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Hiring a Criminal Defense Attorney - Rule of Thumb #3

By Shawn Matlock

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Know what you're buying.  As a good friend of mine has been known to say, the problem with lawyers is that we don't make anything.  We don't grow crops, we don't build cars, nor do we make ballpoint pens.  We don't make anything.  This isn't to say we aren't useful.  Don't believe me?  Go ahead and have those three extra drinks on New Year's Eve and you'll find out just how useful a criminal defense attorney can be.  The criminal defense attorney's usefulness is more akin to a tool.  But with that tool, you should be getting something, right?  There really are three things you are getting when you hire a criminal defense attorney; knowledge, skill, and time.We are perhaps most analogous to that guy on the street from whom you get directions to someplace you've never been...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).

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