How can you telll the difference between a good defence lawyer and a bad one?
Are you posting this from jail?
How can you telll the difference between a good defence lawyer and a bad one?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
- Win/loss ratio
- amount of cases settled vs gone to trial
- willingness to take on difficult cases/ability to win them
- word of mouth from former clients
- ability to listen properly to clients but also professionally call them on their bullshit when applicable
- how much and why prosecutors dislike them
- whether or not they’re licensed to practice
IANAL* and it’s in no particular order, but that should be a pretty good checklist afaik 🤷🏻
*the abbreviation of “I am not a lawyer” as well as the best Isaac Asimov porn parody never made.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are his pants on fire? Likely a good lawyer then.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If he wears a red and white striped club tie in a half-windsor knot, he’s awful.
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
What if they’re not wearing a tie at all?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
gasp
eurodyne@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
How did the case turn out?
Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Donathan Montgomery Augustus Dickle, what did you DO?
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lol in another thread someone said I would ask this question next. So thought it would be funny to make them right.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
A good defense lawyer knows the law.
A great defense lawyer knows the judge.
mmcintyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the right answer.