First, consulting a lawyer is like going to see a doctor.
Just as people always go to see a doctor when they are suffering from unbearable diseases, people always think of looking for a lawyer for help when they are desperate. In fact, you should consult a lawyer when your property or rights are infringed or in danger of being infringed. If the trouble is not serious, it's like you're not worried about your health and going to the hospital for routine examination, which is paying for a good mood. If you are really in trouble, the consultation only gets the advice of the lawyer, understands the seriousness of the problem and gets the solution to the problem. Just like finding some serious diseases that endanger life or health through routine examination, we can get help from hospitals or doctors, take measures to avoid serious or fatal diseases, or get timely treatment to restore health. In real life, many people are indifferent when they encounter legal troubles, resulting in the loss of their rights or failure to take necessary measures to get themselves into trouble or trap, which makes the problem a mess. Whenever you encounter a legal problem and you suspect that it will affect your ownership, personal rights or your bright future, you should consult a lawyer.
Lawyer's consulting service is not as expensive as people think. In most cases, lawyers don't charge any fees for simple consultation. And simple consultation doesn't cost too much. By consulting a lawyer, you may be told that you have no special troubles, no legal problems at all, and you don't have to worry about going to court with others, not to mention being pushed to the dock by others, so as to free you from fidgeting and anxiety. This is the purpose of consulting! Of course, consulting a lawyer may cost a lot of money, sometimes even a lot of lawyer's fees, but consulting is still more cost-effective than not consulting. Counseling makes you more confident than those who don't consult. Looking ahead, you may have just paid some legal fees in advance. The parties who have experienced litigation will have this experience, and it is really not a good thing to get themselves into disputes and troubles. By consulting a lawyer, you can get good advice, avoid getting into trouble when problems or disputes do not occur, and avoid spending more manpower, material resources and energy on a marathon lawsuit in the future. Once you have to face a dispute, you can also get a solution to the problem and get rid of it as soon as possible. At least you can get rid of unnecessary troubles and go home happily. The so-called "it is better to plan ahead than to dig wells with thirst."
Consulting a lawyer is like consulting a doctor, and the benefits are often intangible. More often, people don't go to see a doctor because they are sick. It's much better to nip in the bud. Solving legal disputes is strikingly similar to treating diseases. Once a dispute is formed, paying a high price for a lawyer will not help you much, just as not paying attention to prevention will lead to a minor illness, and a minor illness will become a serious illness. Once it is found to be terminally ill, no matter how clever the doctor is, no matter how much the medical expenses are, it is still useless. A man signed a defective contract because he didn't consult a lawyer. Once the seriousness of the problem is discovered, when he is forced to consult a lawyer, he has to pay much more lawyer's fees than the first consultation. More importantly, it affects other businesses. You have to give up a lot of business to deal with a lawsuit that takes a lot of time and energy. If a lawyer had been consulted, all this might have been solved when the contract was signed.
Therefore, although not all problems must be consulted by a lawyer, some problems can even be handled by the parties themselves, and some problems are more effective than consulting a lawyer, but if you can't fully understand the problem and are not sure, you'd better consult a lawyer, and the lawyer's advice will only be beneficial.
Second, hire a lawyer who suits you.
When a person really wants to hire a lawyer to serve himself, the first thing to consider is whether the hired lawyer is suitable for his case. With the specialization of society becoming more and more detailed, the lawyer's business is becoming more and more specialized, and most of the lawyer's business is concentrated or limited to a certain legal field or several related fields. Lawyers have a high reputation and a good reputation, but they are not necessarily very good at dealing with all problems. Hiring a lawyer must not only look at the reputation and credibility of a lawyer. Sometimes it is not necessarily better to hire a well-known lawyer at a high price than an ordinary professional lawyer. The key to choosing a lawyer to handle disputes lies in whether the lawyer is competent to handle cases. The following are the basic conditions for confirming whether a lawyer is competent:
1. Lawyer education: Some lawyers graduated from prestigious law schools, some graduated from second-rate law schools, and some even did not come from law classes. No matter how educated lawyers are, as long as they can't keep up with the development of the law, they may fall behind. However, graduation from different schools has an important impact on a lawyer's social relations, which in turn affects his ability to coordinate and deal with problems.
2. Lawyer's professional expertise: It is unrealistic to expect a lawyer to be proficient in all laws. A lawyer has a high reputation in one field, a profound theoretical foundation and a high level of practice, and may not be competent in another field. You must hire a lawyer who is suitable for handling the disputes you face and a lawyer who specializes in handling your own cases.
3. Lawyer's practice experience: Generally speaking, older lawyers are more experienced than younger lawyers, but age does not determine that lawyers have more advantages and stronger handling ability. Pay attention to the quality of experience, because for some lawyers, experience may mean repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
4. The quality of lawyers' handling cases: Generally speaking, the quality of lawyers' handling cases depends on the success of lawyers' handling cases. If a lawyer often loses cases, it is hard to make people believe that he has a high professional level and rich experience. It is not excluded that in some cases, a qualified lawyer will lose the lawsuit, but a lawyer who often loses the lawsuit must not be a good lawyer.
5. Lawyer's law firm: The lawyer's practice level is closely related to his law firm. Small law firms can only accept general legal services, and their lawyers lack the ability to handle complex legal business and have the advantage of low fees, while large law firms often have experts in various fields, with strong academic atmosphere and great social influence. However, due to its high popularity, advanced office conditions and high quality of personnel, its fees are much higher than those of a few people.
In a word, although some problems don't need to consult a lawyer, and some problems can be handled without hiring a lawyer, if you are in doubt, you'd better consult a lawyer. The key to hiring a lawyer depends on whether the lawyer is competent to handle the case. Sometimes, for an ordinary case, you only need to hire an ordinary lawyer, and you don't need to spend a lot of lawyer fees to hire a "famous brand" lawyer or a "big shot" in the legal field.