At the first meeting, your employment lawyer should be able to tell you whether your claim is likely to be successful.  They should also be able to advise you on the likely outcome.  And if they don’t willingly provide this information, you should insist that they do, or consider using the services of a different employment lawyer.

Your employment lawyer should update you at major points throughout the case.  He should advise you on what options are available to you next, to help you make an informed decision.  Your employment lawyer should never make an important decision without you.

And you should not make an important decision, without consulting your employment lawyer first.  It would be a waste of money to do so, and it could also jeopardize your case.

Although it is important to be kept up to date on the most important issues, be wary of employment lawyers who call you to update you on minor points.  Too much communication with your employment lawyer will rapidly increase your legal bill.

Finally, it is important that you work with your employment lawyer.  Time is money, and there are many tasks that you can do to assist your employment law specialist, to reduce your legal costs.

This can involve doing simple things yourself, to save your employment lawyer time.  For example, make a list of any related events that happened, leading up to your employment claim, and give the list to your employment lawyer.  Sort all related letters and emails into date order (earliest first), put them in a file, and give it to your employment lawyer.