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please TEXT 804.300.9086.

To set an appointment please call

804.935.8549    or    804.549.7240

or you can do it yourself at
“Set Up Appointment” page on this site.

As part of our desire to assist the community and its citizens, we will often provide a free 3 minute initial consultation during our first consultation with you if you are seeking legal representation.  However the decision to grant a free consultation is done on a case by case basis and we reserve the right to inform anyone contacting us that a fee will be charged for the consultation; but if we do this we will tell you in advance that a fee will be charged for the consultation.) ***  If we grant a free consultation it only applies to the first time initial consultation). Please note, however, that after the first 3 minutes of the initial consultation, a fee will be charged. (See our page on Attorney’s Fees for the applicable fee, if it applies. See also that page regarding the special extended free initial consultations rules available for personal injury and products liability civil cases.).   The free legal consultation does not necessarily include an assessment of the possible outcome of your case.  We reserve the right to charge a fee for such case assessments.****  [An assessment is when we give you our educated guess as to how you case might turn out.]

For those desiring free legal services beyond the initial consultation please call Central Virginia Legal Aid at 804.648.1012.  Unfortunately, our creditors and spouses will not allow us to provide free legal services.

[Recommended Option :  Although we do not insist that prospective clients do so, many times it is faster and easier to arrange to speak with us if persons desiring a free initial consultation go to the following page and set up their own first phone appointment. It’s very easy to do and often avoids phone tag and other causes of delay.  In short, folks can set up their own phone appointment by going to this page and following the short simple instructions there.]

Click Here: Set Up Phone Appointment

In order to provide you with the best consultation possible, it is highly recommended that you have all of your relevant information and written documents with you and available for your immediate reference and use when you call us.  (For example, your court papers, contracts, wills, deeds or whatever is relevant to your legal issue or problem.)

While anything you tell us during your initial consultation is subject to attorney-client privilege*(and therefore is a matter that we will keep strictly confidential and private between you and us) please note the following important rule:

VERY IMPORTANT:  We do not represent you as your lawyer (and will not appear in court or otherwise act on your behalf on your behalf ) until we (you and our firm) have signed a written fee agreement wherein we agree to provide legal services for you after the initial consultation.

Please know that all litigation (civil and/or criminal trials) are inherently uncertain in outcome (because they are contested) and nothing we say shall be construed as a guarantee of any particular result in a legal case that will be tried in court.

Please also know that unless we see all relevant documents and review all information (which is usually almost impossible in any short consultation) that the validity of our advice should be considered by you to be subject to change or its validity to be subject to doubt.

Rest assured that if you decide to hire us and/or you become our client that we care about you, we care about your case and we always earnestly strive to provide trustworthy and effective legal representation at fair and reasonable legal fee rates.

In any event, THANKS for contacting us and best of luck in your legal case.

David D. Lentz,  Attorney

*** We reserve the right to terminate any free consultation at any time if we do not feel competent to address the prospective client’s questions or for any other reason we deem appropriate.

**** All contested matters, such as litigation (trial matters) have inherently uncertain possible outcomes and no assessment made by us about any outcome of your case case should be construed by you as a guarantee of a result consistent with our assessment.  All assessments made by us about outcomes in your case constitute only our subjective opinion.  They are, however, based upon our education, any research we have done and many years of experience and are given to you in good faith on that basis but they are never to be construed as a guarantee of a result.

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