How to find a lawyer in a criminal case? How to find the right criminal litigation lawyer? Professional criminal lawyers share it with you!

How to find a lawyer in a criminal case? How to find the right criminal litigation lawyer? Professional criminal lawyers share it with you!

If you have a case that requires you to go to the District Prosecutor's Office or the court, you will definitely want to find an experienced lawyer who can really do his best to assist you!
Our firm completely understands your feelings! Our team of lawyers has handled numerous criminal litigation cases. As a professional and senior criminal lawyer, our firm often sees families and clients hiring the wrong lawyer in many criminal cases. The so-called hiring the wrong lawyer mainly refers to hiring an unqualified or unprofessional lawyer. To be honest, ordinary people may rarely encounter a lawsuit once in their lifetime, let alone a criminal lawsuit. Since it is rare to encounter it, it is difficult to pay attention to and deal with professional lawyers in this area. It is difficult for an ordinary person to understand and pay attention to the experts and doctors in the field of heart disease in China. Therefore, the probability of hiring the wrong lawyer in a criminal case is high, but this is not the most serious problem. The most serious thing is that criminal cases are different from other civil and commercial cases. In other civil and commercial cases, regardless of winning or losing, it is a matter of more or less profit. Once a mistake is made in a criminal case, an innocent person may become guilty and a guilty person. The treatment may be too severe, and a person who could have been released from a detention center or prison early has been in a state of losing his freedom. Even a person who should not have been sentenced to death may have been killed by mistake or in vain. There is a saying that lawyers do not have the power to decide a case, but they have the power to affect the life, death and freedom of others. Lawyers are counselors, strategists, and lobbyists. Although they may not necessarily direct life and death, they can often greatly influence the decision of life and death. The key lies in being able to put forward professional opinions, appropriate plans, and accurate and practical strategies and tactics.
Therefore, our firm is very careful to tell you, clients and their families, how to find the right lawyer when encountering a criminal case. Only finding the right lawyer will help their case.
Let me explain it from several levels below.

1. How to find a lawyer

When ordinary people encounter criminal cases, the only way to find a lawyer is through introductions from acquaintances, including relatives and friends, or by searching directly on the Internet.
The advantages of finding a lawyer through acquaintances are obvious. They are convenient and have a certain basis of familiarity and trust. But criminal litigation is a highly professional matter. If the acquaintance or the lawyer he introduces is very enthusiastic and nice, but he doesn't understand it, he may not be able to solve the problem. To find a lawyer through acquaintances, I suggest that the parties and their families should not be embarrassed, don’t hesitate, and be sure to ask more about the lawyer’s professional scope and what types of cases the lawyer handles more. You can also check online. Check this lawyer to see if he is a professional lawyer in this field and if he has any professional writings and successful cases.
Nowadays, social networks are everywhere. More and more people are looking for lawyers online. A group of lawyers can be found with a cell phone. There is a huge amount of information and there are many lawyers to choose from, but there is also the problem of information explosion. How to find a relatively reliable and professional lawyer on the Internet? First, you need to understand the lawyer’s expertise. Generally speaking, if you are more well-known, I believe you still have a certain degree of professionalism and care about feathers, and you will handle the case more seriously after being appointed. However, perhaps there is no need to go to the most famous super lawyer. If you encounter a criminal case, what kind of lawyer do you need most? You don’t need these seemingly illustrious names and titles, but you need a professional who can solve your problem, is professional enough to find the key points of the case, and is as familiar with the situation and business as a cook and a cow, before confirming the preliminary information. Finally, you can consult the lawyer directly. You can usually judge the lawyer's professionalism and whether he is attentive.

2. Lawyers recommended to avoid

(1) Only understand simple legal provisions, but do not know how they operate in practice

The reason why people seek lawyers is not that they don’t know the legal provisions, but that they don’t know how to use the law and how to use the law to better fight for their rights. The value of a lawyer does not lie in being familiar with legal provisions, but in knowing and being good at using legal provisions to help clients fight for their legitimate rights and interests. In particular, they understand the implementation effects of specific legal provisions in practice and do not just explain the legal provisions. Only those who know how to explain the application of the law from the rigid laws, what the practical insights are, and give suggestions for follow-up treatment are truly experienced professionals. A lawyer who can only read legal provisions is undoubtedly of little value and cannot solve many problems.

(2) Lawyers who charge private fees

If a lawyer says he can handle your case, but does not sign the appointment contract, or privately gives him a personal account number instead of a bank account number for the firm, then you have no relevant protection.
Furthermore, a lawyer has clearly signed a contract with you, and the contract clearly stipulates the rights and obligations of both parties, including attorney fees. But they still come to you in various names to collect fees beyond the contract. Please think about it. This is equivalent to the lawyer being dishonest and not abiding by the agreement between him and you. Such a lawyer, regardless of whether he is professional or not, has a very bad character. has a problem.
More than once, I have encountered inquiries from clients and family members who reported that when they first started looking for lawyers, some lawyers first entrusted the case with a lower legal fee, and then asked them for money in various names. Since the case is already in progress at this time, it may also be a critical period. If you cancel the entrustment, you will have to have a lawyer re-intervene and become familiar with it, and you may miss a good opportunity. If you do not terminate the entrustment, you may continue to incur various expenses. , I don’t want to give it, or I want to turn against you, but I am worried about my own case. All in all, we are in a dilemma.

(3) Charge only if found not guilty!

