How to hire a defense lawyer

1, you need to know when you can hire a lawyer. According to the law, a criminal suspect can hire a lawyer to provide him with legal advice and apply for an agent to appeal or accuse him from the day when the investigation organ makes the first inquiry or takes compulsory measures. During this period, the role of hiring a lawyer is not to defend, but to provide effective legal help to criminal suspects who are in trouble and helpless, so that they can understand the legal provisions and their rights they want to know. If the suspect is arrested, the lawyer hired can apply for bail for him to get him out of custody. You need to know how to find the right lawyer. According to the law, lawyers can undertake civil, criminal and administrative cases, that is to say, any practicing lawyer can handle criminal cases. Being able to handle criminal cases does not mean being able to handle criminal cases skillfully. Lawyers are divided into professions like doctors. Some are good at civil economic disputes, while others are good at criminal cases. Lawyers who are good at handling criminal cases will be more comfortable in handling cases because they are familiar with criminal procedures and know more about relevant criminal laws and regulations (because they often handle criminal cases, defense lawyers will have smoother contacts in the corresponding handling organs). You may ask, I have never encountered such a thing in my life. How can I find lawyers who are good at handling criminal cases? Briefly introduce several feasible methods in the past: (1) You can ask your friends if they have any familiar lawyers (such as legal advisers or even private lawyers who have helped friends win lawsuits), and then you can know lawyers who are good at defending through this lawyer; (2) You can go to the law majors of well-known local colleges and universities to find experts and scholars who study criminal law and criminal procedure law (most of these scholars are practicing lawyers). These experts and lawyers have a high theoretical level, and they can often achieve unexpected results in handling cases (such scholars will go to the case-handling organs for professional theory training and teaching, so the contact will be smoother); (3) You can also search for relevant professional lawyers on the Internet, check their professional strength by reading their past case handling results, and then plan to entrust them. You need to know how to negotiate the related expenses with the lawyer. Just like doing business, lawyers have to pay commissions, which is also commonly known as attorney fees. The determination of this fee needs to be negotiated with the lawyer you hired. In practice, criminal cases are prosecuted in stages, including investigation stage, examination and prosecution stage and trial stage, and the trial stage is divided into first instance stage and second instance stage. Generally speaking, you can pay the fees in stages (according to the lawyer's case, you can decide whether to continue to hire this lawyer in the next stage. If the case ends in the previous stage, there is no need to entrust a lawyer), or you can negotiate with a lawyer and pay the fees for several stages at a time (one-time fees are cheaper than phased entrustment). If you have confidence in lawyers, you can consider entrusting them in this way. For handling cases in different places, you must also pay a certain amount of travel expenses. After accepting the entrustment, the lawyer should sign a written entrustment contract with you, and you should sign a power of attorney as the basis for the lawyer to accept the entrustment. After handling the entrustment formalities, you should keep in touch with the lawyer at any time to understand the process of handling the case, and you can attend the trial if necessary. As for those who hire defense lawyers, our laws include these categories, such as criminal suspects, defendants themselves, close relatives and other relatives and friends. In reality, hiring a defense lawyer is also a deep knowledge. If the lawyer is not well chosen, it will not only fail to safeguard the legitimate interests of criminal suspects and defendants, but also harm the interests of employers.