The best way is to simply be yourself. Tell your story. Have some family members present. Have all of your questions ready and feel free to ask or talk about anything you want, remember - you will be working with your personal injury spinal cord lawyer for a long time. There are many lawyers that would advise you to prepare for your first meeting by being ready to explain the particulars of the accident, who was involved, the names and contact of the police officers that investigated the accident, who is been charged, what your role was in the accident etc. In addition, many lawyers will want to spend the first meeting interviewing you in regards to your social, recreational, family and employment life prior to the accident. All of this information is absolutely required and tremendously important, and there is nothing wrong with conducting a first meeting this way. However, we tend to conduct our meetings a bit different. Matt Lalande is a spinal cord injury lawyer in Hamilton who was represented many spinal cord injury victims over the past 20 years. His approach during the first meeting is to have a simple conversation to get the know one another. In the end, trust and likability is all that matters - and you will be working with your spinal cord injury lawyer for quite some time. It’s important that you feel comfortable with one another before getting involved in complicated legal aspects of the case. Matt is also known for advising spinal cord injury victims to meet several lawyers and choose the one you feel most comfortable with. Most if not all of the time, victims end up retaining Lalande Personal injury Lawyers.