boutique sages calmly and sensibly putting their wisdom to good use?
Why, so it seems, am I the only one anywhere? There's no reason why anyone can't set up a professional consulting firm, in direct competition to unnecessary lawyers, to help people. The consultant would not be expected to do, or agree to do, or do, anything properly reserved by local regulation exclusively to a practising lawyer; nor would he represent to anyone that he was a practising lawyer.
That leaves wide scope for a legitimate, substantial, respectable practice, perfect for a retired lawyer of the right type, to include:-
consulting, advice, assistance, guidance, strategising, planning, modelling, problem-solving, etc. on a limitless range of financial, legal, practical and other situations, both personal and business
formal opinions on any subject. Per the natural and juridical laws of free speech, everyone is free to form and express an opinion about anything
MrRigorous.pro's prevention, protection, supervision and other services, summarised here.
Who can MrRigorous.pro help? Customers range from regular folks to sophisticated millionaires wary and weary of being bored and exploited by practising lawyers and now looking for a different style of professional assistance. It sounds right and it sounds good. I consider MrRigorous.pro to be a new profession. I'm happy to inaugurate and pioneer it.
I'm celebrating MrRigorous.pro's successful first year: innovative problem-solving and faithfully kept website promises:-
MrRigorous.pro FOR FREE: some MrRigorous.pro patrons have kindly brought me a variety of important problems that I've been able to despatch for free because they were relatively small and I could handle them quickly and easily:-
QUICK EASY: I've quickly and easily grasped the issues, cut through the problem and delivered a conclusive decisive solution: Zoom discussion, some emails, counselling and some technical drafting. What may have been eating into folks for weeks or months has just gone away
FUSS-FREE: I've done it without the fuss, burden or expense of involving a lawyer (by whom I usually mean a practising lawyer). With MrRigorous.pro, there's no initial signing up, no registering, no form, no other formality (on one or two occasions I didn't even know the name of the person I was helping) and no nonsense
GRATIS: I've done the quick easy stuff without charging. This has embarrassed some highly satisfied MrRigorous.pro patrons astonished at the speed and quality of the service. If I can solve problems quickly and easily — say in a few calls and a few emails — I see no reason to charge for it. If you prefer, I'd be happy to suggest a minimal fee
CORE: quickly and easily solving a straightforward problem as above is a core MrRigorous.pro service
ABUSE: some folks who have received substantial value from the MrRigorous.pro free service have not bothered to say 'thank you' or give me any feedback. Not good.
MrRigorous.pro FOR HIRE: some MrRigorous.pro patrons have brought me problems requiring close and continuing professional attention over a period:-
SIGNED UP: I'm now fully signed up at a mutually agreeable one-off fee — a fraction of what a conventional practising lawyer would charge. I'm on indefinite call until everything has been dealt with comprehensively
CORE: applying myself intensively to protracted situations — always quicker, cheaper and more congenially than any unnecessary lawyer — is a core MrRigorous.pro service.
To take three random examples:-
acquiring something: you're thinking of buying, leasing, hiring, receiving something of value. I'll do deep due diligence on relevant things and people; arrange and coordinate inspections, authentications, examinations, evaluations, valuations, insurance (brokers, insurers, claims handlers), transport, delivery, examination, receipt, after-sales recourse, documentation, etc. (I never handle any transaction money)
transferring something: you're thinking of selling, leasing, licensing, lending, donating, gifting something of value. I'll assist on the whole process on the lines of the above
'Do I really need a lawyer?' Here you find yourself in an intricate situation where you think, suppose or assume that you might want or need a lawyer. Not so fast!
Unless you're fully and firmly in control of that — presumably serious, technical — situation comprehensively from the outset, you are putting yourself, your affairs and your wallet at multiple risk most reprehensibly.
It will not do to strut around looking for a lawyer and expect, invite, permit or hire him to dictate to you what you want or ordain for you what you need. Before you throw yourself at a lawyer, you simply must master your own situation for yourself. You must do the dictating.
Such mastery, which must at all times be on a continuing real-time basis, requires detailed data-dependent analyses, examinations, assessments, simulations, timelines, flowcharts, costings, gross valuing and net valuing per issue and overall. Then you can rationally assess and determine exactly who and what you do and don't want and need, and draft the detailed technical job description.
If you don't dominate your own situation on these lines, you are at risk of being eaten alive on all sides, and rightly so.
This business of taking the trouble to fully grasp your own case, hopelessly neglected, misunderstood and mismanaged, is a big deal. I have a book on it in the works: Get A Grip — A Primer on Customer-Lawyer Interaction. I
t takes you through the whole process from your initial egomanic fantasy of hiring a lawyer and sensibly, rationally analysing your own situation — the very first step — all the way from scoping for the right lawyer to hiring to instructing to finishing with the lawyer and probably slamming the door in his face when you've fallen out because he has messed up and behaved dishonestly (check out another book in preparation, Lawyer Rackets — How Your Own Crooked Lawyer Will Screw You If He Can).
You don't have to do any of this on your own. Consider retaining a neutral, independent, loyal, detached, retired-lawyer problem-solver like MrRigorous.pro to help you with every general and technical step, including that essential repeated step back to assess the whole thing in perspective.
Some thinking on two hypothetical examples:-
AN ART TRANSACTION: Let's say you want to privately buy an outstanding painting you have set your heart on — maybe of a rainy evening in Paris by Edouard Cortès (1882-1969), or a Renoir (1841-1919).
