What to Bring When Meeting With Your California Eminent Domain Lawyer

The first meeting with an eminent domain lawyer in California is bound to be filled with some apprehension.  You may be concerned about how to proceed with your case, or what the eventual outcome will be.  The best thing you can do is to have a productive first meeting with your attorney.  This will increase the likelihood that your case is a success.  In order to accomplish this, Oliver, Sandifer, & Murphy recommends that you bring the following items to your first meeting:

• Your contact information.  This can include your address and home telephone number, and, additionally, any information that makes it easier to get in touch with you, such as an e-mail address, fax number, or business phone number.  You should also bring contact information for anyone else involved in your eminent domain dispute.  This can include government agencies or officials—or even your neighbors, if they are also parties named in an eminent dispute action.

• Any documentation given to you by the government or its agencies regarding your dispute.  This can include official notices, such as a formal letter that your property is the object of an eminent domain action.  However, it is also important to share with your California eminent domain lawyers any informal verbal communications, such as those that may have occurred between yourself and any government agencies involved in the eminent domain action.

• A list of questions and concerns.  Since this is your first meeting with an eminent domain lawyer in California, Oliver, Sandifer, & Murphy expects that you will have a great many things to ask our firm.  We welcome all of your questions and concerns, and encourage you to write them down beforehand so that we may adequately answer them.

Do not be overly concerned if you forget a particular piece of information, or if you failed to realize ahead of time that you might need it.  However, the general rule is that it is better to bring too much information than too little.  If you bear this in mind, you will be as prepared as possible for your first meeting with the California eminent domain lawyers of Oliver, Sandifer, & Murphy.

Contact our eminent domain lawyers in California

Oliver, Sandifer & Murphy are skilled California eminent domain lawyers who serve clients statewide from offices in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in both eminent domain and California resolution of necessity cases.  You may contact us by calling 888-336-6246 (888-EDomain).