When almost every family member and client in a criminal case finds a lawyer, they hope that the lawyer will tell them an expected or certain outcome and charge according to the outcome. Their logic is simple. Only in this way can we ensure that lawyers work hard on their cases. Otherwise, if the lawyer makes empty promises and does not promise the results, and charges fees in vain, what if he is deceived?
First of all, criminal case lawyers can never promise the outcome, nor can they charge a fee only if the case is found not guilty. If a lawyer makes such a promise, he himself has violated relevant regulations!
Secondly, the outcome of a criminal case is uncontrollable. Lawyer intervention and effective defense are only one of the factors that affect the outcome of a criminal case. Even if a professional criminal defense lawyer is hired for a criminal case, it only increases the chance of winning, but it does not mean that it will be able to win. A sure win. Therefore, it is conceivable that it is simply unrealistic for a lawyer to charge based on the results.
Finally, the outcome of a criminal case does not come out of thin air, but is determined by the process. If a lawyer charges based on results but does not know how to analyze and judge the case, does not study the law in detail, does not provide professional opinions, and does not continue to work hard on the case, it is like a doctor telling you, don't worry, your illness can be cured by finding me. , but does not prescribe you a prescription, does not track your condition, and does not adjust and determine a treatment plan based on your condition. There is no doubt that this is ridiculous.
Many family members always want lawyers to promise the outcome for them when they encounter criminal cases. What is the outcome? In the end, the case may not go as well as they thought. Often, some family members and clients who have suffered a loss later come to our firm and say, "Lawyer, I found a lawyer before and he charged me based on the results. I thought it was very reasonable. But later I found out that he didn't do anything for my case." , neither working hard nor fighting for it, and very unprofessional. Look, the case is handled so badly now. I regret it so much..." At this time, they wanted to ask me to intervene in the case to save it, but due to the irreversibility of criminal cases, I often When told truthfully about the difficulty, they often come and leave dejected, which is very sad.

(3) Lawyers who do not analyze the case or discuss the law

The so-called lawyers refer to practitioners who have passed the Lawyer College Entrance Examination in accordance with the law, obtained a lawyer certificate, passed lawyer training and joined the Lawyers Association. Therefore, the business scope of a lawyer is to provide legal services. If a lawyer does not talk to you about the law or analyze the case with you, but talks about relationships, then why do you need to find a lawyer? Lawyers need to be subject to various legal restrictions. If you want to find a relationship, there is really no need to go through a lawyer. When a lawyer talks a lot about relationships, it is likely that he is not a professional and needs to be particularly cautious.
Recently, there has been a lot of news about people who are not qualified as lawyers, but they claim to be lawyers, and use this to charge high fees from the public. Cases like this are not common, and they are very insecure for the public.

(5) Lawyers who promise easily

As the old saying goes: A light promise will lead to a low faith. It means that a promise given easily must lack credibility and be difficult to fulfill. All litigation cases require facts and evidence, especially criminal cases. Therefore, the public’s impression of lawyers is generally that they are rigorous and cautious, and they even think that they often act ambiguously. A criminal case has many procedures and many people to handle it. If a lawyer can easily pat his chest and guarantee the client and his family members, please choose carefully. Such lawyers are either liars or they don't understand.

3. How to judge whether a lawyer is professional and trustworthy

(1) Whether you have the ability to analyze the case

A lawyer's analytical skills are extremely important. In a case, ordinary lawyers can see and analyze one, two, three, while professional lawyers can analyze one, two, three, four, five, six, or even seven, eight, nine, and they can also analyze why it is one, two, three, four, five, six. This is skill. Being able to conduct a comprehensive analysis proves that he is thoughtful and sees far ahead. When handling a case, at least the possibility of mistakes being made is less and the possibility of the case being successfully handled is higher.

(2) Experienced but principled

A reliable and professional lawyer, in addition to being experienced and flexible in handling cases, must have his own principles. He will do what he should do, and he will definitely not do what he shouldn't and cannot do. If you meet a lawyer who promises you everything and is willing to discuss everything, he is probably either unprofessional or unreliable. The law itself has many prohibitive provisions. An experienced lawyer should know what the red lines are and understand that the red lines must never be touched.

(3) Be sincere and dedicated, and state truthfully

The difference between criminal cases and other cases is that the parties and their families must trust their lawyers, and they must have a high degree of trust. A trustworthy lawyer should have many trustworthy characteristics. In addition to being professional and sophisticated, he should be as simple as possible as a person. A lawyer who often speaks nonsense words, or makes empty words and arbitrary promises is obviously not worthy of entrustment.

(4) No guarantee

Only a lawyer who does not guarantee can be a good lawyer. A lawyer who randomly packs invoices must not be a good lawyer. In criminal cases, a lawyer who does not guarantee anything shows that he is cautious and rigorous. He is more likely to take the case seriously and is more trustworthy.

Finally, I sincerely hope that if you accidentally encounter a criminal case, you can find the right person and get the matter done. Sometimes it may not be that finding a lawyer is useless, but that the right lawyer is not found. Once you hire the wrong lawyer for a criminal case, not only will it be useless, but it may actually be bad.

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The lawyers of our firm have focused on the field of criminal litigation for many years and have represented many criminal cases that have attracted public attention. They specialize in corruption regulations, violations of banking laws, violations of securities and exchange laws, violations of commercial accounting laws, commercial misappropriation, fraud, forged documents, We provide the highest quality legal services based on our rich experience in matters such as negligent injury, reputational damage, damage, obstruction of official duties, and public danger.

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