<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>My answer would be simple.  I need to see where you may have gone wrong (since you've hit a point where you need to hire me) in your previous research.  To get from A to B I have to take a fresh look at a range of records that you may or may not have looked at.  I'm the professional, you hired me because your  research attempts failed in some way.  Part of what I have to do to get past that 'failure' is to look at what you did, and make sure you didn't misinterpret or overlook some key piece of information.  To accept everything as given would make me your partner in your failed attempt, and since I have the experience and training to bring to bear on the problem, I prefer to evaluate things for myself rather than accept your take on things.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wouldn't actually use the word 'failure', I'd dress the explanation up in pleasant, amiable terms, but the above would be what I meant.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Larry</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=IsraelP@pikholz.org href="mailto:IsraelP@pikholz.org">Israel P</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:14 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [APG Public List] Repeating client's work</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>What do you folks do when - after asking client the three basic questions <BR>what do you know, what do you want to learn and what resources have you <BR>already checked - client then says "Why did you spend two hours on such <BR>and such?  I already looked at that."<BR><BR>She didn't include that resource in answering the third basic question, <BR>so as far as I knew, this was a new investigation.  (Let's ignore that I <BR>might have found something that client herself missed.)<BR><BR>Do you have to tell client in advance exactly what resources you are <BR>planning to investigate?  That can get awfully cumbersome - next thing <BR>she'll want to know exactly how many units of fifteen minutes will be <BR>spent on each resource!<BR><BR>I mean you can hardly just say "Tough luck.  I asked what you had done <BR>yourself and you didn;'t mention this resource."<BR><BR>Israel Pickholtz<BR>Jerusalem<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>