Surprisingly, a large chunk of my friends are civil attorneys, and you know what? They all really care about serving their clients, and view themselves as champions of justice. Sure, there are scummy lawyers, just as their are lousy programmers, but I can't think of a single attorney that I've ever met, who wants to screw his clients over.
Especially in corporate law. If they do a good job at drafting your contracts and defending you in court against copyright infringement suits, you'll come back, and recommend your other business-people friends to that attorney's practice.
Of course, your attorney will want to disembowel the opposing side, but that's what you want.
If you're worried about an attorney, look at their track record; unlike a lot of other professions, you can get all of it from the courthouse in the district where they practice. If you don't know where to start looking for a lawyer, call your local bar association, and ask them for a referral.
Or, if you've got very little money, look at Pre-Paid Legal Services. Yes, yes, it started as an MLM company, which looks pretty scummy, but they actually do provide a very, very useful set of services, and the total cost is less than twenty bucks a month.
It just makes me sad to see lawyers catching all the flack for the problems in our judicial system, when it's our elected officials who created the whole nightmare in the first place.
If you can afford a highly paid professional, sure, it is no problem to ask a lawyer all the time. Operating on a shoestring, the decision comes a little bit harder.
I did not even mean to knock lawyers, maybe they all mean well, but they might be used to a different kind of level for their operation.
Not that I had so much experience with lawyers so far, but so far I found it hard to find good ones. I just happen to have no connections in lawyer circles.
Especially in corporate law. If they do a good job at drafting your contracts and defending you in court against copyright infringement suits, you'll come back, and recommend your other business-people friends to that attorney's practice.
Of course, your attorney will want to disembowel the opposing side, but that's what you want.
If you're worried about an attorney, look at their track record; unlike a lot of other professions, you can get all of it from the courthouse in the district where they practice. If you don't know where to start looking for a lawyer, call your local bar association, and ask them for a referral.
Or, if you've got very little money, look at Pre-Paid Legal Services. Yes, yes, it started as an MLM company, which looks pretty scummy, but they actually do provide a very, very useful set of services, and the total cost is less than twenty bucks a month.
It just makes me sad to see lawyers catching all the flack for the problems in our judicial system, when it's our elected officials who created the whole nightmare in the first place.