Use of Lawyers
» Use of Lawyers, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005
If respondent has on-going relationship with lawyer AND changed principal lawyer or law firm within the last three years.
3b1. What was the most important reason you changed?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legal competence | 21 | ||
| 2 | Cost | 6 | ||
| 3 | Availability | 12 | ||
| 4 | Legal approach | 6 | ||
| 5 | Needed greater expertise in an area | 33 | ||
| 6 | Attorney died, moved away, retired | 9 | ||
| 7 | (Other) | 12 | ||
| 8 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 75 | |||
Notes: Thirty-three (33) percent of small employers (employing between 4 and 250 people) who have an on-going relationship with a lawyer and changed principal lawyer or law firm in the last three years cite a need for greater expertise in an area as the principal reason for the change (Q#3b1).
