Many firms of solicitors will offer at least a half hour free initial consultation, although this may only be via telephone. Finding that firm that offers the services you require is the first step; secondly you need to look at what information you would like to ascertain from them?

Most firms of solicitors will provide potential clients with the facility to call them and take advantage of at least half an hour’s worth of free advice. However, is this helpful? Not as much as you might think. Often this half an hour will be more dedicated to the firm’s assessment of the merits of your case and it is their way of determining whether or not they are willing to take on your case themselves. Solicitors, unfortunately, are all to keen to turn this type of situation into something for their own advantage.

 

With this in mind, it is always far more helpful if you can find a solicitor that will offer you a face-to-face free consultation. Although that being said, you may actually struggle to find such a firm in some areas of the country. You may tend to find that the largest cities and the areas where there is a lot of competition between different firms is your most likely location to find such a service.

 

If you are able to visit the offices yourself, you are usually more likely to be able to decide whether or not you feel the specific firm will be the right choice for you. Meeting the person who will be representing you throughout the proceedings and working with you through this important legal matter is important, so it is done for this reason.

 

If you are only able to secure an over the telephone free consultation, it is important to remember that this is YOUR opportunity to ascertain whether or not you wish to instruct them and not just theirs. Do not let them utilise the full half hour determining whether or not they feel there is potential business there for themselves. If you let them, then they will. Use this time, instead to focus on your situation, after all the free consultation is for your benefit.

 

Of course you will have to set out the merits of the case, but you don’t have to take all day over this. If you are likely to go ahead and instruct them, then move on to finding out what the costs are to you. Ask the firm of solicitors to set out the charges in writing, so that you do not have any nasty surprises later on (as often can happen). Ask the solicitor how they would intend to deal with your case and how much each element is going to cost you.

 

If you do not like the way in which your free consultation has gone, do not be afraid of declining this firm of solicitors’ service. Finding the right solicitor to meet your needs is out there; you just need to find them and I have to say, there are plenty of them.

 

Another very helpful tool in finding a solicitor can be found in accessing databases which contain unbiased reviews of the service previous clients have received. This is invaluable to you, especially when you consider that those firms which offer such poor service have an annoying way of managing to get away with it. Solicitor.info is one such site that will be of definite assistance to you in this regard. You can also access the solicitors directory.


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