The Road To Becoming A Lawyer

TIP 1 Feel it in Your Gut

When you meet with a client and you believe it in your gut that there's something wrong with this client, listen to your body and do not take on the document. In most cases, your initial instinct will be right. There are loads of other attorneys out there to help that customer.

TIP 6 Mutual Consultation

Similar to the suggestion above on being private, yet another strategy to exclusivity would be to make it clear at the first interview with a potential family law client that it is a mutual consultation. In other words, the client is consulting with you in order to find out whether the both of you're a match and you're consulting with the customer. This makes it significantly simpler to say no if, in the close of the interview, some of the hairs on the back of the neck have gone upward. Among the great stressors in family law is currently behaving for customers that are difficult. Most high conflict cases involve people with personality disorders. They make practicing radically more challenging than it must be and can be the ruin of your life. You want to make it apparent on a first consultation that the objective of the interview is to determine if there is a fit between the attorney and the client and that there's to be no duty on each side to either retain the attorney or accept a retainer. Accordingly, it seems that when it becomes clear from the first interview that there are some reasons why you shouldn't take the situation, you need to learn how to say "no" in the very earliest possible phase.

TIP 9 Basic Information For Clients

Create a record of fundamental information that can be given out to clients at their initial interview. It might also be provided in electronic form.

TIP 17 Soothing Your Clients

As soon as your client has a very difficult problem that's more emotional than legal, consider using the term "That's a really hard problem to solve". For instance, where your client is complaining about another side failing to follow through with access obligations, or the other hand is saying things that are inappropriate about your customer, using this phrase helps clients to move on with the difficulties at hand. Lawyers have reported that the phrase that was simple works.

TIP 22 You Are for Everybody

Try to create your legal clinic match you and your style instead of attempting to change yourself to suit someone else's idea of what family law practice should be. Remain true to your values and principles or attempt and change who you are to accommodate a client. Do not try and be a round peg in a square hole. There are lots of different customers, some and some match don't. There are lawyers who will help the ones that don't belong in your office.