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As a popular town, there are many new residents living in the Mackay region who need to choose a Mackay lawyer or law firm for the first time. Finding a lawyer to complete the legal work to help you purchase a house or building, to give advice about starting a business or to prepare important documents such as wills or enduring powers-of-attorney, can be a intimidating and stressful time.

When you are looking for a Mackay solicitor, lawyer or law firm you ought to consider looking for the following characteristics:

Satisfied Customers
For most people it is impossible to compare the quality of legal services that is provided by one Mackay solicitor/lawyer or another. Unless you are a regular user of a similar type of legal service you won’t really be able to compare different law firms. Look for a Mackay lawyer who is proud of their past performance and offers a number of testimonials from previous clients. If they have quite a number of testimonials it tells you two things. First, that they have numerous happy clients and secondly, that they take the time and go to the trouble to find out what their clients think of their service. They are aware that theirs is a service-oriented business.

Local Knowledge
Your Mackay solicitor or lawyer ought to have good local knowledge and demonstrated experience in assisting others in the city. Look for firms that have worked on local developments or firms with established conveyancing sections that will have garnered a valuable source of “inside knowledge” about the property market, local agents and banks which will make a huge difference to the ease and efficiency of your transaction.

Breadth of services
Because most people only need a lawyer occasionally, it is wise to find a Mackay lawyer, solicitor or law firm that can provide a full range of services without having to find other providers. Finding a firm that can help with conveyancing, estate planning, disputes, business services and even workplace or employment issues, means you can rely on the one firm to meet all your legal requirements. Law firms value clients who use a range of services, and are often able to provide those services more cheaply and efficiently 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.