Pre-production: How much does the attorney want to be involved?

Fortunately, most attorneys are sophisticated media consumers. Despite the nineteenth century having served the law well for hundreds of years, they know that making video involves more than owning a camcorder.
Often, the earliest questions I ask are, "Have you made media before?" and "How did it go, did you get what you needed for the case?"

One assessment I always make is, "How much attention, patience, cognitive overhead, does this attorney have for creating media for this case?" I'm a producer because I dig almost every aspect of the art and craft. (If I could have someone else wind up the cords and worry about the batteries, it would be perfect.) But the attorney has other stuff to worry about, I guess.

If it's your case, do you want to script it or have me do a rough draft and then consult you?
Do you want to be at the shoots?
Do you like to sit in the edit bay with me or would you rather I just bring you a rough edit and talk about it?
Fortunately for me, motion pictures+sound is potentially one of the most complex artforms, up there with architecture and grand opera. So specialists like me will get paid for keeping all that stuff in my head. But attorney collaboration is crucial.
Finding the right balance of hands-on versus call me when it's done, that's the first task.