TIP 7 Agendas and To-Do Lists
It produces a very clear direction, together with approval of the inherent costs of that decision.
TIP 12 Be Careful About What the Client Says
Never expect your customer as to how title to property is held. There can be instances or, your customer's claim may influence. It is totally astonishing customers are incorrect about who owns what.
TIP 13 Homework for Your Customer
Some other homework for the client might include going through the matrimonial house to inventory the contents room by room, categorizing each item by supply, price and approximate market value.
TIP 6 Mutual Consultation
Like the tip above on being private, another strategy to exclusivity would be to make it apparent in the first interview with a potential family law client that it is a mutual consultation. That is, the customer is consulting you and you are consulting with with the customer to be able to find out whether the both of you are a match. This makes it more easy to say. One of the wonderful frustrations in household law is acting for clients. Most conflict cases involve people with personality disorders. They make practicing dramatically more difficult than it must be and may be the ruin of your own life. You need to make it clear on a first consultation that the purpose of the interview is to determine whether there's a fit between the lawyer and the client and that there's to be no obligation on each side to either retain the lawyer or take a retainer. Accordingly, it seems that when it becomes clear from the first interview that there are a number of reasons why you shouldn't take the case, you need to learn to say "no" at the very earliest possible phase.
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