Blog 20: Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

       I am not sure yet who I want to interview, but I was thinking of my mentor’s paralegal, Luz. Luz is a paralegal that deals with personal injury cases.

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. How do you get the best satisfaction of the client your representing?

2. What are the best insurance companies that usually give you the best outcome?

3. What are the insurance companies that are bad to deal with?

4. How do you get through these bad insurance companies?

5. How do you keep track of all the paperwork?

6. How are you able to stay organized with communication with the client, meetings, and due dates along with other cases at the same time?

7. About how many cases do you handle at a time?

8. How long do cases go on for?

9. How are you able to keep in constant contact with the client?

10. How much do you tell the client in the case?

11. How do you bring clients in to the firm?

12. What are ways you know you can trust your client?

13. How do you know if the client is lying?

14. What do you do if you find out your client is lying?

15. How do you establish trust with the client?

16. How do you establish a professional and close relationship with the client?

17. What are the best ways how present a case to get more money out of it?

18. How does a lawyer become known?

19. How can you improve your relationships with insurance companies?

20. What is some other important information that you can add?

Blog 14: Interview 3 Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

 I plan to interview my mentors paralegal Luz. Luz is a paralegal that works in my mentor’s law firm and also works for my mentor.

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview?

I have contacted Luz to schedule an interview and she said she would tell me her availability. It will be sometime within the next two weeks.

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ.

What are the best ways to make sure the client is satisfied?

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

What is the definition of satisfy and how does it relate to the ending result of a case for a client?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ.

What are the steps into informing the client during their case? What do you tell the client and what do you leave out? Is their a way to give out too much information to the client?

Blog 7 - Second Interview Preparation

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work?  If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

My mentor is Cindy Hafif and works at Hafif and Associates. My mentor is an expert Personal Injury Lawyer. She owns her own law firm and has many lawyers that work for.

2. What five questions will you ask them about their background?

·      What did you study in college?

·      How did your education prepare you for becoming an attorney?

·      What made you want to be in the field of Personal Injury Law?

·      How did you start out your career and what was your journey that made you become successful into owning your own law firm?

·      Considering everybody you have met throughout your career, what personal qualities are essential for success?