First of all, every lawyer has his own way of handling consulting, depending on his personal habits. Coping counseling is a conventional and unconventional war between lawyers and clients. Customers often shop around for consultation, because they are not tied to lawyers before they gain inner conviction, and the binding force between them is very weak. After consulting this lawyer, he can consult another lawyer and ask about several different litigation strategies, and get double or even multiple protection. Some clients even collate scattered lawyer's opinions into complete and reliable lawyer's opinions after many consultations, and finally they can go by themselves. What lawyers can do is to make customers feel good about you after consulting a number of lawyers, and then come back to you.
Several common ways for lawyers to handle legal opinions include:
Free consultation
(It is common for law students, paralegals and interns, and generally does not include old lawyers who have been practicing for many years). Most customers will be merciful and send you a small red envelope from 20 yuan.
Specific types of cases
Inform the parties that the litigation strategy is not something they can do. Generally speaking, they will eventually choose a lawyer to represent them. For example, in the case of expropriation and demolition, this kind of business generally requires a team of lawyers to communicate and negotiate with the government, measurement institutions and village committees. And it can't be done by one lawyer, and it often needs the cooperation of other lawyers or their own team of lawyers. Ordinary villagers often do not have the ability to complete the above tasks because they have not received professional legal training. Even if instructed, he still can't do it in obtaining evidence and preserving evidence. This kind of business is characterized by high learning cost and cross-industry knowledge. Some knowledge is difficult for law school students who have just passed the law exam, let alone ordinary villagers. In cases like intellectual property rights, bankruptcy and reorganization, you can tell the client all the details of legal consultation. The highest level of consultation is undoubtedly to tell the client everything he wants to know, but after the consultation, the client turns around and finds that he still can't do anything and has to entrust a lawyer.
Pay consulting fees according to the difficulty of the case or the amount of the subject matter of the case.
Even this rookie lawyer can't do it. Only a slightly famous big coffee can confidently quote customers. About 800~3000 an hour is a common paid consultation interval. If the client chooses to entrust you later, the general consulting fee will be deducted as the case fee.
If it is decided not to entrust the case, technical support will be provided.
, often because it is not in the region and so on. In this way, we often tell each other the ideas of the case and the points that need to be hit, and charge a certain technical support fee. Need to write documents, apply for information disclosure, and obtain evidence separately. Generally, it is 10%~30% of the commission fee, depending on the difficulty of the case. (generally, this situation is the cooperation between lawyers. )
In order to explore the source of the case, what I do is to distinguish between two situations, one is consultation between lawyers and the other is consultation between non-lawyers.
There is no doubt that the consultation between lawyers is interest-oriented, and only talks about entities, not procedures. It can give you litigation strategy after analyzing all the cases, but how to do the specific procedures, how to collect evidence, how to make government information public, how to write documents, and which department to give them to are all reserved unless it is determined to cooperate, and I will do this part of the work when I cooperate.
The consultation of ordinary customers is often free online or offline. After all, the consulting fee is only a small part of the entrustment fee. Through consultation, we can establish a good relationship with customers and build trust, which is a very important link. When customers depend on you, they will choose to entrust you, which needs to be treated with caution.