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TIP 7 Agendas and To-Do Lists

The lawyer engages the customer in the settlement procedure; and

TIP 20 Be Genuine

The most essential component of lawyering is the ability to contact your clients. Treat them and show your interest in them. Be real. Lawyers who do this are much happier, as are their clients.

TIP 6 Mutual Consultation

Similar to the tip above on being exclusive, another approach to exclusivity is to make it apparent in the first interview with a potential family law client that it's a mutual consultation. In other words, the client is consulting with you in order to find out whether the two of you're a match and you are consulting with the customer. This makes it much more easy to say. One of the wonderful frustrations in household law is acting for clients that are difficult. Most conflict cases involve people. They make practicing radically more challenging than it must be and can be the ruin of your life. You want to make it clear on a first interview that the objective of the interview is to ascertain whether there's a match between the attorney and the client and that there's to be no duty on each side to either retain the attorney or take a retainer. Accordingly, it follows that if it becomes clear in the very first interview that there are a number of reasons why you should not take the case, you have to learn to say "no" in the very earliest possible stage.

TIP 11 Client Financial Disclosure Acknowledgment

Generally speaking, most clients are honest and will disclose all fiscal affairs to their own counsel. But, there's a good deal of information on the internet and in books about the best way best to hide income and assets from spouses or attorneys.