We charge for the first hour and we tell you the figure before you sit down, because an hour that costs nothing is an hour nobody prepares for. Bring the papers, bring the dates, and leave with a written note of what we think and what it will cost to do it.
If the answer is that you do not need a lawyer, that is what the note will say. Roughly a third of the people who come to see us are sent away with two paragraphs and an invoice for one hour, and most of them come back with the work that does need doing.
