The same event can be an accounting matter or a legal one, depending on what is already running and which deadline is ticking. This checklist sorts the order before you spend time on the wrong route.
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If the matter is still about numbers, documents and filings, start with the accounting firm. If a legal deadline, an opposing party, or a document that binds you on signature is involved, start with the law office. When both sides are present — an invitation to meet an officer arising from filed accounts — have both read the same file from the start.
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Still open, and important: Received a summons, a complaint, or a demand letter with a response deadline · About to sign a high-value, penalty-bearing or long-term contract · Scan the originating document in full, including the envelope and date received
Tick what matches your situation. The more ticks here, the more the work starts on the accounting side.
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These involve legal deadlines. A single tick here is reason enough for a lawyer to read the file first.
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Handled separately, these tend to produce answers that contradict each other.
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The more complete this is, the more usable the answer from a single conversation.
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Start with the accountant to trace which filing or entry it relates to, and have the lawyer read the same letter alongside, because the scope of the questions and what you put in writing shape what comes next. If it carries a response deadline, treat it as urgent immediately.
Not every one, but yes when the value is high, penalties apply, the term is long, rights in work or data transfer, or a foreign law and forum govern it. Repeat forms already reviewed can run on the standard template.
It does when something is pending — a document request, or a dispute that relies on figures from the accounts. The handover must be complete with a clear cut-off date so responsibility for each period is unambiguous.
Yes. Reading documents, advising and assembling files run remotely. Where attendance in person is required, we schedule travel according to what the matter needs and tell you in advance.
Tell us which items are still open and we will say what to do first, in the order that avoids repeat work.
