Interviewing New Clients for Facts
When meeting a client for the first time, I tell my younger colleagues they need to be mindful that a new client almost always tells us only the favourable aspects of their case. They will leave out the awkward or unfavourable aspects of their case. It doesn’t matter what the dispute is – civil, criminal, estate inheritance, family, industrial – a new client always starts with their best foot forward. When I was younger, I …