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As a popular area, there are many new families and people living in the Mackay region that need to choose a Mackay lawyer*, solicitor or law firm for the first time. Choosing a lawyer to do the conveyancing to help you purchase a house, to advise you about starting a business or to prepare legal documents like wills or enduring powers-of-attorney, can be a intimidating and worrying process.

If you are looking for a Mackay solicitor, lawyer or law firm you ought to consider looking for these characteristics:

Happy Customers
For most individuals it’s impossible to compare the quality of legal services provided by one Mackay solicitor/lawyer or another. Unless you are a regular user of a similar type of legal service you can’t really compare various law firms. What you can do is look for a Mackay lawyer who is proud of their past performance provides several testimonials from previous or existing clients. If they provide quite a number of testimonials it tells you two things. First, that they have plenty of happy clients and secondly, that they are willing to take the time and trouble to find out what clients think of their service. They are aware that they are a service-oriented business.

Local Knowledge
Your Mackay solicitor or lawyer should have good local knowledge and demonstrated experience in helping other people in the town. Find out if the firm has worked on major local developments or firms with established conveyancing specialists who will have garnered a valuable source of “inside knowledge” about the property market, local agents and banks which can make all the difference to the way your transaction will be dealt with.

Breadth of Services
While most people only need a lawyer occasionally, it is wise to choose a Mackay lawyer, solicitor or law firm that can provide a full range of services without you needing to find additional providers. Finding a firm that can provide conveyancing, estate planning, disputes, business services and even workplace or employment issues, means you can be confident that one firm which will meet all your legal needs. Law firms value clients that use a range of services, and will often provide services more cheaply if they have provided other services for you in the past.

*In Queensland a person with legal qualifications was traditionally referred to as a solicitor while a person who “had standing” to represent you in court was called a barrister. More recently the general term lawyer has become more widespread and can be used to describe either of these types of legal practitioner. In some other states of Australia the conveyancing process (the legal process required to transfer ownership of house) can be undertaken by licenced conveyancers. This is not the case in Queensland where conveyancing must be undertaken by a solicitor/lawyer.

John Gray is a practising solicitor and marketing consultant who has worked with leading Mackay law firms. If you need a Mackay solicitor or Mackay lawyer contact John Gray for a recommendation.