Typically, you don't need a lawyer. For things that normal people need like wills, you can get them fairly cheap because they are so cookie cutter. Now, for the cases when most people do need legal representation, there are prepaid options and insurance just like for HealthCare. Get in a wreck and get sued, your auto insurance should cover it.
The best way, always, is by direct referral. This is best done when you have time, and talk to your friends & family & extended circle for recommendations. This is why the old adage goes, a smart may knows a sheriff, a lawyer, and a judge. Find a lawyer you like & trust now. The second best way is by indirect referral.
1.) While the theory of the law, the stuff you’ll learn from text books in law school is fascinating, the practice of law is often boring, tedious and unexciting. 2.) In the practice of law, you’ll necessarily have to do things at odds when your personal set of values. Defend someone you think is liable. Sue someone you think isn’t.
Not a lawyer, but this is a pretty meaningless question without knowing where you are, what kind of representation you need, and what the circumstances are. If you're looking for data points, recently, I paid $150 to get a lawyer to send a demand letter and make a 2 minute follow up phone call and agreed to $450/hr in the event the letter and ...
admit to speeding, this seems to be a horrible idea because he may have not had his radar gun on & they can pull you over just because you look like you're driving way too fast merely to their trained eye. If you say you were driving the speed limit but you actually werent, this will offend the officer because you lied to his face.
My parents and I switch cars occasionally. They left a packaged BB gun in the back of the truck ages ago. Suddenly I get a long speech over text to play stupid and tell the police I’m not a criminal if I get pulled over and they find it.
Saw a YouTube video about Tiktok teachers teaching people how to survive a plane crash and a real pilot debunking their tips. Their tips seemed reasonable at face value so a reasonable person may subscribe to their ideas and if their tips ever led to the injury of someone watching can they be liable for the damages?
Hello! This is hypothetical but I was wondering, I am under 18 and live in Ohio. Sometimes my parents go out to the grocery store for example.
Suppose I knew a restaurant that served things like panda or tiger steaks. Would I be committing a crime in ordering it? Or would it just be the restaurant who was committing a crime for serving it?
Is there any way for him to be “re-instated” in August? Or for him to be POTUS again before 2024?
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