What happens during my first conversation with you?

00:00During your first conversation with me, I will get some preliminary information from you. As a tech and cyber law attorney, I will ask that you talk me through the timeline of what's been going on, mostly focusing also on some of the newer offenses to make sure there's no statute of limitations issue and that you still can bring a claim forward. I will definitely jump in and interrupt, but you will be starting to give me a timeline of what's been occurring, and I will then guide you, tell you what is relevant, ask you about what might be more relevant to your case. And something I to say as a tech and cyber crime attorney is, don't give me your conclusions. Give me just the facts and information on the paper trail, right? Sometimes I'll have a conversation with someone and they'll say, I was hacked or I was cyber harassed. The issue is I built a team that really focuses on these issues and we are ourselves tech savvy. We want to come to us with conclusions without citing why you came to that conclusion yourself. And for us, for example, as an attorney, I can't go to a judge and say, your honor, my client has been hacked. I have to give the proof and the evidence and I have to know, are you at a point in your stage where you have all necessary proof and evidence for us to move forward? Do we have to help you act in a way to seek that evidence that's necessary? And if so, how and where? Is that something that we do as well? Even if there's an anonymous online act or no worries, there are ways to seek information there. But instead of telling me I was hacked, I'm going to ask that you instead give me the facts on the paper trail. On blank day, I got a two-factor authentication notification that someone was trying to log into my account. Yes, I have that screenshotted for you. On blank day, I got a phishing text and authorization and noticed that someone had logged into one of my accounts. On blank day, I saw that someone was remotely accessing my computer because I got a notification that popped up on my computer asking for my consent for them to do so and I myself never set off that notification. So give me the facts and then we will also help you come to the conclusion. So we'll talk through a bit about the timeline and then I'll give you an idea of what deliverables I think might be necessary, what might be helpful. I might ask you a bit about the offender if about the offender because psychology always plays a role. Obviously, if the offender in your case, more than we do and we never want to put a client in a potentially unsafe situation by going into things blindly or treating your case as if it's not a unique case. This is not one size fits all. We consider all the facts and then we determine the best way to proceed forward with your case. And after, you might get a letter of engagement from us and if you sign it and do what the instructions are asked of you to do, we can proceed forward with your case and start working with you promptly.