Overview Of How To Find A Lawyer
In order to discover how to find a lawyer, you need to consider the options available to you.
The first thing to think about is why you need a lawyer. Do you need someone to deal with documents or do you need someone to solve a problem for you? This post focuses largely on finding and instructing a lawyer who you need to solve a problem.
There are various strategies available:
- Recommendation
- Research
- Ask Oliver Elliot
Perhaps it is no surprise that probably a combination of all four options might be ideal if you have the time. By why?
There is no right or wrong way to find a lawyer. All methods have drawbacks. Ideally, you may want to look to see if you can find a lawyer who can demonstrate a strong track record in the field of law that is relevant to you.
Recommendations When Trying To Find A Lawyer
Everyone loves a recommendation, don’t they? It gives people a feeling of security when a friend or a trusted business contact turns around to you upon hearing of your legal concerns and says:
… speak to xxxx xxxx. Top lawyer in a top firm with an incredible eye for detail, an unbelievable strategist, so responsive they answer the phone to you as you dial the number. I would trust him/her with my life …
With this kind of endorsement, you almost feel compelled don’t you, particularly as you know the next time you meet your trusted friend and they say:
So how did you get on with xxxx xxxxx …
You might feel too embarrassed to say:
I went to Google and plucked one from the top ten of the search results.
Is Recommendation The Right Way To Find A Lawyer?
Well, it depends. The person from whom you sought a recommendation has their own experience of instructing their lawyer which might be a completely different legal issue to the one you face.
The law is vast and there are specialists in every field. Someone who is a specialist in insolvency law may have very limited knowledge of Intellectual Property law.
The extent to which recommendation works may depend on how much information a party has to make a reasonable assessment of your legal issue and how they dealt with their own legal issues. If a person has had their legal issue solved to their satisfaction but they have limited understanding as to what the lawyer did for example, then their recommendation may justify being treated with some caution.
It is probably a good idea if you are relying upon recommendations to get an introduction from another professional person and conceivably another lawyer. The potential win win of this type of recommendation is that you are more likely to obtain a recommendation from someone who may be even more likely to have a good insight into what your legal issue involves and therefore able to refer you to a suitable lawyer.
Google Searches For Lawyers
Increasingly people are taking advantage of searching for specialist services such as that provided by lawyers by doing Google searches.
If you pop your legal question into Google for example only: “defend Liquidator claims” then a series of results will sprout.
You may decide that instructing a lawyer in this way is not however your preferred way of doing things.
Research To Identify The Lawyer You Want
Research is a way in which you might find a lawyer you want to instruct but how?
There are various ways to conduct research into a lawyer you might want to instruct:
- Search the Chambers Directory in respect of a given legal practice area and review their commentaries.
- Google your legal problem and then review blogs or articles written by lawyers to identify a relevant lawyer who has displayed their expertise.
- Search cases in which your type of issue has gone before the courts in Bailii or Find A Case and the law firms instructed will be displayed who you can consider getting in touch with.
Ask Oliver Elliot
Our CEO, Elliot Green, has been instructing lawyers for over 20 years and therefore has come across many lawyers in many different areas of the legal profession. You can ask us to see if we can make a suitable introduction.
Oliver Elliot Observation
When you are looking to find a lawyer, particularly if you are involved in a legal dispute and might find yourself involved in spending considerable sums with lawyers, making a considerable investment of your time and available funds, you may find a combination of all possible ways of finding a lawyer useful. This could enable you to fully explore your options and find it easier to make an informed decision.
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