The 60-Minute Consultation: Real Legal Advice, Not a Sales Call
Most law firms advertise a free consultation. Here is what a free consultation usually is: fifteen minutes with whoever picks up, no advice you can act on, and a pitch to sign a costs agreement. The free part is the sales meeting. The advice starts after you sign.
We run it the other way around. Our initial consultation is a paid, fixed-fee hour with the firm's principal, and the product is the advice itself. Come with your questions - all of them - and leave with answers. Many matters resolve in that hour. If yours needs more, you leave knowing exactly what the further work involves and exactly what it costs, before you commit to anything.
You are not paying to be sold to. You are paying for an hour of a senior lawyer's judgment, with something to show for it.
What You Walk Away With
Legal advice in the session. Not a scoping exercise or a sales pitch. You describe the situation, ask your questions and receive advice from an admitted Australian legal practitioner that you can act on the same day.
A full hour with the senior lawyer. The consultation is with the firm's Legal Practitioner Director - the same lawyer who would run your matter if it goes further. Not a junior, not a business development manager.
Ask anything. One consultation can cover several questions: the contract, the dispute behind it, the employment issue it triggered. Bring all of it. The hour is yours.
Confidential and privileged. The consultation is legal advice from a practising lawyer, so legal professional privilege applies to what you tell us and the advice you receive.
A straight answer on what comes next. Many matters resolve within the hour. If yours needs further work, you leave with a defined scope and a price in writing before you commit to anything. If it doesn't need a lawyer, we tell you that too.
Why a Paid Hour Beats a Free Fifteen Minutes
Nothing in a law firm is free. A firm offering free consultations recovers that cost somewhere, usually in the rates charged to the clients who sign. The free consultation exists to convert you, which is why no advice is given in it: the advice is the thing being sold, so it is held back until you are a client.
Charging for the consultation changes whose hour it is. There is nothing to convert you to, so there is no pitch. We are not auditioning for your matter; we are working on it, from the first minute. If the honest advice is that you do not need a lawyer, or that the claim is not worth pursuing, you get that advice - a free consultation is structurally incapable of telling you that.
It also means the people we sit down with are serious about resolving their problem, which is why the consultation can go deep rather than wide. For how this fits the firm's broader approach to fees - fixed where the scope can be defined, staged where it cannot - see our pricing philosophy.
How It Works
Call to schedule
Our automated intake assistant takes your details and an outline of your matter, confirms the fixed fee and schedules your consultation. Calls are recorded, as disclosed at the start of each call.
Prepare
We confirm the booking and tell you what to have ready: your questions in priority order and the key documents. The better the material, the further the hour goes.
The consultation
Sixty minutes with the Legal Practitioner Director. Advice in the session, and if further work is needed, a written scope and price before you commit to anything.
Who It Suits, Honestly
The consultation is built for business owners, directors and decision-makers with a real question: a dispute brewing, a contract that matters, an employee problem, a regulator's letter, a deal on the table. If that is you, one hour of focused advice is the cheapest legal product you will ever buy.
If you are gathering free quotes, plenty of firms will give you fifteen minutes at no charge, and that may be all you want. And if your matter is a templated document where price is the only criterion, an online provider may serve you better. We would rather tell you that here than in the room.
Frequently Asked Questions
One call to schedule. One hour to get answers.
Call the consultation line and our intake assistant will take your details, confirm the fixed fee and book your hour.