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Is there anything I can do to prepare for the first meeting with you, and what happens during this meeting?
Is there anything I can do to prepare for the first meeting with you, and what happens during this meeting?
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before the first meeting there’s an
intake call that the client will have
with my executive assistant who will run
through the basic facts she will tell
you what to bring to that initial
meeting based on your specific case and
then in preparation for the meeting the
best thing that a client can do is put
together a timeline a timeline of their
case and and perhaps the is a divorce so
timeline of your marriage perhaps
starting when you met your spouse then
when you got married children
significant events moves changes of jobs
traumatic events um Affairs that may
have occurred you know the things that
tell the story of your marriage and it’s
important to put it in that framework
because then you see sort of where the
holes might be and it helps me fill in
the blanks and really understand what
has happened and what’s brought you to
this point and so at the meeting I do a
lot of listening to listening to what
has happened what the story is and then
at the end I give the client a plan and
a strategy which may or may not involve
hiring my firm maybe it’s not the right
time to hire a lawyer maybe they need to
do something first before that uh or
maybe they need a different kind of
professional in any event we come up
with a strategy that helps them take
their next step whatever that step is
and if I think they’re a good fit I’ll
give them a retainer agreement but I
never have a have a client sign a
retainer agreement at an initial
consultation I think it’s really
important that they take the information
they kind of process digest and then
make a decision about how to move
forward and consult runs roughly 1 to
Rockville, MD family law attorney Stuart Skok talks about what you can do to prepare for the first meeting with her, and what happens during this meeting.
