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Before hiring a lawyer, it is most important to ask good questions to ensure you are choosing the right person for help with your legal issue. This article provides tips on how to find lawyers to interview and a list of questions to ask them.
How to Find and Select Lawyers to Interview
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The decision to hire a lawyer can be expensive. But in some situations, you can make matters much worse if you try to do it yourself instead of using professional legal help. This article will help you identify those legal problems which you might be able to handle yourself from others where it...
There are different types of legal fee arrangements used when hiring a lawyer. It is important to distinguish between them in order to understand what is fair and appropriate. Understanding legal fees and retainer agreements is also essential to managing billing expectations and will help you...
The cost of legal services involves two components – a fee for the lawyer’s time worked on a case and the additional related costs and expenses. Even if a lawyer is retained on a contingency fee (where a client only pays for legal services only after winning a case), the client is still...