REVEALED: 5 THINGS A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN LOS ANGELES DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
While there are many honest criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles, there are a couple of bad eggs among them. These are the attorneys that will over bill you and even end up being completely incompetent when it comes to handling your case.
Here in this article, We will expose 5 dirty secrets that these bad Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys don’t want you to know:
1. THE DOCUMENTS YOU PAY DEARLY FOR ARE NOT PREPARED FROM SCRATCH
Most of the documents that your Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer claim to prepare for you after charging you exorbitantly for are merely an edit of the old template they already have. Instead of charging you for the edit, they will charge you as if they specially prepared your own from scratch.
It’s not wrong or bad to edit an old template to use for a new client. However, it becomes bad when you are charged for developing it from scratch instead of just for the edits.
2. WHILE YOU PAY A LAWYER’S RATE, MOST OF THE WORK IS DONE BY THE STAFF
3. THE FACT THAT ONE WENT TO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL DOESN’T MEAN HE/SHE WILL BE A GREAT LAWYER
Don’t get deceived; having an Ivy League degree doesn’t guarantee that the Los Angeles criminal defense attorney is going to perform excellently. There are a host of very bad lawyers that have Ivy League degrees. So be careful in choosing a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney.
4. THERE’S NO NEED TELLING YOU THAT YOUR LAWYER SCREWED UP IN THE PAST
Most Los Angeles criminal defense lawyers who have had a disciplinary action in the past will not tell you. The question that usually runs through their mind is this: “Why should I tell you when it can mess my chances of you hiring me as your attorney?”
To be on the safe side, they conceal that part of their career.
For you to avoid hiring a lawyer with a poor history, you should take your time to search for the attorney’s record with the relevant state authority. If they have lots of disciplinary actions recorded against them, you should start looking for another criminal defense attorney.
5. ACTING TOUGH WILL NOT HELP YOUR CASE
Many Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys will like to impress you in court with the way they shout down your opponents. This show-off of toughness and aggression will never impress the judge because they don’t take such attorney’s serious; it will only impress you and make you feel like you have hired a great Los Angeles criminal defense attorney. Hiring such criminal defense attorney will only make you pay dearly.
Do not always trust a Los Angeles criminal attorney until you have done a due diligence on them to confirm that they are honest, experienced and have a good record of winning cases. If the result of your due diligence is good enough, you can confidently go ahead and hire him or her.