Art, like other precious objects, can be a dangerous proposition and must be approached cautiously.
Provenance cannot be vouchsafed just because your seller bought it at an allegedly reputable auction house: the seller at that auction might have stolen the picture and then consigned it to a 'darling' luvvie on the take at the auctioneer.
Before you commit yourself to buying or not buying anything, you bring me in to provide a Mr Rigorous.pro package. I'm going to do deep due diligence on everything to do with this picture and on the relevant financial and other circumstances of a relevant number of generations of sellers, such as (to take a few examples):-
is it authentic
was the previously used art expert authentic or was he another phony on the take
let's now find the best appraisers who have written books about the artist and are used by the best galleries and the toniest collectors
forget about value, let's investigate prices, especially if it's a private sale
why is the seller selling
why is the proposed sale private
is it worth you exploring buying, and then buying, title or other insurance before you buy
let's find the best possible broker and the best policy from the most appropriate insurer
let's investigate the broker's record, the insurer's claims handling and claims paying record etc.
let's put a few sensible precautions in place in case the seller turns out to be a fraud and the picture is problematic
let's find insurance for your custody of the picture
let's find some classy wallpaper and picture lights
let's get the picture copied and put the original in the safe, etc etc.
Every penny, every detail of the exercise is managed minutely. You know everything in real time.
AN INHERITANCE SITUATION: Let's say you're an heir of a fondly remembered friend now dead. One of your co-heirs is a rogue — your dead friend's business colleague — in league with the executor. The executor is a piously corrupt lawyer criminal who has infiltrated the estate by concealing her criminal past and lying about her competence, expertise, experience and intentions.
An executor of this estate is under a duty to expertly conduct and conclude all the testator's unfinished front-office business, which includes pursuing the rogue co-heir for massive theft of your dead friend's assets and cash, and only you know about all that
Being idiopathically criminal, and in a criminal conspiracy with the rogue, naturally she does all she can to exclude, discard and discredit you as her sole source of information against the rogue co-heir (who revealed himself to the executor early on by agreeing to give her a cut of the estate if she would look the other way, which pleased her immensely because she's already a pristine criminal sociopath)
Let's say all this is set in a jurisdiction where litigation against a criminal executor and a criminal co-heir is prohibitively expensive and surreally speculative, where judges are corrupt, where court rules positively invite criminal applications to the court, and where the court is more likely to side with a deadbeat executor shyster who happens to be a lawyer than with an anxious uniquely informed innocent lay heir (and your own calamitous lawyers)
Before you do anything, you bring me in to provide a Mr Rigorous.pro package. I'm going to go to town on everyone and everything
I'll be looking into and digging up stuff about every mortal detail of the entire affair, with a view to exposing and pursuing the rogue and the executor, and recovering the stolen assets, and setting things right. This might involve a number of steps and stages.
I'll handle the whole thing for you, including the most intrusive inquiry into the background and foreground of lawyers who might or might not be suitable to handle specific particular legal points for you. Every penny, every detail of the exercise is managed minutely. You know everything in real time.
For example (at the risk of repetition):-
deep due diligence: say you have rationally formed the rational conviction that you simply must hire a lawyer (you might be right, or not). You might come a cropper even on a relatively simple legal situation: lawyers are not what they used to be (if they ever were). Or you seek a decent accountant, financial planner or asset manager.
Or you're thinking of buying — investing in — something apparently genuine that seems to you to apparently be of real net value. You might have heard of due diligence. I doubt you have come across Mr Rigorous's deep due diligence. (I will give you data, tools and techniques to help you make genuinely informed decisions, including in relation to what we know we don't know, and then it's up to you: I will never make decisions for you, recommend any service provider or transaction, or concur in your decision to hire anyone or transact anything.)
investigations: say you have an ongoing situation of some kind, and want to get to the bottom of what's really going on, wherever in the world (with some obvious exceptions). If within my capabilities, I can handle that
reports: give me the data, and I'll deconstruct, reconstruct, examine, analyse, evaluate and value any situation of any kind within my capabilities. I will deliver periodic and final reports, and work with and make presentations to lawyers, accountants, auditors, private investigators, law enforcement, judges etc
monitoring: any relationship, any situation, any problem, any affairs or state of affairs: if it's within my range, I'll keep a watchful eye on it for you
translating, decoding, deciphering: we've all been subjected to gudda, jargon and gibberish from idiot lawyers who cannot or will not express themselves clearly. Often their nonsense is deliberate, to conceal ignorance, incompetence, dysfunction and criminality. I can help you cut to the chase. I absolutely will not tolerate any nonsense from any lawyer in relation to anything.
regular reviews: we can convene periodically — say, once a month — and chew over every atom of your relevant business for good order, including the activities (and billing) of service providers such as lawyers, accountants, fund managers etc.
intermediary: talking and making detailed presentations to individuals (eg lawyers, creditors, debtors, family members) or groups (eg family, heirs) with whom you (for whatever reason) would rather not or cannot deal directly; expounding, advocating and negotiating points on your behalf; eliciting their positions, situations and concerns.
This might sometimes amount to informal conciliation, reconciliation or mediation in relation to problems more human than legal. (I'm no accredited mediator. It would just be calm, approachable, rational, tactful no-nonsense MrRigorous.pro at work on your behalf.) As anyone who knows me will tell you, I know how to talk — generally and technically — to receptive people of diverse types. As the case requires, I can be charming, and I can be robust.