Questions - 1 to 36 of 36
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?
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?
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?
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:?
Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation