First consultations, with our firm, with me personally are always free.
You want to make sure when an attorney advertises that the initial consultation to be free, you want to get the details. Many attorneys consider the phone call, when you are calling them, to be the initial consultation.
"Hi, my name is so and so, I have a
felony or misdemeanor"
"Well, why don't you come in, we'll have a meeting."
They consider that to be the initial consultation. In our office, I meet with you personally. I want to get a feel for you, and I want you to get a feel for me, and that can only be done face to face.
That consultation with me, with
the lawyer, not with any of my other staff members, that's always free. There's no charge. The purpose of that consultation is so that we can go over not only the details and the facts of the case, but what your goals are. We prepare the case as if we are going to trial, and I can only do that by asking certain questions, and that starts with the initial consultation.
Some lawyers don't like to get that detailed, because they wait and say, "Well, I'm only going to spend that much time if I get hired, and then I'll put the time into it." But again, that's not the right way to go, and when you come and meet with us, and we have that initial consultation, it's not only free for you, but it's very factually important for us. I need to know what happened in the case, but what you want to do, what your family wants to do, what your wife or husband wants to do, what your employment needs to do to resolve the case.
So, that initial consultation is more than just a free opportunity for you and I to speak, but it's also an opportunity for me to outline in my mind how we're going to attack this case, and then I can relay to you what my goals are for this case, what your goals are, and how we're going to work together to achieve those goals.
That's what happens at this first free initial consultation.