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Hiring a Criminal Defense Attorney - Rule of Thumb #2

By Shawn Matlock

Now that you realize you will have to actually spend money, possibly a lot of money, when you hire a defense attorney, how do you go about actually deciding on the one you want.  Well, the easiest way to go about it would be to flip through the yellow pages and look for the flashiest and biggest advertisement under the attorney section.  Call the attorney up and tell her that you don't have time to go to an appointment, but if you could just relay a few "facts" of the case and hire the the attorney over the phone, that would be great.  This is by far the easiest thing to do.With that said, it is also about the stupidest thing you can do.  For the love of all that is holy, what is the fascination with hiring an attorney, any attorney for that matter, and the yellow pages?  Did I miss the day in law school when they taught the correlation between yellow page listings and actual legal skill?  I wish I had known that because then I wouldn't have studied as hard leaning the little things, like the law, and instead would have just focused on getting the biggest, all-color, pop-up yellow page ad in the phone book...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).