Note: this is another in a series of posts describing things you might want to do once you realize you need a lawyer. This series will wrap up tomorrow.
Make sure you know what it is you are looking for from your lawyer. If you go in asking for everything and anything, you will be surprised how many will: first, promise it to you, and second, charge you through the nose for it. Lawyers make their money, by and large, on volume of work done. If you minimize that volume so that they’re only doing for you what a lawyer must do, and not what you could do or you could find somebody cheaper to do for you, you will be very thankful when it comes time to pay the bill.