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What Type Of Lawyer Do I Need?

Well the first thing you want to do before you hire a lawyer, is you want to sit down and determine what kind of lawyer you're looking for. If it's a divorce case, obviously a family lawyer, if it's a car accident, you want a personal injury lawyer, if someone's died with or without a will, you want a probate lawyer. So the first thing you need to look for is, does that attorney practice in that area of law that you need to hire to help you accomplish your goal. The second thing you need to do, is you need to write down questions that you want to ask that lawyer. What are their fee arrangements? How do they bill? How do you communicate with them? Or you need to write down, you know, what your availability is to be able to pay that lawyer, to be able to work with that lawyer, and get along with that lawyer. The third thing I think I ask all my potential clients is they have to hire their lawyer as they would hire their own family doctor. You're gonna have to like the way they look, you have to like the way they talk, you have to like the surroundings around them, you have to like the offices, because that's somebody you are now going to journey down this road with, this political road, or this legal road, whether it's in a court room or whether it's settled out of court, but you need to have somebody that's supporting you along the way to get accomplished what it is you're there to do, whether it's a settlement on a car accident, or a PI case, like I say, whether it's getting divorced, whether it's going in front of a probate court. I encourage all of my potential clients to interview other lawyers, you want to talk to other lawyers to get a feel for who you're hiring and the job they're going to be doing for you.