What Steps Should Be Taken After the Initial Client Conference

question 6

Essay

What steps should be taken after the initial client conference if
(a) the client decides to hire your firm,
(b)the client is undecided about whether or not to proceed, or
(c)the client declines representation?

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Definitions:

Primacy Effect

The tendency to recall the first items in a sequence more readily than the middle items.

Overall Impression

The sum of thoughts, feelings, or attitudes someone forms about an entity (person, place, or thing) based on comprehensive or general observation.

Self-Serving Bias

The tendency to attribute one’s successes to dispositional causes and one’s failures to situational causes.

Dispositional Attribution

Attributing a behavior to some internal cause, such as a personal trait, motive, or attitude; an internal attribution.