Prepare for a Personal Injury Lawyer Consultation

Build a one-page timeline

  • Incident date, time, location, and people involved
  • Symptoms, treatment dates, providers, and work restrictions
  • Reports, photographs, video, witnesses, and property evidence
  • Insurance contacts, letters, offers, and recorded-statement requests

Flag urgent questions

  • Possible filing or pre-suit notice date
  • Government, professional, employer, product, or property defendant
  • Evidence that may be erased, repaired, discarded, or overwritten
  • Unsigned release, authorization, settlement, or lien document

Compare consultation answers

Ask who will handle the matter, what experience matches the claim, how fees and costs work, what evidence must be preserved, which deadline is most urgent, and whether a conflict or capacity issue prevents representation.

Use the comparison methodology and take notes without sending confidential information to this publication.