The "three-step inspection method" teaches you how to find the right lawyer.
As a lawyer of "100 expert lawyers' public welfare legal service activities" in Guangzhou, since 20 14, the author has come to the legal service hall of Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Justice for five times to answer legal advice for the citizens. During this period, some citizens talked about not knowing how to find a lawyer. In practice, the author has also met many parties facing this kind of confusion. In view of this, the author talks about his own views on this issue.
It is not difficult to find a suitable lawyer.
At present, the number of practicing lawyers in China has exceeded 297,000, with Guangzhou practicing lawyers 10326. Lawyers are already a large group. You can find a lot of lawyer information through Baidu search or legal websites. You think it is difficult to find a lawyer. In fact, it is not difficult to find a lawyer. What is difficult is not knowing which lawyer is reliable and can really help you.
In fact, it is not difficult to find a lawyer who can help you as long as you master the screening method. Based on my years of work experience and in-depth industry thinking, the author summarizes the "three-step inspection method" for the parties to find suitable lawyers.
Step 1: Investigate the business direction.
Whether it is a lawyer introduced by an acquaintance or a lawyer found online, the first thing to examine is his business direction.
Just as diseases are divided into internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ENT and dermatology, cases are also divided into criminal, civil, commercial and administrative cases, and civil cases can be subdivided into marriage inheritance, traffic accidents and contract disputes. A skilled lawyer will have a choice of business direction, not a "panacea". As the saying goes, "concentration is the only way to be professional."
A key opens a lock. We don't go to a surgeon to see the symptoms of internal medicine, and we shouldn't go to a lawyer who mainly deals with one kind of cases to deal with another kind of cases. Giving a case to an expert lawyer who specializes in a certain business direction is certainly more reassuring than giving it to a "panacea" lawyer who fights various lawsuits. If the business direction of lawyers introduced by acquaintances is wrong, they often fail to achieve satisfactory results, miss the best opportunity to handle cases, and even put the parties, lawyers and referees in an awkward position. Such examples abound in reality.
Of course, you may be worried that lawyers claim to be good at certain types of cases, but this is not the case in reality. In reality, this situation does exist. Even individual lawyers set up multiple websites or print various publicity materials to publicize their specialization in certain cases, which is actually a "panacea". So, how to find out the actual practice direction of lawyers?
Generally speaking, the lawyer's introduction in his law firm official website is more comprehensive. You can check his resume on the website of his law firm to see which field he is a lawyer. Secondly, look at the fields of most cases he has handled and the articles he has written, among which identifying the professional fields of lawyers through cases is the simplest and most effective method.
Step 2: Examine the professional ability.
The parties generally don't know the law, and they don't necessarily know the lawyer industry. It is difficult to judge the professional level of a lawyer directly, and it is even more difficult to distinguish whether the other party is a good packaging person. We can examine a lawyer's professional ability by knowing the cases he has handled and the articles he has written. Successful cases and professional achievements are the best proof of lawyers' professional ability.
A lawyer has a lot of successful cases and professional achievements in a certain field. Basically, it can be judged that this lawyer has solid professional knowledge in this field, rich experience in handling cases and trustworthy professional ability. If he claims to be good at a certain field, but there are not many cases and research articles in this field, then the so-called good at it is doubtful.
Step 3: Examine professional ethics.
In choosing a lawyer, we must not only examine the lawyer's practice level, but also examine the professional ethics. To examine the professional ethics of lawyers, we can start from the following aspects:
First, whether the work is standardized. When negotiating entrustment, a standardized lawyer will never go to court, because the law and practice discipline prohibit lawyers from making promises to the parties about the outcome of the case. Violation of this point shows that this lawyer is a person who knows the law and breaks the law. If you give the case to such a person, the result is hard to say. When signing the entrustment contract, are the entrustment procedures standardized, such as whether there are litigation risk tips in litigation cases, whether to give you copies of the entrustment contract and signed documents, whether the lawyer's fees are uniformly collected by the firm, and whether there are invoices for the lawyer's fees, etc.
Second, whether to brag about the relationship blindly. Lawyers are legal professionals. If the lawyer ignores the law when he receives you, but talks about how he knows someone and prepares for public relations activities, you should be careful. In addition to the other party's questionable professional ethics, the other party is likely to ask for money in various names in the future.
Grasp the essence of lawyer work through various phenomena, and hope that the "three-step inspection method" can help you find a suitable lawyer!