Choosing a great business lawyer?
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at
3:32 pm
I’ve researched cheap diet pills online prepaid legal, that’s not for me. Does anyone have any practical advice to determine an attorney’s track record?
You can check to see if the attorney is listed in Martindale-Hubbell which is one of the older established listing services for attorneys. Their website http://www.martindale.com/home.aspx allows you to search for attorneys by practice area and location. Martindale also has a voluntary rating system, based on peer review, rating lawyers by accumen (A B or C) and also may include an ethics rating (V for high ethics rating). Martindale also has a voluntary client review system. While both to a degree are somewhat self-serving because they are voluntary, there are some objective standards such as minimum number of years of practice required for each rating, and it generally does still require that the lawyer have enough experience working with other lawyers, judges and clients to have gathered enough contacts in the field to have a peer group and client base that holds them in regard.
On the flipside, you can check to see if there is any reason to be wary of an attorney you are considering by checking his or her record with the local and state bar association to see if there have been any complaints filed. Again the mere presence of a complaint or complaints is not necessarily indicative of a bad attorney as some clients simply file a complaint when they are not satisfied with the outcome of their matter even if the attorney bore no fault in the result but it is something you can consider when evaluating an attorney for possible representation of you for your matters.
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