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| Before Consultation |  It might be a great wasting of your and your possible attorney time if you haven’t considered your meeting and prepared for it. If come to the meeting unprepared you might perhaps spend some money for nothing, as it will take longer for the attorney you retain to understand and start working on your legal case.
The attorney will desire to find out who you are and how to get in touch with you. Check if the attorney knows your:
• Home address
• Work address
• Home phone
• Work phone
• Cell phone and/or pager
• Fax number
• Email address.
A summary of the events which forced you to arrange a lawyer consultation in the chronologic order would help much when you meet with the lawyer for the first time. Don’t forget to add the most significant facts:
• The names of the principal opponents and third parts in your dispute
• Main background events
• The date the controversy or trouble started
• The kind of the controversy (harassment, real estate, small business, divorce)
• Major facts of your controversy. Put down a ‘who, what, where, when and why’ story.
• The present state of affairs of your controversy.
Dates are extremely significant. You have to be precise. The best of all is just to take a calendar and highlight dates of when events started and dates of the most important proceeded events. It’s also necessary to mark down when you were sent any notes or other papers. Take the calendar to your meeting to show the lawyer as a reference.
Collect all of the documents you might receive. For example, don’t forget to take:
• Contracts
• All the letters and messages, comprising emails
• Photos
• Accident statements
• Employment documents, such as an employee manual
• Witness reports.
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