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Client, a ship chandlery on a working harbor, is owed $18,400 for rope, paint and diesel supplied to a fishing boat across two seasons. The boat's owner has stopped answering letters, and Client wants a maritime lien filed against the vessel itself. Attorney has done general commercial work in the port town for 11 years and has yet to file a lien of any kind. "This would be my first," Attorney said at the opening meeting. The filing turns on a single statute and one court form, and the clerk publishes completed samples of both. Attorney spent four days with the statute, the leading practice manual and those samples, then lodged the papers with three months still to run. The vessel has since been repainted and renamed. Is it proper for Attorney to act for Client on the lien?
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