How to hire a criminal lawyer

It is the right of the parties to apply for a defense lawyer, and a good defense lawyer can get twice the result with half the effort. When choosing a defense lawyer, you should pay attention to the following situations: 1. Pay special attention to which lawyers are good at handling what kind of legal affairs, and try to hire lawyers who are good at or familiar with the legal services involved in disputes. 2. When hiring a lawyer, you must pay attention to the relevant legal provisions of the statute of limitations, and you must hire a lawyer within the statute of limitations, because once the statute of limitations is exceeded, your legitimate rights and interests will not be safeguarded. 3. You must correctly judge and estimate the legal risk commitment made by the lawyer on the matters entrusted to you, and you can't ask the lawyer to make a commitment to the verdict of the case. Because there are many factors that affect the judgment of a case, there are many variables in the process of litigation. As a lawyer, you can only try your best to protect your legitimate rights and interests in the process of agency and defense. 4. When hiring a lawyer, you should also focus on whether there is a conflict of interest between the law firm and the lawyer you entrust, that is, whether the law firm or lawyer you intend to entrust has been entrusted by the other party before. 5. Give full trust to the hired lawyer, state the true situation of the case without reservation, let the lawyer have a correct judgment on the nature of your case, clarify the complicated legal relationship, and clarify the accurate thinking of agency or defense. Legal basis: Article 61 of the Civil Procedure Law, the parties and their legal representatives may entrust one or two persons as agents ad litem.