Consulting pitches are built to be convincing. Five checks, and the documents behind them, that separate a firm that can do the work from one that can describe it.
Two lawyers can quote the same contingency percentage and hand you checks that differ by thousands, because the number they multiply is not the same number.
An exclusion is a maintenance instruction written years before the claim. Five things to check in the form your insurer filed, and what each one asks you to do now.
A traffic citation moves faster through the system than it did ten years ago. Here is what to gather before the first consultation so the meeting produces a plan instead of homework.
A first consultation on an abuse claim is usually free, but the preparation still costs you something. Here is what to assemble, what it takes, and what drives the money later.
A first DUI consultation either produces a plan or produces a follow-up appointment. What you bring, and what you have already preserved, decides which.