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How to Choose a Lawyer

How to Choose a Lawyer

Many of us are lucky enough that we’ll never need a lawyer in our entire lives. However, many more will need an attorney at one point or another, and when that time comes, it’s important to know how to choose a lawyer. Thankfully, the days of throwing open the yellow pages to the attorney pages, shutting your eyes, and pointing to one are long gone. Today, there are a number of valuable resources that will help you choose a lawyer if you find yourself in need of one. Lawyer referral services, online resources, lawyer directories, personal referrals and business lawyers can all be a wealth of information that can help guide you to a lawyer who is right for your situation.

Lawyers and Ethics

 

The term legal ethics in the US is usually associated to lawyers, but to be honest, legal ethics can really be relevant to anyone that is involved in law such as paralegals, as well as other careers that might seem not to relevant like Private Investigators. If you aren’t really familiar with legal ethics, you might think this is a list made up of a bunch of rules that is designed for everyone to follow, but it’s not. In fact, legal ethics are usually written, regulated and designed for and by specific states. This is also the reason why when you practice and pass the Bar Exam for Pennsylvania, you must also take it again to be able to give legal advice or work as a lawyer in another state such as New Jersey. Every single state is completely different and governs their own rules, regulations and guidelines when it comes to rules of ethics. These rules of ethics are for a variety of legal topics including but not limited to: