The Initial Consultation

lasts 30-60 minutes, incurs a flat fee of $250, and is held over Zoom by default (in-person by request).

Our firm begins every relationship with a new (or returning) client with an initial consultation. The attorney will use this time to get to know you, learn more about your situation, and your goals moving forward. This is a crucial step in whatever legal journey one is looking to undertake. Finding an attorney that you trust and mesh well with is an important part of ensuring you come out the other end of your proceedings with the best possible outcome for you (and your family).

The meeting will include only you, as one “party”, since ethical guidelines mean an attorney can only give legal advice to one person in a matter. 

Below, you will find the steps to getting scheduled with our firm.

Reach out to us!

To begin working with our firm, and one of our attorneys, you can reach out to us by submitting a Contact form, emailing us at info@seattledivorceservices.com, or calling our office at (206)784-3049.

Next, we gather some personal information and basic details about your situation.

This will include legal names of both parties, whether there are children involved in the matter, what Washington county you reside in, and specific questions you may have for the attorney.

Prospective clients may be hesitant to provide our office with the other party’s personal information for a variety of reasons, but rest assured that entering such information into our secure contacts system never notifies the individual and is a necessary part of the legal intake process. We run conflicts checks using such information to ensure we are not interacting with both parties and/or have not assisted any party in the past.

Now, we can confer with our team and, hopefully, we will have an attorney able to meet with you. If so, we will send you their next available times to do so.

Our team will take the necessary time to survey our attorneys’ availability before reaching back out to you with a list of proposed meeting times.

In some cases, we may not have an attorney with bandwidth or the specific experience which they believe is necessary to properly manage your case. In which case, we will inform you that we do not have an attorney available for you to meet with.

Once your consultation date/time is solidified, you will be sent a confirmation/intake email.

The confirmation email will include three links: 

 1. An intake form with which you can enter your and the other party’s personal information, as well as upload any documents which you believe would be helpful for the attorney to reference*.

2. Our secure payment portal where you can submit the flat fee using a credit/debit card or e-check. Our name will show up on billing statements as ‘Seattle Divorce Services’ or ‘Skookum Law Group’. If you have any sensitivities regarding that fact, you are welcome to ask for instructions on how to drop off payment in-person (check or cash).

3. The Zoom meeting link to join at the time of your appointment (or instructions on how to access our office).

*This is not the same as the attorney performing a document review. Documents are only used as reference during the consultation since the primary point of the meeting is to get to know one another. Formal document review only begins once the attorney is hired.