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How To Pick An Attorney
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Wake Forest North Carolina
The selection of an
attorney is an important decision. The fees and
attorney charges may be substantial and ongoing.
Therefore, selecting your attorney is an important
decision.
The best way to select an attorney is through a
recommendation of friend or associate who has had
dealings with an attorney. A friend's past experience
with an attorney will indicate if your experience with
an attorney will be a good one. An alternate and
excellent way to select an attorney is through your
local bar association. You can call them and tell them
your legal problem and they will refer you to one or
several attorneys who you can call. Most attorneys will
spend 10-20 minutes on the phone with you to determine
your legal problem and advise of the course of action.
You can call several attorneys who specialize on your
problem and select one based on your conversation and
comfort level. The attorney should state his hourly fee
and most require that a retainer letter be signed and a
retainer (deposit) be paid. Legal fees to you, the
client, are a result of the number of hours required by
the lawyer multiplied by his or her hourly rate. You
should ask for the approximate time it will take to
resolve your case, however the attorney may not be able
to tell you this.
The Yellow Pages and Internet is the final way to
select an attorney. This method is also good in that you
can select an attorney based on upon their
specialization and your particular problem. Attorneys
pay substantial sums of advertising money to be on the
Yellow Pages and many have full or half page ads.
Attorneys need you as much as you need them since they
are profit-motivated individuals and organizations. A
good way to contact an attorney is through e-mail. This
gives the attorney a chance to think about your problem
so that when you have a phone conversation he is
prepared to speak to you.
Depending on your legal problem, you may want to
hire an individual attorney and not a large law firm
where there will be different legal fees for different
attorneys. Be careful if a law firm states different
hourly rates for different legal professionals,
paralegals, associates, partner's and senior partners.
There is no way you can keep track of who puts in how
much time and if all professionals work on your case at
the same time, the hourly rate will be enormous.
To summarize you should be aware of the following when
selecting an attorney:
Select through personal recommendation.
Select from Bar Association referral.
Select based upon your conversation with an attorney and
his specialization in your legal problem. Only hire
attorneys who specialize in your problems.
Select based upon hourly rate. Sometimes the higher the
hourly rate the less the total fee because of an
attorney's competence in dealing with the issues. Stay
away from an attorney who will not give you an hourly
rate in advance or firms that give different hourly
rates for different professionals in the office.
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