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Should I first make visiting cards and a small fact sheet about the kind of matters that I do, my experience and my charges, and then go knock on the doors of other individual Advocates/Law Chambers. Introduce myself, hand them my card and fact sheet, and request them to refer work that they may not have the bandwidth to handle by themselves.
For reference I am based in Mumbai, and the lower courts here are spread far and wide without any system of VC hearing. For a lawyer based in one part of town it would be quite difficult to attend matters in different courts on the same day. I could offer to attend matters in different courts and also offer drafting services for lawyers who don't have a large team and are unable to service all the client's work.
Is this a wise way to go about ? Asking for referred work from other lawyers?