Use of Lawyers
Use of Lawyers, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005
Tables
36 questions. Select a question to see its response table. marks a Top 100 question.
- How much trust and confidence do you have in lawyers and the legal profession?
- In the last year, did you seek legal advice or consult with a lawyer about any matter involving your business?Top 100 question
- About how many times?
- In the last year, how much did your business pay for legal expenses, including filing fees and associated costs?
- Were those expenses unusually high, unusually low or about normal for a typical year?
- Have you used a lawyer in the last three years?Top 100 question
- Do you have an on-going relationship with a law firm or individual lawyer such that you consider the firm or individual to be “your lawyer"?
- Is your lawyer a firm or an individual?
- Have you changed the principal lawyer or law firm that you do business with in the last three years?
- What was the most important reason you changed?
- Was the general topic of the consultation:?
- Who prepared your business’s most recent tax return? Was it an accountant, a lawyer, or someone else?
- In the last year, did a lawyer prepare any legal documents, other than a tax return, for your business?
- (document prepared) A contract.
- (document prepared) An incorporation document.
- (document prepared) Will or estate planning document.
- (document prepared) Paperwork for an administrative hearing.
- (document prepared) Filed a suit or responded to a suit or potential suit.
- (document prepared) A letter.
- (document prepared) A written consumer credit policy.
- (document prepared) A written employment policy.
- In the last three years, have you used a lawyer to assist you in a legal dispute involving your business?Top 100 question
- About how many different business disputes occurred over the last three years for which you used a lawyer?
- How long was it between the time you contacted a lawyer about the matter and its settlement?
- Was the matter settled in-court, informally out-of-court, or through formal arbitration or mediation of some type?
- Did insurance or an insurance company play an important role in the decision to pursue an out-of-court settlement/arbitrated or mediated settlement?
- What was the general topic of the dispute?
- (other party in dispute) Customer(s).
- (other party in dispute) Supplier(s).
- (other party in dispute) Employee(s).
- (other party in dispute) Government.
- (other party in dispute) Competitor(s).
- Please estimate the unreimbursed legal expenses for the dispute between the time you first contacted a lawyer about it and its eventual settlement?
- Was your lawyer paid with an hourly fee, a retainer, a flat fee, or a contingency fee?
- Aside from legal expenses, did money or something else of monetary value exchange hands between participants as a result of the dispute?
- How satisfied were you with the dispute’s outcome? Were you:?
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Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005
ISSN 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation
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