Get on good terms with your clients

Our medico-legal work series continues with advice from Michael R. Young on getting your terms of business right from the start – especially your fee requirements.

Terms of business are very important – this document is the contract between you and the instructing solicitor.

Solicitors will instruct you in accordance with the Practice Direction that supplements the Civil Procedure Rules Part 35. If you have not already made yourself familiar with this, then you should do so before you formulate your terms of business.

Sometimes law firms have their own terms of business that they will expect the expert to work under, but you will need to give some thought to having your own terms.