hello people,
i nneed to know whether the client should request a disk containing the material, or should the new attorney's office make a manual copy in order to have something to work with?

in case, if the departing lawyer is taking the client with him, the old firm gives him the complete original client file and may not want to make a copy for their own archives as proof of what was done on their watch, etc. as evidence against any possible malpractice suit. If the client wants to stay with the old firm, nothing changes from the client's POV except the person he will talk to about his case at that firm will be different.