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How Do I Pick an Attorney?

By M. James Jenkins, Esq.

When John's Mother learned he was arrested and placed in jail on a $100,000 bond she didn't know what to do. She had never had any dealings with an attorney before in her life and neither had John who had no criminal history except a couple traffic tickets. She didn't know what she needed to do to help her son who was calling from in the jail begging for her help. For the first time in her life she felt helpless. Does she call a bondsman? Who are they and what do they do? Or does she call an attorney? Where would she find one? She picks up the Yellow Pages and sees page after page of attorneys advertisements, some claiming that they will "fight hard for you" and others ads saying self-serving, aggrandizing statements of what they will do if she hired them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Florida Criminal Law Blog on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).