Six people in ten, drawn solid.
59%
contacted only one attorney before making a hiring decision.
Most people do not shop around. The reason cited most often for moving on was the first attorney being too slow to respond. And 68% of those who said how they first made contact did so by phone.
Most of the time there is no second call.
US Consumer Legal Needs Survey, Thomson Reuters and FindLaw, 2024. A poll of 2,000 US adults with a legal need. Phone figure: Clio, Legal Trends Report, 2019, survey of 2,000 US consumers.