Frequently Asked Questions

Initial consultations are short, focused conversations about your situation and whether this firm is the right fit. Call or submit the contact form and the fee, if any, for your matter type will be quoted before anything is scheduled.

It depends on the matter. Personal injury is handled on a contingency fee — no fee unless there is a recovery. Estate planning, business formation, and many criminal matters are commonly flat-fee. Litigation and family law are usually hourly against a retainer. Every engagement is documented in a written agreement that states the fee structure before work begins.

Yes. The firm appears throughout Utah's district and justice courts, and remote appearances have made distance far less of an obstacle than it once was.

Call rather than emailing. Short-fuse matters — eviction summonses, DUI license hearings, protective orders, statute of limitations dates, and IEP timelines — are triaged by phone.

Current clients get a secure portal at myesqslaw.com where they can review case status, exchange documents with the firm, message their attorney, and handle billing. Access is provided once an engagement agreement is signed.

No. An attorney-client relationship is formed only when a written engagement agreement is signed by both you and the firm. Until then, please do not send confidential or time-sensitive information through the contact form or by email.

Anything with a date or a signature on it. Court papers, notices, leases, contracts, the police report, the denial letter, the current IEP — whatever the dispute is about. A rough timeline of events in your own words is more useful than most people expect.

In many matters, yes. Payment arrangements are discussed as part of the fee conversation before an engagement begins, not after.