Comment by irishcoffee
11 days ago
I have had the misfortune of hiring many attorneys for a variety of different legal issues. They’re almost always fucking useless.
11 days ago
I have had the misfortune of hiring many attorneys for a variety of different legal issues. They’re almost always fucking useless.
The trouble with lawyers is that their quality varies tremendously but the client has very little ability to tell the difference until after it's too late.
In theory this is why they have to be licensed but in practice that consistently leads to the profession capturing the licensing board and using it for protecting the providers rather than the customers.
Whoever can create an objective way to determine the quality of legal representation is onto a real winner.
I find it near impossible, even as someone with a lot of legal knowledge, to tell whether a lawyer I hire is going to advocate zealously and correctly and comprehensively on my part once I hand over my retainer. They all talk a great game.
Here in the UK we have "Duty Solicitors", who are on-call in the police station should you need them.
Problem is, the pay out from the government for their services is atrocious, so not many are willing to go onto the list. And the ones who are, aren't the good ones.
And that's another advantage corporations have over individuals. If you break the law at scale you can afford to retain lawyers and evaluate them based on past performance.
I can attest to this.
My duty solicitor on the day of my arrest kept making comment that he believed I committed the accused offence (I didn't). Mostly because he didn't understand it it, so that's proof enough it seems.
He then sent me a letter outlining what he understood, which outright stated he believed I did it (again, I didn't). Dropped him like a hot stone when I got charged, and paid for my own. Who after some research was actually half-good.
Then the barrister I had at trial said "You'll likely go down, the judge you have is a bastard, and has sent a lot down", great..
And now when I'm trying to get some reconciliation for all this nonsense. The legal firm I hired to sue, are ignoring my instructions and went for something entirely different and offering a whopping £1000 compensation.
My legal costs alone were many times that